The UNP faction led by Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa has decided to legally establish the proposed political alliance with the like-minded parties by changing the name of a political party which is functional at the moment, Daily Mirror learns.

Making a special statement in Parliament yesterday, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa said the support of the legislature was needed to stabilise the economy that suffered a setback due to unsettled bills by the previous regime.

The grandnephew of S. Mahinda Thera of Tibet, Dr. T.R. Gyasto of Gangtok, visited the temple of Sri Sudharmaramaya Maha Bellana in Alubomulla on National Independence Day, to pay homage to his granduncle.

A separate area has been allocated outside the presidential secretariat in close proximity to the Galle Face Green for protestors to carry out protests and demonstrations, police said.

Speaker Karu Jayasuriya yesterday announced the names of the new members who were appointed to two main Parliamentary Committees; the Committee On Public Enterprises (COPE) and the Committee On Public Accounts (COPA). UNP MP Ranjan Ramanayake who is

While the death toll from the deadly coronavirus outbreak climbed toward 500 in the world and confirmed cases worldwide reach 25,000, 15 Sri Lankans were still under medical observation in various parts of the country, Senior Epidemiologist, Dr. Suda

The annexures of the forensic audit conducted on the bond scam was presented to Parliament by Speaker Karu Jayasuyriya today.

Senior economic advisor to Prime Minister, Ajith Nivard Cabraal said he would make a request to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to initiate an independent Police inquiry on the Central Bank bond scam in early 2015 and dealings in the bond market between

While introducing a fast ticket issuing system for tourists and the local community, the Wildlife Conservation Department launched an online E-Ticketing system for Yala National Park.

Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa today assured that daily wage of Rs.1,000 would be given to the estate workers from March 1 as proposed by the government.

SriLankan Airlines today said it is rationalizing services to China in accordance with current market conditions as per its long-held commercial policies, with a temporary reduction of frequencies to several cities.

A Calgary family is facing deportation back to Sri Lanka even though two of their children were born in Canada, CTV News reported on Tuesday.

IGP Pujith Jayasundara and former Defence Secretary Hemasiri Fernando were released on bail by the Colombo Chief Magistrate’s Court a short while ago. The two were granted bail by the Colombo High Court earlier today.

Court of Appeal today (5) dismissed the Writ application filed by former Magistrate Thilana Gamage seeking to transfer his case from the High Court trial conducted by Judge Gihan Kulatunga to another High Court.

Heavy traffic was reported in the Town Hall area and along the Srimath Anagarika Dharmapala Mawatha in Colombo 07 due to a protest march by university students.

Trade union and civil society activist Saman Ratnapriya was sworn in as UNP National List MP in Parliament today. The UNP proposed Mr.Ratnapriya to the parliamentary seat after it fell vacant following the resignation of Jayampathy Wickramaratne.

The UNF Parliamentary Group today approved the appointment of UNP MP Ranjith Madduma Bandara as the General Secretary of the proposed UNP-led alliance.

IGP Pujith Jayasundara, who was in remand custody over the Easter Sunday attacks, was also granted bail by the Colombo High Court today.

A 19-year-old youth was arrested with 70,600 US dollars, which is equivalent to LKR 12,827,977, at an Army checkpoint at Tharapuram, Mannar yesterday.

Former Defence Secretary Hemasiri Fernando, who was in remand custody over the Easter Sunday attacks, was granted bail by the Colombo High Court today.

The death toll from novel coronavirus has climbed to 490 in mainland China, with one additional fatality in Hong Kong and one in the Philippines.

A twitter message in appreciation of the Independence day message of President Gotabaya Rajapakse yesterday at the Independence day celebrations had been released by MP Mangala Samaraweera.

The National Transport Commission (NTC) would introduce another set of classical audio songs and high-quality music video CDs and DVDs to play in buses within the next two months, NTC Director-General commander (Rtd) Mr Nilan Miranda said.

The prices of vegetables that soared high due to the unprecedented rains across the island during the last season, would come down within next ten days due to beginning of harvesting, the All Island Unified Economic Centres and Manning Market Traders

An interesting incident transpired during the proceedings at the Fort Magistrate’s Court yesterday, where two bank officials had been accused of wrongfully confining and intimidating a customer to recover the loan he had obtained by allegedly provi

A week-long general amnesty period has been declared by the Ministry of Defence from February 5 to12, for tri-force absentees to receive a discharge or rejoin to their service.

Speaker Karu Jayasuriya is expected to announce the names of new members, who would be included in the Parliamentary Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) and Committee on Public Accounts (COPA) tomorrow, Parliamentary sources said today.

UNP Member of Parliament Ranjith Madduma Bandara today said his appointment as the General Secretary of the UNP-led alliance was yet to be finalised though he had been named for the post.

The crew, including the Captain of the SriLankan flight UL 1423 that volunteered to operate the airline’s ‘Mission of Mercy’ that brought back Sri Lankan students from Wuhan, China has refused incentives provided to them by the Airlines for the

Power and Energy Minister Mahinda Amaraweera had revoked the decision taken by the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) to impose two-hour power cuts daily, the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) said.