India has said that, from Sunday, it will impose tariffs on 28 US products, including almonds and apples.

Sri Lanka are likely to be hit with an International Cricket Council sanction after failing to fulfil their media duties following Saturday’s damaging World Cup defeat against Australia.

President Maithripala Sirisena called on Asian countries not to allow outside powers to suppress the power of Asia.

The Department of Railways was working on a new strategy to prevent animals colliding with trains.

Sri Lanka is among the front line countries that had effectively controlled the spread of HIV/ AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases like Syphilis and Gonorrhea, said in a seminar yesterday.

The United National Party (UNP) leadership should be changed before the next presidential election, Non-Cabinet Minister Ajith P. Perera said yesterday.

Data Protection Bill which provides measures to protect an individual’s personal data held by banks, telecom companies, hospitals and other institutions will be presented to Parliament in two months time, Non-Cabinet Minister of Digital Infrastruct

In his Poson Day message, Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa said yesterday it was timely for all of us to once again adhere to the great principles of compassion, tolerance and non-violence that Buddhism has endowed us with.

President Maithripala Sirisena is scheduled to address the 5th Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) today in Dushnabe, Tajikistan.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe in his Poson message called for unity and harmony that is essential for building the nation.

Maldivian Parliament Speaker Mohamed Nasheed, who is also the former Maldivian President, said his country requested the world to visit Sri Lanka

Singapore’s Law and Order Minister K. Shanmugam told Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe that Singapore would assist Sri Lanka to establish peace in the Asian region, a statement from the Prime Minister’s office said.

While appreciating the fact that permission had been given to file cases against the suspects of the Central Bank bond scam before a trial-at-bar, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) MP Sunil Handunnetti yesterday said it was not sufficient only to indic

A 31-year-old mother and her two children aged 12 and 13 sustained fatal injuries after jumping onto the railway tracks in Kollupitiya this evening as the Aluthgama bound train from Colombo Fort was approaching, the police said.

The Attorney General’s Department yesterday informed the Supreme Court that there was insufficient evidence to arrest Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU) Deputy Leader Madumadawa Aravinda over the riots at Minuwangoda in May.

The countrywide sale of liquor and all alcoholic beverages will be banned on Poson Poya Day, which falls on Sunday, June 15 and 16, by order of Excise Commissioner General, the department announced.

Two people, who had pledged to National Thowheed Jama’at (NTJ) leader Zahran Hashim to operate as suicide bombers, were arrested in a joint raid conducted by the Terrorist Investigation Division (TID) and the Army yesterday, Police said today.

Police Spokesman Ruwan Gunasekara today said that 102 suspects have been arrested by the police over the Easter Sunday attacks.

Sri Lanka is taking all steps necessary in collaboration with other countries, including India, to ensure the Islamic State or IS doesn’t spread its tentacles in south Asia, the Sri Lankan High Commissioner to India, Austin Fernando, has said.

The Oman Air flight WY 371, which was scheduled to land at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) in Katunayake, was diverted to Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport (MRIA) this morning due to the adverse weather, MRIA Airport Manager, Upali

Health Minister Rajitha Senaratne, who attended a function held at the Negombo Hospital, had to use the back entrance to leave the hospital premises due to a protest staged by a group of people against him.

The Australian Government yesterday reviewed its travel advisory for Sri Lanka and lowered it to ‘exercise a high degree of caution’.

Former Eastern Province Governor M.L.A.M. Hizbullah arrived at the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) to give a statement on the Batticaloa Campus this morning.

A top US government official said the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) assisted the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of Sri Lanka in the analysis of evidence and phone details in connection with the serial bombings on Easter Sunday.

Five terror suspects including Mohamed Milhan, alias Abu Seelan, who were arrested in Jeddah in connection with the Easter Sunday attacks, have been brought back to Sri Lanka by the CID this morning, police said.

Former Eastern Province Governor M. L. A. M. Hizbullah yesterday said National Thowheed Jamaath (NTJ) Leader Zahran Hashim supported President Maithripala Sirisena at the last Presidential Election in 2015 while he had supported former President Mahi

Despite complaints made by a large number of oncologists about the complications a new cancer drug called ’Herticad’ could trigger, the doctors had to use it on patients because the drug had been approved by the National Medicines Regulatory Auth

National Thowheed Jamaath (NTJ) leader Zahran Hashim had provided Moulavi Rashid Mohamed Ibrahim, a suspect in the Easter Sunday attacks, with Rs. 2 million to be used as bail money for the suspects accused of vandalising Buddha statues in Mawanella

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has sought the advice of Attorney General Dapula Livera on the taking over of the controversial Batticaloa campus, known as the Sharia University, to the government.

Sri Lanka’s first satellite Ravana 1, designed and developed by two Sri Lankan research engineers will be released into orbit on Monday, June 17th, Director Communication Engineering (Project Manager Nanosatellite projects) at Arthur C. Clarke Inst