Colombo Chief Magistrate Lanka Jayaratna today permitted the CID to detain and question 12 officers attached to the Police Narcotics Bureau (PNB), who were arrested for alleged drug trafficking, till July 8.

The Trade Unions attached to the Colombo Port had suspended their strike a short while ago following the assurance given by Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa for a meeting.

Sri Lanka has been downgraded by the World Bank to a lower middle income country from an upper middle income one in their latest country classification by income levels released on July 1.

The petition filed by Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB) in the Civil Appellate High Court challenging the Colombo District Court order to refuse issuing an enjoining order regarding the United National Party’s (UNP) decision to suspend the memberships o

The International Rotary Club has donated a fully automated PCR machine to the Medical Research Institute (MRI) of Sri Lanka to expedite the diagnosis process of COVID-19, the President’s Media Division said.

The Cabinet approval was granted to construct the Ruwanpura Expressway linking the southern Expressway from Kahathuduwa - lngiriya- Rathnapura to Pelmadulla with local funds.

A police constable was reported missing after he was snatched away by a crocodile in the Nilwala River this morning, police said.

A four-member committee had been appointed to look into making payment of electricity bills for March, April and May during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown and to submit recommendations to provide concessions to the public, Power and Energy Minister M

Trade Unions attached to Colombo Port today launched a strike with immediate effect over an issue with the Eastern Container Terminal of the Port.

At least 113 bodies have been found after a landslide at a jade mining site in northern Myanmar, officials say.

A total 79 more Covid-19 patients have recovered and been discharged from hospital increasing total recovered cases to 1,827, the Health Ministry.

Russians have strongly supported constitutional reforms that could keep President Vladimir Putin in power until 2036, preliminary results indicate.

Summoning cricketers to the CID without any preliminary investigation conducted by the International Cricket Council (ICC), could bring unnecessary disgrace to the country, former MP Namal Rajapaksa tweeted.

Twelve more officers including an Inspector of Police, a Sub Inspector attached to the Police Narcotics Unit were arrested by the CID for selling a consignment of drugs to a drug dealer, police sources said.

Two accomplices of underworld figure ‘Barrel Sanka’ were arrested in Peliyagoda for possessing heroin, police said.

Sir John Kotelawala Defence University Hospital (KDUH) in Boralesgamuwa has been maintaining an incinerator unit with no Environmental Protection Licence (EPL) or Schedule Waste Management Licence (SWML), an investigation by ’Daily Mirror Eye’ ha

Former Sri Lanka Cricket Captain Kumar Sangakkara arrived at the Special Investigative Unit (SIU) on sports-related corruption, attached to the Ministry of Sports, to give a statement over match fixing allegations made by former minister Mahindananda

Four special SriLankan Airlines aircraft carrying 91 Sri Lankans stranded in three countries due to COVID-19, landed at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA), Katunayake this morning, Airport Duty Manager said.

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has ordered not to use his photographs by candidates contesting the upcoming election in their propaganda campaign, the President’s Media Division said.

The government has sought to diversify its exports to the United States, informed sources said.

Industrial Development Board (IDB) supplied Brass and Copper to ’Colossus’, a company owned by Easter Sunday suicide bomber Insaf Ahmad Ibrahim during the period between 2017 and 2019, although the company had failed to operate within the given c

Sri Lanka should be prepared to face a possible second wave of COVID-19 pandemic without delay, former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said today.

An individual was arrested by the STF personnel with nearly two kilos of ice or methamphetamine at Point Pedro in Jaffna this morning, Police said.

Colombo-Badulla bound night mail train was cancelled today due to two train derailments reported along the mainline, the Railways Control Room said.

Defence Secretary Maj.Gen. (Retd) Kamal Gunaratne, who visited the St. Anthony’s Shrine, Kochchikade, yesterday (July 1), has taken swift measures to strengthen security and also assured to complete the balance reconstruction work of the Shrine, wh

Attorney General Dappula de Livera has approved quarantine health regulations forwarded by Health Ministry to be used at the August 5 General Election, Coordinating Secretary to the AG State Counsel Nishara Jayaratne said.

Foreign Secretary Ravinatha Aryasinha said the current situation provide an opportunity for Sri Lanka to re-orient foreign employment in a post-Covid-19 world, sensitive to the ground realities in both Sri Lanka and the migrant labour receiving count

It was advised to be alert on a new type of swine flu spreading in China, which has the potentiality to develop into a future pandemic, Chief Epidemiologist of the Epidemiology Unit, Dr. Sudath Samaraweera said today.

Grade one, two and all pre-schools would be re-opened on August 10 following the recommendations made by Health Services Director General Dr. Anil Jasinghe, the Education Ministry said today

Colombo Fort Magistrate today rejected the request made by Counsels appearing for Attorney-at-Law Hijaaz Hizbullah, who is currently under detention, to be produced in Courts.