(MENAFN - NewsIn) Colombo, May 5: The High Commissioner of India Santosh Jha undertook an official visit to Eastern Province of Sr Lanka, covering all the three districts, from May 1 to 4.

The Eastern Province holds special significance in connectivity initiatives between India and Sri Lanka, Indian envoy Santosh Jha has said, as he visited the three districts in the province to ...

Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe has pledged to transform the Tamil-dominated Eastern Province, particularly the Trincomalee district, into a multifaceted hub and underscored the need to ...

The provincial council election scheduled for Saturday in war-ravaged eastern Sri Lanka is an attempt by the Colombo government to dress up its military occupation with a democratic façade. The ...

A series of protests in eastern Sri Lanka has heightened communal tensions in the province and throughout the island, further undermining the already shaky ceasefire between the Colombo government ...

A+ A- Xinhua Colombo: A total of 33 people were injured when a bus carrying pilgrims collided with a lorry in Muthur, Trincomalee district, in Eastern province on Saturday, police said.

Normal life was disrupted in Sri Lanka's northern and eastern provinces on Tuesday due to widespread protests by the main Tamil party Tamil National Alliance against a new controversial anti-terrorism ...