The Navy intercepted a fishing dhow carrying six Indian nationals with 2, 379kg of beedi leaves, in northwestern seas of Sri Lanka waters yesterday.

The brother-in-law of National Thowheed Jamaath (NTJ) leader Zahran Hashim was arrested by the Colombo Crime Division (CCD) from Katupotha last night, police said

An Opinion Poll conducted at the Enterprise Sri Lanka exhibition held at Walisinghe Harischandra ground in Anuradhapura showed that 94.35 per cent of people were in favour of the application of Capital Punishment on drug racketeers and rapists.

Plantation Industries Minister Navin Dissanayake has said that the country has so far not had a President hailing from up country though his father came close to becoming one.

UNP MP for Anuradhapura District Chandima Gamage mentioned Public Enterprise Development Minister Lakshman Kiriella as yet another possible presidential candidate alongside Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, Speaker Karu Jayasuriya and Housing, Con

Minister Ravi Karunanayaka hit out at the Central Bank yesterday, comparing its role to that of an economic hitman.

Cinnamon Gardens police are conducting investigations into the loss of Rs. 6 million from the Colombo 7 home of former minister and parliamentarian Rauff Hakeem, a spokesman from Police Headquarters said yesterday.

Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) yesterday said that the government’s move to increase the size of the Cabinet through a parliamentary resolution was unlawful.

Twenty one high-yielding milch cows imported from Australia in 2017 with an effort to boost local dairy production by the government, had been traced with Bovine Viral Diarrhea (BVD) virus infection, it was revealed at the Presidential Commission of

At least 52 prisoners were killed by other inmates during clashes between organized crime groups at the Altamira prison in northern Brazil on Monday, according to prison officials.

One suspect was injured and another escaped during a shoot out incident at the Pinwatte junction at Panadura by an army soldier, after hijacking a van from Mattagoda, Police spokesman SP Ruwan Gunasekera said today.

All Muslim cabinet ministers, deputy ministers and state ministers who resigned from their portfolios recently, were sworn in before President Maithripala Sirisena a short while ago, the Presidential Media Division said.

Filing a writ application in court, the tenth accused in the treasury bond case, Ajahn Punchihewa has stated that he could have given vital information regarding investigations over the bond scam, Mr Punchihewa advised he had information about a pent

All Sinhala and Tamil medium government schools would end their second term for 2019 on Thursday (August 1), the Education Ministry announced today.

Army Commander Lt. General Mahesh Senanayake said that steps had been taken to beef up security in Kandy and the surrounding areas, in view of the Esala Perahera season, to enable the general public to watch the Perahera without any fear .

Director of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Shani Abeysekera has lodged a complaint with the Police against Attorney at Law Manoj Gamage over an alleged threat.

Bodies of twin female infants had been found murdered at a house in Ninthavur, Sammanthurai this morning, the Police said.

Police used tear-gas and water cannon to disperse the protesting unemployed graduates near the Lotus Roundabout a short while ago, police said.

Eight suspects, including mathematics tutor Dinesh Nuwan Amaratunga were further remanded till August 5 by the Attanagalle Magistrate’s Court today.

The Lotus Road in Colombo has been temporarily closed due to a protest staged by a group of unemployed graduates a short while ago, Police said.

The number of deaths among mothers during childbirth has increased in Sri Lanka with 40 deaths from 100,000 live births said Secretary Sri Lanka Medical Association Dr. Kapila Jayaratne.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe is expected to testify before the Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) appointed to probe the Easter Sunday attacks. He is due to appear before it on August 6.

At least three people were killed and eight others were injured when a bus travelling to Jaffna from Colombo collided head-on with a lorry at Mahamalugollewa on the Medawachchiya-Anuradhaura Road last night, police said.

Former Northern Provincial Council Member M.K. Sivajilingam said that Tamils would not support any Sinhalese or Southern-based candidate at the forthcoming presidential election.

The Attorney General has declined to issue a generation license to the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) for the purchase of electricity from a 400-megawatt power plant installed in a Turkish ship citing several procedural defects.

Mayor of the UNP-controlled Matale Municipal Council, Daljith Aluvihare, yesterday complained that he was disgusted with his party because it does not possess proper action to run the country.

Finance Ministry has not given its consent for the proposal by Foreign Affairs Minister Tilak Marapana to appoint Dulmini Attanayake, the daughter of former General Secretary of the United National Party (UNP) as the third secretary in the Sri Lankan

The National Elections Commission has informed the political parties that no fake candidates would be allowed at the forthcoming presidential election and if any candidate is found to be a fake candidate he would be severely dealt with.

The Government had not abandoned enacting of State Lands (Special Provisions) Bill despite the decision given by the Supreme Court on it, Minister of Lands Gayantha Karunathilaka said today.

The Easter Sunday bombings case in Sri Lanka is likely to be the first case for the NIA to probe after Parliament amended an Act empowering it to investigate terror cases abroad, officials said on Sunday, the Times of India reported.