The Cabinet has approved a 4 per cent fare increase to bus tickets with effect from midnight tomorrow, the Transport and...

A man wearing a full face helmet had robbed Rs.1.7 million worth cash from a finance company at Chavakachcheri in Jaffna...

Negotiation on a Sri Lanka-Thailand Free Trade Agreement (FTA) would be concluded by 2020, the Thailand Nation reported ...

Sri Lanka has stopped crude imports from Iran and is actively switching to other crude grades, Petroleum Resources Devel...

The Special High Court today fixed the trial of former President’s Chief of Staff Gamini Sedara Senarath and three...

Chief of the Defence Staff Admiral Ravindra Wijegunaratne, who left for Mexico last week, for an official visit, had arr...

Speaker Karu Jayasuriya informed Parliament yesterday that he summoned IGP Pujith Jayasundara to his office on Monday an...

The government had not taken any decision to hand over the Palaly domestic airport to India or any other country and sai...

State Minister Sriyani Abeywickrame said yesterday TID's DIG Nalaka Silva should be interdicted and arrested immedia...

Parliament erupted in heated arguments today over the alleged plot revealed by anti-corruption movement leader Namal Kum...

The Cost of Living Committee, which met this evening, has recommended to increase a 12.5 kg cylinder of gas by Rs.195. ...

The drastic depreciation of the Sri Lankan rupee against the US Dollar has increased the country’s national debt a...

A Sri Lankan, who was a former diplomat on contract from 2012-2015, has been arrested in Milan but he has no valid Diplo...

The Cabinet had today endorsed a gas price hike of Rs.190 for a 12.5 kg cylinder of gas. ...

Sri Lankan legend Kumar Sangakkara has given some key advice to Pakistan’s rising stars Babar Azam and Usman Khan ...

After the tournament-ending loss to Afghanistan in the Asia Cup 2018, Angelo Mathews rued the errors of the batsmen, put...

Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) Treasurer Dr Nath Wijesuriya has been summoned to the Bribery Comm...

The Sri Lankan rupee today recorded the highest deprecation of Rs.166.64 selling price for US dollar. According to the f...

State-owned Airports Authority of India (AAI) will prepare a detailed project report for development of Palaly airport i...

The Sri Lankan government has ordered the release of all the 173 Indian trawlers confiscated by its navy since 2015 afte...

Two police officers aged 29 and 31were killed when their motorcycle collided head on with a cab in Galgamuwa on the Anur...

Three elephants including a young calf were killed after a herd was hit by the Batticaloa bound train while the elephant...

The United National Party (UNP) Working Committee will soon take vital decisions with regard to the national elections t...

Compared to state institutions, the private entities which come under ‘Public Authorities’ had shown less co...

Afghanistan have on Monday knocked five-time Asian champion Sri Lanka out of the continent’s premier ODI competiti...

While confirming that the entire staff of the Sri Lankan Embassy in Austria including its Ambassador was recalled, Presi...

Indian Minister and animal rights activist Maneka Gandhi has written to Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena reques...

A British man drowns while bathing in the sea off Mirissa with his girlfriend this evening, Kotawila Police said. ...

Namal Kumarage the leading figure of the organization identified as an anti-corruption movement was today questioned by ...

Jaffna Police has initiated an investigation over an incident where a female lawyer has come to the court wearing a sare...

A beggar, who pretended to be dumb, suddenly screaming blue murder when a dog tried to bite him took everyone by surpris...

Two corporals who were among the guests at a wedding reception of an army corporal in Kotawehera had engaged in a heated...