The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) arrested Jeewaka Edirisinghe, Anjalee Edirisinghe Asanka Edirisinghe & Nalaka Edirisinghe, the former directors of Swarnamahal Jewellers Pvt Ltd on the charges of Money Laundering.

A total of 83 Sri Lankan expatriates were among the 331 persons who were tested positive for Covid-19 yesterday, the National Operations Centre for Prevention of COVID-19 Outbreak (NOCPCO) said.

The government has not taken any decision to impose travel restrictions during the Sinhala and Tamil New Year season, Co-Cabinet Spokesman Minister Ramesh Pathirana said.

Sri Lanka will continue using the Astra Zeneca vaccines despite some countries suspending its usage over fears that it causes blood clots.

Sri Lanka have been fined 40 per cent of their match fees for maintaining a slow over-rate against the West Indies in the third ODI in Antigua on Sunday, the ICC said.

The Cabinet of Ministers has granted approval to obtain an aircraft for goods transportation on lease to Sri Lankan Aviation Company Limited.

New laws will be introduced to stop the felling of coconut trees without permission in the future, Plantation Industries and Export Agriculture Minister Ramesh Pathirana said.

Minister of Public Security Rear Admiral (Retd.) Dr. Sarath Weerasekera has said that the proposed face covering ban was for national security purposes only and not against the Islam religion.

The cabinet approval was granted to convert the stocks of paddy purchased from farmers by the Paddy Marketing Board into rice and distribute them continuously through Sathosa branch network.

India’s Adani Ports said it will have a 51% stake in the West Container Terminal (WCT) of the Colombo Port and it had received a letter of intent from Sri Lankan authorities.

As many as 40 countries, a bulk of them from European region, have become signatories to the resolution to be moved against Sri Lanka at the United Nations Human Rights Council either as co-sponsors and additional co-sponsors, making it an uphill tas

The Police Narcotics Bureau (PNB) arrested two suspects with 1kg and 5g of Ice (methamphetamine) in a raid carried out at Dam Street, Pettah in Colombo yesterday (15).

Sri Lanka is considering inviting UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet to Sri Lanka, sources said.

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa wants the Sinopharm vaccine given emergency use approval in Sri Lanka, by expediting the required process.

Emphasising that the Government is determined to implement recommendations of the Presidential Commission that probed the serial bombings on 2019 Easter Sunday, the governing Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) said tangible progress would be visible

Construction of day/night stadia will be an ideal alternative for the youth who are at risk of becoming drug addicts and it will provide a perfect solution to prevent juvenile diabetes, Power Minister Dullas Alahapperuma said.

Replying to the claims that ecological destruction is going on in the Sinharaja Rainforest Reserve due to unauthorised construction of buildings, Chairman of the Central Environmental Authority (CEA), S. Amarasinghe said there are currently no constr

A young student who complained of the unchecked ecological destruction going on in the Sinharaja Forest reserve due to unauthorised construction of buildings in the Sinharaja rain forest environs during a TV programme, was questioned and a her statem

Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa today instructed the heads of banks to focus on granting a grace period instead of taking over the properties of entrepreneurs who were unable to repay their bank loans due to the Easter Sunday attack and COVID-19 pan

The Vatican on Monday forbade blessings of same-sex relationships, contradicting calls for the practice by progressive bishops in Germany and elsewhere, and setting a limit to the conciliatory approach to gay people that has marked Pope Francis’ po

Leader of Opposition and SJB Leader Sajith Premadasa today said his party will hold 200 protests against the sugar scam and the environmental destruction during the coming days.

The Committee appointed to study the report of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry that looked into the Easter Sunday attacks has completed about 80 per cent of its observations on the report and the final report is expected to be handed over with

Five more COVID-19 deaths were reported today increasing the death toll in the country to 532, the Government Information Department said.

The Intelligence unit of the Angunukolapelessa prison detected a mobile phone suspected to have been brought to be given to imprisoned MP Ranjan Ramanayake, Prison spokesman Chandana Ekanayake said.

Referring to a recent alleged abduction of a journalist, SJB MP Dr. Harsha de Silva today questioned whether President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is going to let abductions start again.

Replying to social media reports that health authorities have directed him to home quarantine following his recent visit to a foreign country, Minister Namal Rajapaksa said he is not serving home quarantine.

The Yahapalanaya Government did not make any attempt to find what were being taught at Islamic schools religious schools known as madrasas nor took steps to control them, Education Minister G.L. Pieris said.

The Government says there is no move to ban the hijab as it does not pose a threat to national security.

The Ambassador of Pakistan to Sri Lanka, Saad Khattak today said the likely ban on Niqab in Sri Lanka will only serve as an injury to the feelings of ordinary Sri Lankan Muslims and Muslims across the globe.

Police investigations disclosed that a suspect arrested over drug offence, alleged to have maintained links with an organization that was promoting Islamic extremism, Police Spokesman DIG Ajith Rohana said.