“India a committed partner and a true friend of Sri Lanka. The High Commissioner (Gopal Baglay) handed over 40,000 MT fuel consignment by I...

The World War II-era oil storage facility, with a capacity of nearly 8 million barrels of oil, located in the strategically advantaged port...

Sri Lanka in 2002 entered the original deal with India on the island's most strategic oil storage complex, which was used as a supply base ...

Since 2003, the Lanka IOC, the Sri Lankan subsidiary of India's oil major Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), has the leasing rights to 99 tanks ...

The state-run Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) owes nearly USD 3.3 billion to the two main government banks -- Bank of Ceylon and People'...

Gammanpila told a gathering at the Colombo north suburb of Kolonnawa that talks with the Indian High Commissioner in Colombo on this issue ...

Seeking to dispel concerns that his government is selling state assets to India, China, US and Japan, he said, "We are going to cater to th...

Ranil Wickremesinghe today said Sri Lanka and India have not held any talks on building a sea-bridge and tunnel connecting two countries.

The Sirisena government sees the resolution as its triumph as having been able to prevent an international warcrimes investigation.

Sri Lanka's new government has resumed investigations against members of the Mahinda Rajapaksa regime for alleged misdeeds soon after Monda...

Mahinda Rajapaksa, 69, has shunned politics since his defeat despite demands from supporters to make a comeback.

Udaya Gammanpila from Buddhist nationalist National Heritage Party defected from opposition to become 3rd politician to support Rajapaksa i...

The JHU signed a pact with Maithripala Sirisena, after other opposition groups had entered into a similar pact with the common candidate.

Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) or National Heritage Party said they were quitting the Rajapaksa-led UPFA coalition government.

Sri Lanka's retired Supreme Court judge C V Wigneswaran has dismissed reports that he won the position because of backing by India.

Salman Khurshid telephoned his Sri Lankan counterpart G L Peiris and also raised the issue of 26 Indian fishermen who are in detention.

A coalition partner in the Sri Lankan government said that Colombo should stop according any preferential trade treatment to New Delhi.