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.

The Elections Commission (EC) has written to Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe requesting him to hand over the review into the Provincial Councils Electoral Delimitation Report to President Maithripala Sirisena.

An Israeli spacecraft came within a few kilometers of the historic touchdown bid before it suffered a technical glitch and crashed on the moon surface on Thursday.

The UNP is not against the President’s decision to seek the opinion of the Supreme Court as to when his first term in office expires but he should do so without delay, Digital Infrastructure Development Minister Ajith P Perera said yesterday.

Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday said the allowances given to senior citizens should be increased and these allowances should be sent to their homes directly.

The Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) had neglected submitting some important reports regarding power interruptions and generations to the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL) for a period of nearly one year, PUCSL Director Corporate Communi

The Sri Lanka Tea Board (SLTB) chairman yesterday said Sri Lanka faced a crisis over tea exports to Iran in terms of recovering monies, due to the economic sanctions imposed on Iran.

UNP MP Mujibur Rahaman, in a letter addressed to Speaker Karu Jayasuriya, has requested action against Foreign Affairs Ministry Secretary Ravinatha Aryasinghe whom he had accused of making defamatory references on Mr. Jayasuriya in parliament.

Joint opposition frontline and former minister, Bandula Gunawardena, said the JO would bring a no faith motion (NFM) against Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera claiming that he had misled parliament by presenting inaccurate information, statistics

Former minister and SLFP stalwart S.B.Dissanayaka charged today that Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera has betrayed the country and war heroes to secure a position in the UNO and added the joint opposition would do its utmost to thwart it.