The Lotus Road outside the Finance Ministry in Colombo has been closed due to a protest carried out by a group of disabl...

President Maithripala Sirisena yesterday issued the third gazette over the prorogation of Parliament. The latest extraor...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has crossed the line dividing the demilitarized zone to meet with South Korean President...

Owner of the Horana Rubber Factory, where five workers were killed after being exposed to ammonia gas, surrendered to th...

A suspect connected to the Kotahena shooting incident was taken into custody yesterday by the Colombo Crime Division (CC...

The Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) launched a 24-hour-token strike at Karapitiya Teaching Hospita...

Sri Lanka was ranked 131st in the World Press Freedom Index-2018, going up 10 notches from last year, the index compiled...

The Toronto Maha Vihara Buddhist temple has set up a crowd-funding page to raise funds for the 7-year-old son of Renuka ...

While stating that there is a threat to wildlife in the Yala National Park due to the action of some people, Wildlife Mi...

A British tourist, who was allegedly raped at a luxury hotel in Sri Lanka during a holiday to the island in 2010, had be...

The CID informed Court today that legal preparations are underway in relation with the extradition of former CBSL govern...

The National Freedom Front (NFF) today said it would never allow the JVP proposal on abolishing the executive presidency...

The International Cricket Council (ICC) today granted T20I status to all its 104 member nations – both men and wom...

UNP MP Ravi Karunanayake today said a handful of people who opposed his appointment as the Assistant Leader of the party...

President Maithripala Sirisena today requested the electrical engineers to halt their scheduled trade union action on Ma...

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) today recorded a statement from former SAITM CEO Dr. Sameera Senaratne over ...

The sacred Buddhist relics of Sarnath, India will be sent to Sri Lanka on the occasion of Vesak, the Indian High Commiss...

At least 10 university students including a Buddihist monk were arrested by the Borella Police over attempting to enter ...

Mr. Ajith Basnayake was appointed as SLFP organizer for Gampaha Electorate while Mr. Chaminda Kumara Sudusinghe was appo...

Police used tear-gas and water cannon to disperse protesting undergraduates of the Inter University Bhikku Federation (I...

The UNP Working Committee this morning ratified the names proposed by the United National Party (UNP) politburo for the ...

Retired Navy Lieutenant Millaniyage Samudra Nilupul De Kostha was arrested this morning by the Criminal Investigation De...

Senior UNPer Joseph Michael Perera said today he had resigned from the party's Working Committee as a protest agains...

Beliatta SLFP organizer Eraj Ravindra Fernando, who was involved in the “toy pistol’ case several years ago,...

Perpetual Treasuries Limited (PTL) Owner Arjun Aloysius and its CEO Kasun Palisena, who were arrested by the CID over th...

April 29 and 30 were declared as the Vesak days for this year while the Vesak week was declared from April 26 to May 2, ...

A car had been found floating in the Viyana canal in Mahiyanganaya early this morning and a resident of the area had inf...

The Sri Lankan student who threatened to set off a bomb on board a flight from Melbourne to Kuala Lumpur is due to face ...

The Oman Air Boeing 737 flight which was scheduled to land at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA), Katunayake w...

A man who was in the habit of peddling drugs on the pretext of taking his son to pre-school was nabbed by the police in ...

A thief who had entered a poultry run in a Tea estate in Dumbara braving the rains to steal some fully grown fowls had t...

An interesting incident was reported from Pussellawa where a woman who burst into laughter when she saw the "thieve...