The prevailing outdated administrative system has slowed down the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka’s (HRCSL) performances and outcome which are expected as an independent commission, HRCSL Chairperson Dr. Deepika Udagama yesterday said.

Sri Lanka and Malaysia have agreed to strengthen cooperation in monitoring the waters between the two countries, Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Dr. Wan Azizah Wan Ismail has said.

President Maithripala Sirisena called upon the leaders of the states in the Bay of Bengal Region to take collective steps against drug menace narcotics smugglers use ocean routes for drug smuggling.

Accepting the fact that enforced disappearances had occurred in the country for at least four decades is the only way Sri Lanka can achieve reconciliation, OMP Chairman Saliya Pieris PC said yesterday.

Two accomplices of underworld figure 'Makandure Madush' were nabbed with a T-56 assault rifle and ammunition by the STF during two separate raids at Homagama and Bandaragama on Wednesday night.

Badulla District Parliamentarians, Dilan Perera said today that the 15 SLFP group of rebels are determined to form an SLFP government with other progressive forces by hook or by crook by the next Sinhala and Hindu New Year and put Prime Minister Rani

The joint opposition today charged that the government was frightened about the anti-government protest campaign scheduled for Wednesday and was attempting to sabotage it.

Senior Deputy Solicitor General Haripriya Jayasundara today told Court that there is no legal barrier for former Central Bank Governor Arjuna Mahendran to acquire the documents he sought earlier from the Singapore Interpol relating to the magisterial

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said today that the technology-driven new media including social media is a source of non-traditional threat and becoming a global disruptive force.

The International Cricket Council has granted further six-week grace period to hold Sri Lanka Cricket election after a delegation headed by Sports Minister Faiszer Musthapha beg for more time to sort out issues before going for election.

The interim report of Office on Missing Persons (OMP) will be submitted to President Maithripala Sirisena on September 5 with recommendations including allowances to the family of missing and the freedom to build monument to remember them, OMP Chairm

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today held a bilateral meeting with Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on the sidelines of the BIMSTEC Summit to discuss ways to boost cooperation.

The USS Anchorage- amphibious transport docks- joined the Sri Lankan naval ship ‘Suranimila’ to conduct an exercise at sea in the Indian Ocean, on August 28, the US embassy in Colombo said today.

People’s Bank Chairman Hemasiri Fernando is likely to be appointed as the new Chief of Staff of the Presidential Secretariat next week.

Chinese President Xi Jinping has extended birthday greetings to President Maithripala Sirisena on his 67th birthday to fall on September, 3.

The UN Independent Expert on foreign debt and human rights, Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky, will conduct an official visit to Sri Lanka from 3 to 11 September 2018, at the invitation of the Government, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for H

A 33-year-old man was injured after he was shot at by two men arrived on a motorbike at Jumma Junction this morning, Police said.

Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) General Secretary Ven. Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thera, who was treated at the Sri Jayewardenepura, was transferred to the Prisons Hospital today, Hospital sources said.

The Lotus Road has been temporarily closed due to a protest march carried out by some members of the Missing Persons association, Police said.

New political alliances and formations are common occurrence when the national elections are around the corner.

Two persons died while two others survived when the boat they were in capsized at Jayanthi Yaya reservoir, Punani in Valaichchenai yesterday night.

Sri Lankan cricket's anti-corruption unit detained two Indian spectators on suspicion of match-fixing during a domestic Twenty20 league game, officials said yesterday.

At least 40 per cent of those within the Sri Lanka Army had joined after the end of the war in 2009, Kilinochchi Security Forces Commander Major General Nissanka Ranawana said.

SriLankan Airlines had reimbursed the Sri Lankan Embassy in Russia approximately Rs. 24 million that it had allegedly spent to arrange a get-together organised to provide publicity to the newly appointed SriLankan General Sales Agent (GSA) for Russia

Colombo Fort Magistrate Lanka Jayaratne yesterday told the CID to take steps to arrest former Navy Commander and current Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) Admiral Ravindra Wijegunaratne, if CID had adequate evidence to prove that he had helped suspect, re

The Joint Opposition was attempting to create false ideologies on the matters pertaining to the affairs of the country especially on the Free Trade Agreement between Sri Lanka and Singapore, UNP MP Harshana Rajakaruna said.

The Court of Appeal today deferred for Friday (31) to consider for granting of permission to file an appeal in the Supreme Court against the conviction and the sentence of Ven. Gnanasara Thera by the Court of Appeal on August 8.

A number of cases were waiting to be filed in the recently established Special High Court, against the incidents of financial misappropriation occurred during the incumbent Government’s tenure, MP Susil Premajayantha said today.

Constitutional Council Chairman, Speaker Karu Jayasuriya has summoned National Police Commission (NPC) and the Inspector General of Police Pujith Jayasundara to the Constitutional Council meeting.

The operations of Galaha Divisional Hospital had been suspended because of the damages caused to the hospital after it was attacked by an angry mob yesterday in the wake of the death of a child in the hospital, Provincial Director of Health Services