Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) MPs are to be appointed as electorate organizers in the proposed political alliance led by the United National Party (UNP) ahead of the upcoming presidential election.

The Opposition yesterday claimed that the government had appointed a corrupt and inefficient US citizen as Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) of SriLankan airlines paying a monthly allowance of Rs.3.5 million.

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) yesterday recorded an eight hour statement from Kurunegala DIG Wasantha Kithsiri Jayalath over the alleged sterilization of women by Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, Dr Shafi Shihabdeen of the Kurunegala Tea

Police Headquarters announced a sudden reshuffle on the police top brass last night where senior most officers in charge of Western Province and the Colombo District were transferred elsewhere with immediate effect, in a bid to support probes prescri

Responding to reports about the financial allocation for the renovation of a house belonging to the Public Enterprises Development ministry, Minister Lakshman Kiriella told in Parliament yesterday that it was used by his predecessor Minister Kabir Ha

Angelo Mathews and Lasith Malinga achieved Men’s Cricket World Cup career-bests to set up a thrilling 20-run victory for Sri Lanka over England.

The Parliament today approved the regulations under the Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act to ban three Muslim organisations -- National Thawheed Jama’at (NTJ), Jamathei Millathu Ibraheem (JMI) and Wilayat As Seylani (WAS).

Cut off marks for university entrance for 2019 will be released by the second week of next month, Acting Higher Education Minister Lucky Jayawaradane said today.

The United National Party (UNP) will launch its election campaign from July 1, General Secretary and Minister, Akila Viraj Kariyawasam said today.

UK Minister of State for Asia and the Pacific, Mark Field, has been suspended as a minister after a video showed him pushing a female Greenpeace activist against a pillar and grabbing her neck while she protested at the chancellor’s Mansion House s

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi today thanked President Maithripala Sirisena for his efforts taken to popularise yoga.

The Attorney General Dappula de Livera has requested Chief Justice Jayantha Jayasuriya to appoint a three-member Special High Court Trial-at-Bar over the Welikada Prison riots in 2012.

The US has downgraded Sri Lanka in its annual Trafficking in Persons Report which was released on Thursday.

The Sectoral Oversight Committee (SOC) on Education in its report presented in parliament today recommended that the government should immediately take over the controversial Batticaloa Campus under the provisions of emergency regulations.

The water supply to several areas in suburbs of Colombo would be interrupted for 15 hours from 9.00 am tomorrow (22) till 12.00 midnight owing to a power interruption by the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB), the National Water Supply and Drainage Board

Hearing a plea for Indian citizenship by 65 Tamils from Sri Lanka - the descendants of indentured labourers - the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court has permitted them to submit a fresh application seeking citizenship to the District Collector co

The investor of the Western Automobile vehicle assembly project in Kuliyapitiya is said to be given a deadline of two months to set up the proposed vehicle assembly plant. This was revealed by Development Strategies and International Trade Minister M

The head of the Catholic church in Sri Lanka on Thursday issued a scathing criticism of the government over the Easter attacks that killed more than 250 people, decrying a “total lack of interest” in determining why intelligence reports were igno

Despite the ongoing strike by railway trade unions, nearly 20 trains including nine office trains and the Jaffna-Colombo train (Yal Devi) were operated this morning bringing the office crowd to Colombo, Railways General Manager (GMR) Dilantha Fernand

Ceylon Thawheed Jama’ath (CTJ) General Secretary Abdul Razick who testified before the Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) looking into the Easter Sunday Attacks, yesterday said he had informed Terrorist Investigation Division (TID) about National

The Finance Ministry has sought Cabinet approval for the implementation of a Mass Rapid Transit Project (MRTP) in Colombo connecting the Port City with Negombo through rail links, the Daily Mirror learns.

Sri Lanka Thowheed Jamath (SLTJ) President A. K. Hisham said yesterday he had informed intelligence officers that the mastermind behind the Easter Sunday attacks Zaharan Hashim had come to Akkaraipattu in a Prado a month prior to when the attacks too

Though not officially announced, President Maithripala Sirisena would be the absolute choice of the SLFP as its presidential candidate at the forthcoming polls, UPFA General Secretary Mahinda Amaraweera said yesterday.

Justice Minister Thalatha Athukorala said yesterday that Minister Sajith Premadasa will definitely be the next president of the country and that he would get the blessings of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe in this regard.

Rishwin Ismath, who identified himself as a ’Muslim atheist’, testified before the Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) looking into the Easter Sunday attacks, said yesterday that Islamic school textbooks published by the Education Ministry presc

JVP MP Sunil Handunnetti today alleged that the government was planning to handover the Sewanagala and Pelwatte sugar factories to Minister Daya Gamage through the Revival of Underperforming Enterprises or Underutilised Assets (repeal) Bill.

Considering the recommendations of the “Special Board of Inquiry Appointed to Inquire into the Easter attack on April 21, 2019”, Attorney General Dappula de Livera has directed the acting IGP to initiate criminal investigations against nine polic

Though a 48-hour train strike was scheduled to be launched from midnight today, a tense situation was witnessed at the Fort Railway Station following the cancellation of a number of train services from as early as 7.00 p.m this evening.

The Revival of Underperforming Enterprises or Underutilised Assets (Repealed) Bill passed with amendments in parliament this evening with a majority of 22 votes.

A 32-year-old driver was injured when the police opened fire at a three-wheeler which disobeyed an order to stop in Gampaha this evening, police said.