President Gotabaya Rajapaksa made a sudden inspection visit to Welikada Prison this evening, the President’s Media Division said.

The United National Party (UNP) Working Committee had unanimously approved to appoint MP Ranjith Madduma Bandara the General Secretary of the new UNP-led alliance, MP Sujeewa Senasinghe said a while ago.

A showery and windy condition is expected to enhance temporarily from today ending a period of dry weather, the Department of Meteorology said today.

Fifteen female workers of a garment factory at Yakkala were hospitalised after being exposed to a toxic gas today. The workers were admitted to the Gampaha General Hospital with symptoms of vomiting, itching, headache and dizziness.

A 21-year-old youth was arrested by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) for abusing children online, the Police said.

More than 1,600 people, including students, who had arrived from China and areas affected with new Coronavirus, were being monitored by the Public Health Inspectors (PHIs) throughout the country, Chief Epidemiologist of the Epidemiology Unit Dr. Suda

Movie history was made at the Oscars Sunday as South Korea’s black comedy “Parasite” became the first non-English-language film to win the best picture award, Hollywood’s biggest prize of all.

A Maldivian child is in serious condition after falling from the second storey of a building in Sri Lanka.

The heads of SriLankan Airlines have been summoned by the Committee on Public Enterprise (COPE) on February 19, 2020 to inquire about the controversial deal with Airbbus, its chairman MP JVP MP Sunil Handunnetti said. He said that he has decided to h

Pakistani High Commissioner Muhammad Saad Khattak said he wondered as to why Sri Lanka could not become a developed country like Singapore when it had all the necessary assets and a literacy rate as high as 97 percent.

Reappointed Chairman of Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) and Political Bureau member of Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) Sunil Handunnetti has requested the government to establish a Special Court to inquire into the controversial issues contain

The proposed alliance led by Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa has already been formed lawfully, and it will be announced to the country shortly, a party leader said yesterday.

Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) and Tamil National Alliance (TNA) have not yet decided whether to support the United National Front at the upcoming General Elections or not.

China says that the number of cured patients of coronavirus of is rising and it is fully confident of beating the virus, the Chinese embassy here said in its briefing note.

Ceylon Electricity Board urges consumers to exercise care in using electricity sparingly a month- long drought prevailing in central hill country had caused rapid decrease in water level of the Maussakele and Castlereagh Reserviours .

Prosecuting Former SriLankan Airlines CEO Kapila Chandrasena and his wife for the alleged Airbus fraud would not be sufficient as there was evidence of political patronage for it, a UNP MP said today.

Twenty-one persons including an Army Colonel and two other soldiers were arrested in a joint raid by the STF and the Army for searching gold buried by the LTTE this morning at Kattaikadu in Dharmapuram in Kilinochchi.

The number of coronavirus deaths has overtaken that of the Sars epidemic in 2003. In China’s Hubei province alone, the epicentre of the latest outbreak, the death toll now is put at 780 by regional health officials.

A 42-year-old man was hospitalised after a mortar bullet exploded when he tried to pull it apart at Silawatta Model Village in Mullaitivu yesterday, the Police said.

Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa in an interview with Indian Hindustan Times, has said that India is Sri Lanka’s relation while other nations are friends.

At least 12 people have been shot dead and many injured by a Thai soldier in the city of Nakhon Ratchasima (also known as Korat), police say.

India on Saturday hoped that the Sri Lankan government will realise the aspirations of the Tamil community in the island nation as the issue figured prominently in wide-ranging talks between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Sri Lankan counterpart

Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Jonathan Henick told a group of journalists at American Centre yesterday that counter-terrorism was one of the top priorities of his country’s partnership with Sri Lanka.

The Sri Lankan students, who returned from Wuhan, China and currently quarantined at the Diyatalawa Army Camp are in good health with no signs of any infection by the coronavirus, Army spokesman Brigadier Chandana Wickramasinghe said yesterday.

A top US official said yesterday his country remained hopeful that the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) compact would succeed and was prepared to address any concerns in this regard.

The Sri Lanka’s economy is recovering from the terrorist attacks last April, with GDP growth projected at 3.7 percent in 2020, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said after concluding staff visit to Sri Lanka.

Four teenagers were killed after the cab, they were travelling met with an accident at Malpana on the Digana-Manikhinna road this morning, the Police said.

Two Europeans are among the 14 patients who were hospitalized over suspicions of being infected by the coronavirus, Health Ministry officials said yesterday.

The leaders of the SLPP government invited me on a couple of occasions before the presidential election to join them and accept the law and order portfolio, UNP MP Sarath Fonseka said yesterday.

The Attorney General considers indicting MP Ranjan Ramanayake and former high court Judge Gihan Pilapitiya in the High Court based on the matters that transpired in a leaked phone conversation between them.