COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – The sight of a white van still haunts Poddala Jayantha, a Sri Lankan journalist exiled in the U.S. Eight years after he was abducted in his home country, he says he saw only a ...

The Fareed Uduman Art Forum presented “Van Gogh In Sri Lanka” at its Sky Gallery – a collection of beautifully framed prints of the exact sizes of the originals painted by Vincent Van Gogh. A ...

Sri Lanka’s civil war is officially over, but people are still being “disappeared” – vanishing without a trace, often, allegedly, in the state’s unmarked white vans. After Iraq, Sri Lanka has the ...

The arrest on terrorism charges this week of two well-known human rights activists in Sri Lanka has sent ripples of fear through those who work for justice on the island, even though the two men were ...

An explosion went off on Monday in a van near a church in Sri Lanka where scores were killed the previous day, when bomb squad officials were trying to defuse it. Police had been inspecting the ...

The making of White Van Stories was not a scripted journey. It was rather mystical. Maybe my constant urge to tell stories that otherwise had been forgotten pointed me towards that direction. I was ...

Police in Sri Lanka have launched a search for a lorry and a van believed to be packed with explosives amid fears of further attacks following a series of deadly bombings. The national force has put ...

Sri Lankan foreign ministry, in a statement, said that as of Monday, the number of foreign nationals who have been killed is 31 "It includes, eight from India, six from the United Kingdom, two each ...

Ramasamy Prabagaran's wife and daughter have had no news of his fate Almost three years after the end of the civil war, Sri Lanka is still dogged by allegations of human rights violations. Amid fresh ...