Sri Lanka today rejected UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet’s proposals to establish an Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Sri Lanka and calling to implement a detailed and comprehensive strategy for th

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet presenting her report to UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka yesterday called on the government (Sri Lanka) to impleme

Former MP, Rear Admiral Sarath Weerasekara making his presentation during a side event at the UNHRC session in Geneva said conspiracy against Sri Lankan army is clear since they are denied Visa to foreign countries, peace keeping slots, just because

Singapore today rejected Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena’s allegation it was sheltering a former central bank chief wanted for fraud, saying Colombo failed to provide documents to support its extradition request.

A man and a woman have been killed when their car collided with a Matale bound SLT bus at Molagoda this morning, the Police said.

Sri Lanka has achieved another legal victory in the case of countervailing duties imposed by the United States (US) against off-the-road (OTR) tires from Sri Lanka, after the US Department of Commerce (USDoC) decided to withdraw an appeal against the

A stock of more than 150 kilograms of Kerala ganja had been recovered by Navy Personnel during an expedition along the Urumalai beach in Mannar today, Navy Media Spokesman Lt. Cdr. Isuru Suriyabandara said.

With the broken down generator of the Noraichcholai Power Plant coming online there won’t be power outages anymore, Ministry of Power and Energy said today.

The Special Task Force (STF) has arrested an organized criminal known as ‘Kaduwela Babi’, an accomplice of underworld criminal ‘Angoda Lokka’, at Pittugala in Malabe last night.

Beliatta UNP Pradeshiya Sabha member Kapila Amarakoon had been hospitalised with gunshot injuries this morning, Police Spokesman Ruwan Gunasekera said.

Religious Leaders led by Archbishop of Colombo Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith is to stage mass protests against drugs in Colombo North on Sunday (March 31).

Singapore-based Silver Park International (Pte) Ltd and Oman’s Oil and Gas Ministry are to begin the construction of US $3.85 billion oil refinery in the Mirijjawila Export Processing Zone (EPZ) in Hambantota this month, which will be Sri Lanka’s

South Africa’s veteran leg-spinner Imran Tahir conceded only five runs in a decisive super over as they beat Sri Lanka in their opening Twenty20 International on Tuesday after both teams had finished their innings with the same score.

President Maithripala Sirisena told the Cabinet meeting yesterday that the fleet of military vessels of the Air Force and Navy had not been replenished for the past four years because of objections raised whenever any procurement was to be made.

The Cabinet yesterday decided to a call for a report within three months on the steps taken to select international experts for a forensic audit on the Central Bank bond scam.

Steps will be taken to provide tabs to primary and secondary students to help their studies in the future, Education Minister Akila Viraj Kariyawasam said at Rathnalankara Maha Vidyalaya in Giriulla.

The committee stage debate on the Budget is continuing in Parliament in violation of Standing Order 121, UPFA MP Bandula Gunawardene said today.

Seventy nine candidates from the 102 applicants have been selected for interviews for the Hangman’s Post, Prisons Commissioner General Jayasiri Vijayanath Tennakoon said today.

In response to Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa calling for the withdrawal of Sri Lanka’s co-sponsorship to the UNHRC resolution, Finace Minister Mangala Samaraweera said today there was no resolution against Sri Lanka in the UNHRC since 2015, b

JVP MP Nalinda Jayatissa said today that some government and opposition MPs were pressuring Excise Department officials to grant licenses to a distillery owned by Arjuna Aloysius to extract toddy from 38,000 coconut trees in Beruwala.

A trishaw driver who had made sexual gestures to a woman who was driving a car on March 15, was remanded till April 1, Police Spokesman Ruwan Gunasekara told Daily Mirror today.

Although the cause for the shutting down of the unit-2 generator at the Norochcholai coal power plant has been identified, it is still to be synchronised with the system which will cause power failures in several areas, Ministry of Power and Energy s

The All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) in its manifesto for the upcoming Indian Lok Sabha polls, had stated that it would urge the centre government to call for an international probe into alleged war crimes during the civil war in the

Police fired tear gas and used water cannons to disperse protesting students outside the University Grants Commission (UGC) a short while ago, police said.

The Colombo Chief Magistrate’s Court today discharged MP Johnston Fernando from the four cases filed by the Bribery Commission in connection with the non-declaration of assets.

A Matara bound train from Kandy had been blockaded by a group of protesters at the Abeygunawardana Crossing in Matara, the control room said.

The Galle Face Road from NSA Roundabout to Lotus Road in Colombo has been temporarily closed due to a protest carried out against the Aruwakkalu Garbage Recycling Plant in Puttalam, the Police said.

Former DIG of the Terrorist Investigation Division (TID), Nalaka de Silva was further remanded until March 26 by the Colombo Fort Magistrate today.

OIC of the Echchanmkulam Police Station in Vavuniya, IP Subhash Kumara Ariyaratne and a police constable have been arrested on charges of aiding treasure hunting in Vavuniya, police said.

Former Navy Commander Admiral Wasantha Karannagoda arrived at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) this morning, for the third day, to give a statement over the disappearance of 11 youth in 2008-2009.