Woman, 31, is reunited with Sri Lankan birth mother on Long Lost Family

A woman who questioned why her Sri Lankan birth mother gave her up when she was just three months old was finally reunited with her on tonight’s Long Lost Family. Yasika Fernando, 31, who lives in London with her husband Tillek and their two young daughters, only discovered she was adopted at the age of 18 when her … Read more

Sri Lankan politician bites into raw fish

‘I appeal to you – eat this fish’: Sri Lankan politician bites into raw fish during bizarre press conference to prove it will not give people coronavirus Former fisheries minister Dilip Wedaarachchi, 63, bit into the medium-sized fish Tens of thousands of tonnes of fish been left unsold after the Central Fish Market The outbreak … Read more

Sri Lankan elephants eating garbage at a refuse facility captured in harrowing images

Wild elephants in Sri Lanka have been found with plastic products and non-digestive polythene in their stomachs after eating rubbish at a dump encroaching on their habitat. Heartbreaking images of the elephants foraging for food on a refuse facility in Oluvil were captured by Jaffna-based photographer Tharmaplan Tilaxan.  The open garbage dump is nestled in the … Read more

Woman who spent life savings on her Sri Lankan husband launches fight to regain assets

A British woman who spent £100,000 on her Sri Lankan husband before he was murdered in an alleged blackmail plot three years ago is fighting to recover her money. Diane Peebles, 61, from Edinburgh, was dubbed the ‘British Shirley Valentine’ after she fell in love with hotel worker Priyanjana De Zoysa, who was 33 years her … Read more

Gordon Ramsay left red-faced on MasterChef after gaffe while praising Dani Venn’s Sri Lankan curry 

Gordon Ramsay left red-faced on MasterChef after he makes a terrible gaffe while praising a contestant’s ‘authentic’ Sri Lankan curry By Kylie Walters For Daily Mail Australia Published: 07:05 BST, 14 April 2020 | Updated: 07:07 BST, 14 April 2020 Gordon Ramsay was a huge hit with audiences when he appeared in the premiere of … Read more

Truth mechanism quorum for finding missing persons to be decided by mid-October, says Sri Lankan diplomat at UN

By: PTI | Colombo | Updated: September 16, 2016 1:18:13 pm Sri Lanka has to respond to the UN Human Rights council resolution adopted in 2014 which called for an independent investigation into alleged war crimes blamed on both the government troops and the LTTE during the country’s civil war.(File) Sri Lanka’s proposed Truth Seeking … Read more