No government has survived in the world by applying censorship on media or imposing laws to control them, Mass Media Minister Dallas Alahaperuma said today.

The government for the first time in history of Sri Lanka has imposed a 25% tax on EPF and ETF profits, Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) MP Dr. Harsha de Silva said.

Uzbekistan Airways, the flag carrier airline of Uzbekistan, will commence operations to Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport (MRIA) tomorrow (9), the Airport and Aviation Services (Sri Lanka) Limited (AASL) said.

The due date for accepting applications from the candidates who are aspiring to sit for the 2021 (2022) GCE Ordinary Level (O/L) examination has been extended until February 17, the Examinations Department Commissioner General L.M.D. Dharmasena said.

Pushpika De Silva’s title as ‘2021 Mrs. Sri Lanka for Mrs. World’ has been denounced, National Director, Mrs. Sri Lanka for Mrs. World Chandimal Jayasinghe, announced.

While admitting that there was a shortage of Rapid Antigen Test kits in the country, State Minister Channa Jayasumana said today Sri Lanka would receive a consignment of 400,000 RAT kits within the next week.

A contraband of Cocaine and a fine variety of Cannabis called ‘Kush’ worth over Rs.19 million, which had been sent through five parcel mails from the United States, Canada and the Netherlands were seized by Customs officials at the Central Mail E

The Navy has auctioned 135 Indian fishing boats that were seized for poaching Sri Lankan waters in the recent months.

A Sri Lankan man has been arrested for allegedly raping a 32-year-old German woman at a hotel in Marine Drive in Kollupitiya.

The United Nations COMTRADE Database has revealed that Sri Lanka had imported plastic goods worth US $ 611.53 million by 2020, Environment Minister Mahinda Amaraweera said.

Members who were appointed to the Committe on Public Enterprises (COPE) and Committee on Public Accounts (COPA) were announced by Deputy Speaker Ranjith Siyambalapitiya today.

Egg prices have been reduced by a huge margin to clear the stocks which were stuck at warehouses due to the recent domestic gas shortage and wheat flour issues in the country, the All Island Egg Producers’ Association (AIEPA) said.

Heated arguments erupted in Parliament today between the government and the SJB with Chief Government Whip Johnston Fernando stating that the Leader of Opposition Sajith Premadasa has launched a battle with MP Patali Champika Ranawaka to secure his p

The Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) has launched an investigation into a complaint against Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa over his personal trip to the Tirupati Temple in India using a private jet last year.

People who got only the two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine are showing a trend of being victims of the virus and there is a clear resistance of getting the third dose due to misinformation spreading among the people, Government Medical Officers’ Ass

The Agreement that was signed to develop the Trincomalee Oil Tank Farm with Lanka Indian Oil Corporation (LIOC) was tabled in Parliament by Energy Minister Udaya Gammanpila a short while ago.

Commissioner of Maldives Police, Mohamed Hameed has revealed that the Maldives Police Service (MPS) is also involved in the probe launched into the death of a Maldivian youth who was reported missing in neighboring Sri Lanka on Friday.

The Special Task Force (STF) of Police has arrested a woman known as Sumedha Samanmali alias ’’Poosi’’, the wife of drugs trafficker ’Army Indika’ with over 1kgs of heroin in Dehiwala.

Whilst it was revealed that there has been 79,904 traffic offences, 461 accidents and seven fatal accidents in expressways in 2021, the Chief Government Whip and Highways Minister Johnston Fernando has instructed Head of Expressway Traffic Police SSP

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has directed the relevant officials to immediately release the containers of essential items held up at the Customs.

Sri Lanka’s World Cup winning captain Arjuna Ranatunga can’t forget his first meeting with India’s Nightingale, Lata Mangeshkar, who at the age of 92, passed away in Mumbai on Sunday.

Senior Leader of Sri Lanka Communist Party D. E.W. Gunasekara said the main large scale rice mill owners were sympathisers of the ruling Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) who purchase and stock 46 per cent of the country’s paddy production and aft

Fisheries Minister Douglas Devananda said he would try to stop unlawful fisheries activities by Indian fishermen in the Sri Lankan waters by somehow or other.

Three persons were buried alive after a mound of earth collapsed on them in Madawala in the Wattegama Police area of Kandy, the police said.

Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) United Trade Union Alliance Convener Ranjan Jayalal said yesterday he believes the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation(CPC) will increase fuel prices in the aftermath of Lanka Indian Oil Company (LIOC) doing it.

Whilst stating that the government has completely lost control of the country’s administration with private companies deciding fuel prices etc, the main opposition Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) today called for an election to determine the pulse of

The case filed against Swiss Embassy employee Ganiya Bannister Francis for allegedly making a false claim that she has been abducted and sexually harassed was today fixed for trial by Colombo High Court.

The Colombo High Court today fixed for February 28 to deliver its order regarding the preliminary objections raised by two accused including former North Central Province Chief Minister S.M. Ranjith Samarakoon in connection with a corruption case fil

Australia will reopen its borders to fully vaccinated tourists from February 21, Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced, ending some of the world’s strictest and longest-running pandemic travel restrictions.

The Court of Appeal today ordered to release Attorney-at-law Hejaaz Hizbullah on bail after nearly two years in detention and remand custody.