Video: Increase salaries of workers: UNP

The United National Party (UNP) today said the government should increase salaries of employees in both the government and private sectors because of the rapidly increasing cost of living.

Pakistan to further broaden ties with Sri Lanka: PM

Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif on Friday said that Pakistan values its relations with Sri Lanka which were characterized by cordiality and friendship and desired to further deepen and broaden these ties through regular contacts and exchange of visits

Vaas threatening detectives: CID

Ex-DIG Vaas Gunawardhana was today ordered to be produced in court on August 26 by the Colombo Fort Magistrate for allegedly threatening investigating officers inquiring into the killing of Mohamed Shiyam

President Rajapaksa to visit Belarus

President Mahinda Rajapaksa will leave for Belarus on Sunday for a three-day official visit.

New Ministry set up under MR

A new ministry to be known as the Ministry of Law and Order had been set up under President Mahinda Rajapaksa in keeping with the recommendations of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC), informed sources said

Video: Fire at CEB warehouse

A fire has been reported from the warehouse of the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB), in Kolonnawa a short while ago. Pictures

Pay more for potatoes and big onions

The Ministry of Finance and Planning today announced that import duty on potatoes and big onions had been increased by five rupees

Bharti Airtel in talks to sell its Lankan operations to Etisalat

Bharti Airtel, the world's fourth largest telecom operator by subscribers, is in advanced discussions to sell off its Sri Lankan operations to Abu Dhabi's Etisalat, said two persons aware of the development

Fonterra suspends operations in SL

Fonterra has temporarily suspended its consumer operations in Sri Lanka blaming the current ''unstable situation'' for the company

‘Madras Café’ banned in Tamil Nadu today

John Abraham starrer and Soojit Sarkar’s directed ‘Madras Cafeé’ faces the heat of the Tamil Nadu students, activists and political parties. The film will see the light of the day today in every part of India except Tamil Nadu.

Man nabbed while renewing passport

A man was detained by the state Immigration Department for attempting to renew his international passport by using the photograph of a Sri Lankan national who resembled him

Hearse door opens and dumps coffin on road

An unusual event occurred  in Kandy last afternoon: The door of hearse belonging to a funeral director in Kandy opened accidentally and the coffin it was carrying (with a corpse inside) fell onto the main road in the heart of Kandy

Mubarak taken from prison to house arrest

Egypt's former president, Hosni Mubarak, left prison Thursday for a military hospital where he'll be under house arrest, state-run media outlet Al-Ahram reported

Faces of suspects seen on CCTV footage

The faces of the five suspects in the Rs.18 million-daylight robbery at the Gampaha Branch of the Merchant Credit of Sri Lanka are clearly visible in the video footage recorded in the CCTV cameras that were installed the lobby area

No decision on level of India’s participation in CHOGM: India

Amid opposition by Tamil parties to Prime Minister’s participation in Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Sri Lanka, government on Thursday said no decision has yet been taken on level of India’s participation in the summit scheduled in November.

No more DCD contaminated products in SL- Champika

No milk powder containing DCD had been shipped to Sri Lanka from 1 June, the representatives of the diplomatic corps of New Zealand had assured the Sri Lankan government PICTURES

Video: Wimal’s party wants Fonterra out

The ‘Lakmawa Diyaniyo’, an ally of National Freedom Front (NFF), today vowed to eliminate Fonterra and its products from Sri Lanka similar to its defeat of terrorism ???

SL court extends remand of 41 TN fishermen

A Sri Lankan court on Thursday extended the judicial remand of 41 Tamil Nadu fishermen till August 29, officials said.

Lankan held for bid to rape 5 year old

A Sri Lankan refugee was arrested Namakkal on charge of attempting to rape a five-year-old girl staying at a refugee camp in Paramathi in the district.

American charged with Lankan wife’s murder

The General Court in Riyadh is looking into the murder of a Sri Lankan national residing in Riyadh after a representative from the Bureau of Investigation and Prosecution charged her husband, a US national, with her murder.

Video: Attempts to disrupt national security revealed-CDS

Chief of Defence Staff General Jagath Jayasuriya said that intelligence agencies in the country had been alerted to the possibility of certain elements attempting to disrupt national security in the run up to the Commonwealth Head of Government Meeting (CHOGM) which would take place in November???

Army Chief receives Weliweriya report

The Report of the findings into the recent Rathupaswala – Weliweriya incidents, complied by a Court of Inquiry (C of I), presided by Major General Jagath Dias, Adjutant General  of the Army was handed over to Army Commander Daya Ratnayake on Wednesday at the Army Headquarters.

Video: Maheepala ensured Noori terror continued- Mithrapala

Deputy Minister H. R Mithrapala today accused the highest ‘Political authority in Sabaragamuwa’ for providing political patronage to former Deraniyagala PS Chairman Anil Champika alias ‘ Athakota’.

Egyptian court orders Mubarak's release

Deposed Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak will leave jail as early as Thursday after a court ruling that jolted a divided nation already in turmoil seven weeks after the army toppled Islamist President Mohamed Mursi

Armed gang get away with Rs.16.8 million worth jewellery

An armed gang that entered a branch office of a leasing company in Gampaha town today is alleged to have robbed the staff of their cash and jewellery.

Seven Bangladeshis posing as monks arrested

Seven Bangladeshis who posed as Buddhist monks were arrested while attempting to illegally migrate to another country via Malaysia, Monitoring Intelligence and Investigation Unit’s Chief Officer Amith Perera said.

3,000 kidney patients in Uva

The Uva Provincial Health Ministry today said it feared that a majority of the 3,000 kidney patients now receiving treatment might be dead within the next six to ten months.

Basil holds talks with British envoy on north

British High Commissioner to Sri Lanka John Rankin held talks with Economic Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa in Colombo today and discussed among other matters the progress of the demining program in the North and East

Bullet in Parliament

UNP MP Ajith Mannapperuma has produced a bullet in the House today, apparently discharged from a weapon used during the incident in Weliweriya on August 1.

No restrictions on Pillay visit-SL

Sri Lanka today said that it had placed no restrictions on the visit of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay and she would be free to meet with any individual or organization she wished.