The mother who confessed to throwing her daughter’s body into the Kala Oya tank after attacking and killing her, was arrested by the police last evening, the police said.

Several heads of governments including Queen Elizabeth II, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Indian President Ram Nath Kovind have extended their wishes on Sri Lanka’s Independence Day, the Presidential Media Unit said.

Google celebrated Sri Lanka’s 71st Independence Day today with a Google Doodle featuring the lion and three colours of the national flag.

President Maithripala Sirisena said today he opposed to forming a new national government with a party that has only one seat in parliament.

Mitchell Starc took his second five-wicket haul in the match to power Australia to a 366-run win in the second test against Sri Lanka at Manuka Oval on Monday and a 2-0 sweep of the series.

Plantation Industries Minister Navin Dissanayake, who is the National Organiser of the United National Party (UNP), said his party had identified three personages – Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, Housing and Construction Minister Sajith P

Celebrating ‘independence’ does not necessarily mean that it has been entirely achieved to the true sense of the word. ‘Independence’ is fully realised only when all human beings in a nation achieve a state of environmental, e

The work-to-rule campaign started by the Customs officials over the replacing of Director General of the Customs Department, Ms P.S.M. Charles, with a retired Navy officer has cost the country thumping Rs 12 billion rupees so far, a spokesman of the

Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa called on the Government on Saturday to be honest and say that that it wanted to increase the number of Ministers without hoodwinking the people by talking about a National Government.

Those who aspired to contest under the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) at forthcoming elections must be subjected to a DNA test to ascertain that they did not have qualities of jumping and flying, TNA MP G. Srinesan said yesterday.

President Maithripala Sirisena said that the common enemies of the progress of national revival were poverty and corruption.

The Government was planning to get the assistance of the three Armed Forces to eradicate the Sena Caterpillar menace, Minister Ranjith Madduma Bandara said.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe had invited all MPs outside the UNF to join in the Government.

Australia declared their second innings against Sri Lanka at 196 for three Sunday after Usman Khawaja hit a century, setting the visitors a massive 516 to win the second Test in Canberra.

Maldivian President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih arrived in Sri Lanka this morning to attend the 71st Independence Day celebrations.

A total of 89 individuals including six women had been arrested for use or possessing narcotic drugs at a party organized through Facebook, at a hotel in Hingurakgoda last night.

Seventy-three Indians have been arrested by the Sri Lankan authorities for violating visa norms this year, officials said on Saturday.

Four Maldivians were arrested for operating a drone camera and video-graphing the Katunayake Airport in the high-security zone last night.

The remains of the two Sri Lankan Peacekeepers, Major H.W.D Jayawickrama and Sergeant S.S Wijekumara, who were killed in Mali, would not be flown down to Sri Lanka on Saturday as earlier scheduled, the Army announced yesterday.

SriLankan airlines is paying Rs.110 million a month for a grounded A330-200 aircraft which it acquired during the cancellation of the lease on three A350-900 airbuses in 2016/2017, the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) into irregularities at

One should go into the field to develop the nation without depending on propaganda, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said. The Prime Minister expressed this sentiment at a ceremony organised to distribute lands in Nikaweratiya.

The Computer Emergency Readiness Team and Coordination Centre  (CERT|CC) had received complaints with regard to 15 incidents where ransoms were demanded via Facebook, Information Security Engineer Ravindu Meegasmulla said yesterday.  

Sri Lankan opener Dimuth Karunaratne was stretchered off in a neck brace after taking a hit from a bouncer by Pat Cummins in the second cricket Test in Canberra on Saturday, Daily Mail said.

The United National Party (UNP) is expected to move a resolution in parliament on February 7 calling for the formation of a national government and thus increase the cabinet of ministers to 48 and the number of deputy, state and non-cabinet ministers

An arrest warrant issued for former Sri Lankan military attaché Brigadier Priyanka Fernando for violating public order after making cut-throat gestures at protesters, has been revoked without a court hearing following UK Foreign Office in

The Opposition yesterday criticized the UNP for making a proposal to form a national government and urged President Maithripala Sirisena not to appoint any more cabinet ministers.

Yesterday’s proposal made by the UNP to form a national government was not only illegal but also outrageous, Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) alleged.

The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) said yesterday the proposed resolution by the United National Party (UNP) to form a national government was only a shameful ploy to increase the cabinet of ministers.

There are no wild animals, wild trees or wild forests as such but only wild politicians and wild people, President Maithripala Sirisena said yesterday.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe had agreed to delay the issuing of a gazette notification pertaining to increasing the daily wage of estate workers upto Rs. 700 to allow negotiations to continue on the issue until a solution is found.