A 21-year-old Dutch youth was killed and his parents and sister were injured in a road accident in Matale on Sunday, NLTimes News reported today.

President Maithripala Sirisena has left for India this morning for a private visit. President Sirisena is scheduled to visit and offer prayers to the Lord Venkateswara Temple at Tirumala tomorrow.

French billionaire François-Henri Pinault said Monday night he and his family will donate 100 million euros to help reconstruct the Notre Dame Cathedral, hours after a catastrophic fire tore through the historic structure, collapsing its spire and c

Four Sri Lankan men who were arrested by counter-terrorism police hours after flying into the country have been released under investigation.

The spire atop the iconic Notre Dame cathedral collapsed amid a devastating fire at the Paris cathedral on Monday, just days before Easter Sunday.

A total number of 941 drivers have been arrested by the police during search operations carried out from 6 am on April 11 to 6 am on April 15 on charges of driving under the influence of liquor, police said.

Two inspectors of police (IP) and eight others were injured when a group of men assaulted them at Batahathara in Kanthale last night, police said.

Four suspects were arrested by the police along with a gem worth Rs.25 million which was stolen from a hotel in Negombo, Police Spokesman Ruwan Gunasekara said today.

Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are all experiencing outages, with users across Europe and Asia reporting issues.

A total number of 237 people have been arrested by the police across the country for driving under the influence of liquor during search operations carried out between 6 am yesterday (13) to 6 am today (14), the Police Media Unit said.

A total of 558 irregular migrants including Sri Lankans were held across Turkey on Friday, security sources said.

While extending greetings to all Sri Lankan people for Sinhala and Tamil New Year, the United States said that it would look forward to building on strong partnership with Sri Lanka and continuing to tackle shared challenges in the year ahead.

The Amnesty International (AI) Organization said that 13 prisoners are at risk of imminent execution in Sri Lanka. In a statement, it said after 43 years without using the death penalty, President Maithripala Sirisena is reportedly planning to execut

The Federal Prosecutor of Germany has filed an alleged war crime case against a 37-year-old Sri Lankan, foreign media reported yesterday.

The government plans to commission the proposed LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) power project in 2021 to add 300 megawatts of electricity to the national grid, a spokesman said yesterday.

Some Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) members are urging Western Province Governor Asath Sally to rescind his letter transferring the Municipal Commissioner V. K. Anura.

Four Sri Lankan men have been arrested at Luton Airport, London, by British counter-terror police on suspicion of being members of a banned organisation, UK’s The Independent news agency reported.

India is hoping to transfer a Dornier reconnaissance aircraft to Sri Lanka in a bid to boost defence collaboration between the two countries, Swarajya news reported yesterday quoting Times Now.

Amid speculation that President Maithripala Sirisena is attempting to strike a deal with a section of the United National Party (UNP) to secure his presidential candidacy, a senior minister said yesterday that it was the Working Committee which would

Election monitors have decided not to hold any more talks with either the government or the various political parties on the failure to hold elections to the seven provincial councils whose term of office has expired.

Sri Lanka is experiencing its highest temperature levels in 140 years, Professor Chandana Jayaratne from the Department of Physics, Colombo University said today.

Roy Samadanam, a Sri Lankan now holding Canadian citizenship said he had filed action in the US against former defence secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa through the International Project for Truth and Justice with the intention of obtaining compensation f

We are not prepared to allow the ’Pohottuwa’ to dominate the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) as anticipated by the members of the Sri Lanka Podujana Party (SLPP), SLFP National Organiser and MP, Duminda Dissanayake said.

The failure to implement the power plants and projects launched by the previous government has plunged the country into a power crisis, former president and Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa said in Hambantota yesterday.

The Department of Government Printing which was under the purview of the Ministry of Defence, has been gazetted under the Ministry of Lands and Parliamentary Reforms today.

Some 245 people had been arrested by the police across the country for driving under the influence of liquor during a 24-hour search operation carried out between 6 am on yesterday (11) to 6 am today (12), police said.

The 21 Sri Lankan fishermen who were detained in the Maldives after they were arrested in late February for trespassing into Maldivian waters, had been released, State Minister of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Development Dilip Wedaarachchi said.

Pope Francis has kissed the feet of South Sudan’s previously warring leaders during a two-day spiritual retreat at the Vatican.

Former defence secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa said today that all steps needed to renounce his US citizenship were successfully concluded while he was in the US.

Former defense secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa returned to the country this morning after a private visit to the USA.