The government should respond to Minister Mangala Samaraweera who had complained to Pope Francis against Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, Joint Opposition MP Wimal Weerawansa said yesterday.

The eastern terminal of the Colombo Port will not be sold to any foreign country, not even to India or Japan, the Ports and Shipping Ministry informed parliament today.

President Maithripala Sirisena said summoning intelligence officers before a Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) and revealing intelligence information before it cannot be approved.

The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) and the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) today discussed the institutional structure of the proposed political alliance to be formed in view of the presidential elections, party officials said.

The Presidential Secretariat (PS) has said necessary action will be taken against those held responsible for the failure to prevent the Easter Sunday attack based on the findings of the committee appointed by President Maithripala Sirisena no sooner

President Maithripala Sirisena has called for an emergency cabinet meeting to be held this evening, sources said.

Heavy rains of up to 200 mm may be expected in districts of Kalutara, Ratnapura, Galle, Matara and Kegalle with the south-west monsoonal conditions gradually establishing over the island, the Meteorology Department said today.

MP Wijeyadasa Rajapaksa has written to Speaker Karu Jayasuriya about an imminent risk to national security.

The indictments against ten suspects including Central Bank’s former governor Arjuna Mahendran, Perpetual Treasuries Ltd., owner Arjun Aloysius and its CEO Kasun Palisena have been prepared and will be filed in the High Court by the Attorney Genera

Communication equipment including 402 brand new iPhones was seized from a house at Eththukala in Negombo today, Police Spokesman Ruwan Gunasekara said.

The Supreme Court today re-fixed the support for granting leave to proceed on June 24 on the fundamental rights violation petition filed by IGP Pujith Jayasundara challenging the action of being sent on compulsory leave.

At least thirty-one people including 26 school children were injured when a ‘Sisu Seriya’ school bus they were travelling in collided head-on with a bus transporting garment employees at Thalgodapitiya in Gokarella this morning, police said.

The SriLankan Airlines has been named as the world’s most punctual airline with 90.75 per cent of its flights in May 2019 being ‘on-time’ throughout its route network, SriLankan Airlines said.

A special traffic plan will be implemented on Sunday restricting vehicular movement in and around Colombo in view of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit, Police said.

There were many among the group who had vandalised the Buddha statues in an around Mawanella, were known to me and when I inquired from them what made them commit this act, they invited me also to join their group, said Mohamed Razik Mohamed Thaslim

The complaints received by the three-member committee appointed to investigate complaints against former Western Province Governor Azath Salley, former Eastern Province Governor M. L. A. M. Hizbullah and former Minister Rishad Bathiudeen had risen to

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his way home from the Maldives, would arrive in Sri Lanka on June 9 and discuss about bilateral cooperation on countering ‘Jihadi terrorism’ among other topics.

The bodies of the two brothers of the alleged leader of the National Thowheed Jamaath (NTJ) Zaharan Hashim, who blew themselves up in the Sainthamarathu Village in Ampara, which were buried at the Ampara General Cemetery, are to be exhumed today (7).

IGP Pujith Jayasundara who testified before the Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) appointed to look into the Easter Sunday attacks yesterday said President Maithripala Sirisena offered him an ambassador’s post and to clear him if he accepts the

A committee comprising medical experts led by the Colombo Chief Judicial Medical Officer will examine the women who lodged complaints against Dr. Mohamed Shafi stating that he had sterilised them, Police Spokesman SP Ruwan Gunasekara said yesterday.

Former Defence Secretary Hemasiri Fernando said yesterday that he did not inform the President on the intelligence information on the imminent suicide attack on Easter Sunday because he assumed that the Firector of the State Intelligence Services (SI

The latest Foreign and Commonwealth Office report of the UK said the human rights situation in Sri Lanka was mixed in 2018 with key concerns including increased inter-communal tensions and slow delivery of key reconciliation commitments.

State Minister Dilip Wedaarachchi today said that UNP is to announce its presidential candidate next Saturday (8) in Anuradhapura in the presence of Minister Sajith Premadasa.

Except for Minister Kabir Hashim, all other eight Muslim ministers have handed over their letters of resignation to the Presidential Secretariat by this evening, sources said.

The UK said today its Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) no longer advised British travellers and tourists against all but essential travel to Sri Lanka.

Legal and administrative steps would be taken by the government shortly to prohibit the import of tree cutting machines, chainsaws, mechanical saws and the carpenter sheds popularly known as ‘wadu maduwa’, in a bid to protect the environment - in

Since armed forces, police and the Civil Defence Force personnel have been deployed for the safety of school children, there is no need of parents to be called to schools to provide security, the Education Ministry said today.

The parliamentary group of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), in a memorandum signed by several MPs, has requested President Maithripala Sirisena to contest the next presidential election.

The interim report of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) appointed to investigate into the acts of corruption and frauds allegedly committed in state institutions during the period from January 15, 2015 to December 31, 2018, was handed ove

GP Pujith Jayasundara, who testified before the select committee appointed to look into the Easter Sunday attacks, today revealed that President Maithripala Sirisena had offered to give him an ambassador’s post if he accepts the responsibility for