After announcing a series of tax concessions by the Government, the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE) has revised the payment for registration and renewal fees of migrant workers with effect from December 1.

The Sri Lanka Government today said that it continues to maintain that Brigadier Priyanka Fernando as a diplomat who was attached to the Sri Lanka High Commission in London is entitled to diplomatic immunity as per Article 31 of the Vienna Convention

More than 1000 Sri Lankan migrant workers have lost their lives during the last three years while working in various foreign countries stated Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBEF) statistics obtained by the Daily Mirror yesterday.

Presidential Commission of Inquiry probing the Easter Sunday attacks has recorded a four-hour long statement from Archbishop Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith for the second day, today.

Mrs. Sri Lanka, Caroline Jurie, was crowned as the Mrs. World 2020 at the Mrs. World Beauty Pageant held at Westgate Las Vegas Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, US a short while ago.

The SLPP will invite new Muslim representatives to join the party before the general elections and have assured equal minority representation in the new cabinet if it wins the general elections next year, Cabinet Spokesperson, Ramesh Pathirana told t

A committee will be appointed on Monday to look into the United National Party (UNP) leadership matter, MP Harin Fernando said yesterday.

At a meeting chaired by Minister Mahinda Amaraweera and held at the Power and Energy Ministry yesterday, it was revealed that a power crisis by April or May next year was inevitable as a result of the delay in constructing the proposed 300 MW-LNG pow

Sajith Premadasa, who was named as the new Opposition Leader, should be given the opportunity of discharging his duties to pave the way for him to function as a member of the Constitutional Council, former UNP General Secretary Tissa Attanayake said

While condemning the series of coordinated bombings that occurred on Easter Sunday, Archbishop of Colombo, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith today informed the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) probing the Easter Sunday attacks, that the country’s S

Former Defence Attaché at the Sri Lankan High Commission in London, Brigadier Priyanka Fernando, was found guilty at the Westminster Magistrate’s Court today for committing public order offences over the ‘throat-slitting gesture’ in London, 20

The SLFP would contest the general election under the SLFP – SLPP led alliance, Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), with the chair as the symbol, Technology and New Inventions State Minister Thilanga Sumathipala said.

The tax relief announced by the government on Wednesday will not apply to alcoholic spirits, tobacco or cigarettes but to essential consumer commodities, Government Spokesman, Minister Bandula Gunawardana said.

The water supply in some areas will be disrupted until the early hours tomorrow due to the breakdown in the supply line in Kotikawatte, National Water Supply and Drainage Board said today.

The Colombo High Court today sentenced an individual who had worked as an accountant attached to a private company, to 367 years rigorous imprisonment for defrauding Rs. 2 million from the company.

Sri Lankan cricket star Muttiah Muralitharan has said Tamil Nadu politicians do not understand the problems of Sri Lankans.

Sixty police officers including four DIGs, seven SSPs, 18 ASPs and 11 SPs have been transferred with immediate effect, the National Police Commission (NPC) advised.

Referring to the spotting of a sea lion in Sri Lanka in the Bambalapitiya area, the Wildlife Conservation Director-General G.C. Sooriyabandara today said it is a rare incident and people should bear in mind not to disturb the creature.

Parliament Secretary General Dhammika Dassanayake has informed the Election Commission about the vacancy left in the 8th Parliament from December 4, after the demise of Ratnapura District Parliamentarian Ranjith Soyza.

Archbishop of Colombo Cardinal MalcolmRanjith arrived at the BMICH a short while ago to give a statement to the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) on the Easter Sunday attack.

Environmentalists are of the opinion that the recent Cabinet decision to allow the transportation of sand, granite and soil without permits will have negative impacts on the environment in both the short and long term.

The government has issued a gazette notification banning the re-exporting of pepper, areca-nut, tamarind, cinnamon, ginger and several other crops with immediate effect.

The Tri Nikayika Tharuna Bikkhu Sangamaya - an organisation of young Buddhist monks representing the three chapters yesterday handed over a petition to the UNP leadership requesting the party not to give nominations to those MPs who had insulted Budd

A snap raid conducted at the Immigration and Emigration Department’s special detention centre in Mirihana last morning had revealed that 30 African nationals in the camp had gone missing.

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is likely to appoint a new presidential commission to continue probing the Easter Sunday terror attacks which will include a member from the Catholic Church, the Daily Mirror learns.

The low-level atmospheric disturbance in the vicinity of Sri Lanka (south of Sri Lanka) and the prevailing showery condition are expected to continue in the coming days. People living along the river banks were asked to be vigilant as there is a floo

The government has given time till the end of this month for all non-career diplomats appointed by the former rule to return to the country, a minister said yesterday.

All four accused in the rape and murder of a Hyderabad veterinarian in India were killed in an encounter with the Telangana Police in the early hours of Friday, the Indian Express reported.

Colombo Chief Magistrate Lanka Jayaratne yesterday ordered seven electronic media institutes to hand over the unedited clips of the video footage of the news conference held by former Minister MP Rajitha Senaratne on the alleged abduction of the Swis

The Tri Nikayika Tharuna Bikkhu Sangamaya - an organisation of young Buddhist monks representing the three chapters - yesterday handed over a petition to the UNP leadership requesting the party not to give nominations to those MPs who had insulted Bu