A 22-year-old youth had fallen to his death from the eighteenth floor of a building under construction at a hotel complex in Galle Face last evening, police said.

The All Island Private Bus Employees Association (AIPBEA) today said that they would launch a 24-hour countrywide token strike with from midnight today against the government decision to increase spot fine up to Rs.25,000.

The US President Donald Trump on Monday branded Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organization, an unprecedented step that raises the specter of retaliation from Tehran in an increasingly tense Middle East.

SLPP Parliamentarian Namal Rajapaksa in a Twitter message said that former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa never received summons of any form as far as he was concerned.

Former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa was served with notice of two separate civil lawsuits against him in California, USA on Sunday, over the assassination of journalist Lasantha Wickrematunga and on behalf of a Tamil torture survivor.

Tough action will be taken against the use of unauthorised lights and horns in vehicles causing noise pollution from July 1, police said.

Mohommad Nazeem Mohammad Faizar (37), one of the two suspects who were deported from Dubai, was arrested by the airport CID this afternoon, police said.

Acknowledging the existence of a grave problem with the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) said today it would not abandon bilateral talks with the party whatsoever but deal with outstanding issues directly.

Ahimsa Wickrematunge, the daughter of slain journalist Lasantha Wickrematunge, has filed a case in the California Court against former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa in connection with the assassination of her father in January 2009.

The Grade 5 Scholarship Examination would not be compulsory anymore and the relevant circular had been issued, Education Minister Akila Viraj Kariyawasam said.

Veteran musician H.M Jayawardena has passed away at the age of 69 while undergoing treatment at the Colombo South Teaching Hospital – Kalubowila a short while ago, Sri Lanka Singers Association (SLASA) President Keerthi Pasquel confirmed.

The European Union (EU) called on the Sri Lankan Government to maintain its moratorium on the death penalty in line with its vote at the 73rd United Nations General Assembly in December 2018.

Minister of Power and Energy, Ravi Karunanayaka said that the power supply island wide will not be interrupted from April 10 onwards.

The Chinese Government will construct 2000 free houses for the benefit of low-income families in Colombo upon a request made by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and Speaker Karu Jayasuriya, a minister said yesterday.

Two more individuals, who were arrested along with notorious drug kingpin Makandure Madush in Dubai, were deported last night, police said.

Indian Defence Secretary Sanjay Mitra arrived in Sri Lanka on a two-day official visit yesterday afternoon.

People were taxed even during the time of King Parakramabahu, although it was criticized today, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said at the 52nd Aluth Sahal Mangalaya at Jaya Srimaha Bodhi in Anurdhapura this morning.

A hotel owner and five women were among ten people arrested by the Police during a raid on a party organized through the Facebook, at Medilla in Tangalle on Saturday night.

The newly constructed Matara -Beliatta railway extension will be vested with the public tomorrow, the Ministry of Transport said.

The Indian Naval Ship (INS) ‘Cora Divh’ arrived at the Trincomalee port on a goodwill visit today, the Navy said.

Speaker Karu Jayasuriya who is in Doha, Qatar had met with Qatar Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani today.

IGP Pujith Jayasundara has been instructed to take stern action against vehicles fitted with horns which cause noise pollution, the Ministry of Defence (MOD) said.

A general amnesty period has been declared to all Sri Lankan Army absentees, enabling them to receive a discharge from service under four categories, the army said.

Twenty-six people were arrested by the STF officers in Kilinochchi when they attempted to migrate to Canada illegally, police said.

The United National Party (UNP) is reported to have submitted the names of six MPs to President Maithripala Sirisena to be appointed as state ministers.

JVP MP Sunil Handunnetti yesterday claimed that a six month’s service extension had been given to People’s Bank General Manager Wasantha Kumara despite the COPE’s instruction to refrain from doing so and urged the government to recover the sala

It was President Maithripala Sirisena who wanted the provincial council elections postponed, UNP MP Hesha Withange told Parliament yesterday.

The government will introduce a micro-finance regulatory authority and formulate a micro-finance framework within three months in a move to protect people faced with issues of micro-finaning, Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera told parliament yeste

Tablet computers will be provided to AL students and those in other grades in the future, Education Minister Akila Viraj Kariyawasam said when addressing the annual prize-giving ceremony of St. Paul’s Girls School in Milagiriya yesterday.

Provincial Council elections had to be postponed because the opposition insisted that the polls should be held under the mixed electoral system, House Leader and Minister, Lakshman Kiriella told Parliament yesterday.