Two suspects were arrested by the Navy and the Sri Lanka Coast Guard when they attempted to smuggle 5.5kg of gold into the country via sea routes in the seas off Karainagar.

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has arrested five people, including a couple in connection with defrauding money by promising employment in Canada, Police said.

US actor Chadwick Boseman, best known for playing Black Panther in the hit Marvel superhero franchise, has died of cancer aged 43.

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa who visited Neluwa-Lankagama on Saturday (29) to get firsthand information of the situation pointed out that the long-felt need of the rehabilitation of the road should be carried out while protecting the Sinharaja Forest

The government is to appoint one time Minister Milinda Moragoda, as Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner of Cabinet rank to India, an official said.

The businessman who was involved in clearing the Anawilundawa Wetland Sanctuary in Mundalama, Puttalam was taken into custody, police said.

State Intelligence Service (SIS) had received information in February, 2019 from an intelligence service of a powerful western country that National Thowheed Jama’at (NTJ) Leader Zahran Hashim was overseas, former SIS Director SDIG Nilantha Jayawar

The Electrical Superintendent at the Kerawalapitya Grid sub-station as well as the Protection Scheme of the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) must take the responsibility for the island wide power outage on August 17, the interim report of the nine memb

Indunil Vajira Kumara alias “Indra”, a shooter of slain underworld figure ‘Samayan’ has been shot dead by the Police, when the suspect attempted to flee the Police custody at Nawagamauwa last night, police said.

The committee which was appointed to study the 19th Amendment and make recommendations for changes to it will submit its report to the Cabinet in two weeks, a source said.

World Bank had predicted that Sri Lanka’ s economic growth would be -3.2 by the end of the year while Asian Development Bank had predicted a negative growth of 6.1 percent, Leader of Opposition Sajith Premadasa told Parliament yesterday.

Parliament yesterday unanimously approved the proposal of Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardene to appoint six working committees.

There has been an error in calculating the amount spent for lunch per MP, Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardene told Parliament today.

MPs such as C. V. Vigeneshwaran will have repent for undermining the status quo of the Sinhalese community, SJB MP Sarath Fonseka said today.

The Export Development Board (EDB) and the Foreign Ministry are working closely together to increase the country’s export revenue and mitigate the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the export industry.

The Vote on Account was passed in Parliament a short while ago without a vote being taken.

Vehicle permit holders are allowed to buy unregistered vehicles locally at the market price through authorized dealers in Sri Lanka with relevant tax concession, the Ministry of Finance announced.

Mayor of Matale Duljith Aluvihare said suspending him from functioning in his post was an act of political victimisation and that it amounted to an excessive use of power on the part of the Governor, and that he filed a petition against it in the hig

While claiming that it was against the Constitution to spend money from the Consolidated Fund without parliamentary approval, National Peoples’ Power leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake said today, the government should present a special motion in Parl

A 29-year-old mother from Pepiliyawala gave birth to quintuplets (5 girls) this morning at the De Soysa Hospital for Women (Teaching), Colombo 08.

Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardane informed Parliament today that Prisons Commissioner General has been instructed to bring Ratnapura District MP Premalal Jayasekara, who was sentenced to death, to attend Parliament sittings.

Sources close to the Japanese Prime Minister say he plans to step down to deal with a health problem.

The STF has arrested an accomplice of organized criminal Janith Madusanka de Silva alias ’Podi Lassi’ with a stock firearms and ammunition at a house at Wathugedara in Ambalangoda.

Colombo High Court today served indictments on MP Rajitha Senaratne and former State Pharmaceuticals Corporation (SPC) Chairman Mohammad Rumi over the ‘white van’ press conference case.

Twenty-one senior police officers including four Deputy Inspector Generals of Police (DIGs) have been transferred with immediate effect.

Former Norwegian peace negotiator Erik Solheim, in a series of tweets, revealed that LTTE Leader Velupillai Prabhakaran had ordered the killing of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.

The 2020 GCE Ordinary Level (O/L) Examination will be held in January 18 to 28 next year, Education Minister Prof.G L Peiris said.

A prison guard attached to the Colombo Remand Prison had been arrested with 94 grammes of heroin in Borella last night.

Only the arrest of National Thowheed Jama’ath (NTJ) Leader Zahran Hashim or the Ibrahim brothers could have prevented the coordinated terror attacks which occurred on Easter Sunday, April 21, 2019, former State Intelligence Service (SIS) Director N

A conman who had cheated an employee at a gold jewellery shop in Negombo by pretending to sell his pawned gold and later escaped with Rs. 300,000 stolen from the jewellery shop was arrested by the Negombo, Kochchikade police yesterday.