UNP is ready to face any election to be conducted next year, Leader of the House Minister Lakshman Kiriella said.Mr Kiriella said this at a function held to mark the distribution of title deeds to plantation sector workers in the Kandy District on Tu

The US Coast Guard handed over a high endurance cutter to the Sri Lankan Navy in a ceremony presided over by Navy Commander Vice Admiral Sirimevan Ranasinghe and Rear Admiral Michael Haycock of the US Coast Guard in Honolulu.  

The father of leading underworld figure Makandure Madush succumbed to his injuries while undergoing treatment at the Nagoda Hospital yesterday, Police Spokesman Ruwan Gunasekara said.

The mother of underworld gangster know as Keselwatte Dinuka, Renuka Amarasili (53) alias Chooti Amma had been arrested during a raid at Muhandiram Avenue in Colombo 12 with heroin, the Police said.

A noodle-promotion truck was gutted by fire at the Galle Face Green parking lot a short while ago causing heavy traffic.

Five Brigadiers of the Sri Lanka Army had been promoted to the rank of Major General while 25 Lieutenant Colonels had been promoted to the rank of Colonel by President Maithripala Sirisena.

Ten suspects including a Pradeshiya Sabha member of Hingurakgoda had been arrested for allegedly assaulting wildlife officers at the Minneriya National Park, the Police said.

Former Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa arrived at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) unit at the Presidential Commission appointed to investigate financial irregularities that had taken place at SriLankan airlines, SriLankan Catering (

Auditor General Gamini Wijesinghe, who is also the Chairman of the National Audit Commission, said yesterday that he was drawing only a monthly salary of Rs. 69,000 which is sufficient only to foot his monthly electricity and telephone bills.

Clinical waste were dumped behind the Epilepsy centre in Colombo National Hospital since last month causing health issues, Daily Mirror learned.

The charges for registration and issuing of National Identity Cards have been revised with effect from September 1 this year, the Department of Registration Persons said.

Sustainable Development, Wildlife and Regional Development Minister Sarath Fonseka is reported to have been denied security by the Special Task Force (STF) triggering concerns whether it was linked to his criticism of the elite police force in Parlia

The decision to appoint a commission, supposedly for the purpose of solving the salary issues of railway employees, was a tactic to kill time until military personnel sent to India to be trained as train drivers, get back to fill in the void that is

President Maithripala Sirisena does not want, neither does he support former President Mahinda Rajapaksa to return become the Prime Minister of this country, United National Party MP Mujibur Rahman said.

President Maithripala Sirisena will lead the Sri Lanka delegation to the fourth Summit of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC), which will be held from 30-31 August 2018 in Kathmandu, a statemen

A police sergeant was injured when protesting people pelted stones at the police at the Galaha Hospital, Police said.

The Buddha Sasana Karya Sadhaka Mandalaya comprising some 15 prominent Buddhist organizations in a letter to the President has requested him to obtain a comprehensive interpretation of Article 9 of the Constitution and take necessary steps to impleme

Steps have been taken to appoint an additional secretary to each ministry to evaluate and implement bilateral agreements entered into during the President’s foreign visits, the President’s Media Division (PMD) said.

SriLankan airlines has launched a new ‘Ready to Fly’ programme to enhance its world-renowned customer service by providing increased punctuality levels of its flights around the world and requested co-operation from its valued passengers

The Cotton Collection Private Limited announced today that they have divested their shares to ODEL PLC, a subsidiary of Softlogic Holdings PLC from today.

Any Free Trade Agreement including the Sri Lanka-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (SLSFTA) should be a win-win process for the both countries, MP Anura Priyadarshana Yapa said today.

The Minneriya and the Kaudulla National Parks were reopened for tourists this afternoon, the Department of Wildlife Conservation said.

Singapore was committed to the benefit of the common citizen though some forces make misleading statements, Singaporean Foreign Affairs Minister Vivian Balakrishnan had informed Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, sources close to Prime Minister tol

A tense situation had been reported at the Galaha Hospital when a group of people attacked the hospital, after a three- and-half-year-old child died at the hospital, the Police said.

A Five-member Committee, headed by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe had been appointed by Speaker Karu Jayasuriya to review the Delimitation Commission Report on Provincial Councils today.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe met US State Department’s Assistant Secretary Alice Wells on Monday in Hanoi, Vietnam. The PM met with Ms. Wells on the sidelines of the third Indian Ocean Conference and discussed about the situation in the

MK Stalin, son of former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu late Muthuvel Karunanidhi has been elected as DMK president, a post which has been lying vacant since the demise of M Karunanidhi, at the party’s General Council meeting today.

The Japanese government at a cabinet meeting on Tuesday decided to appoint Akira Sugiyama as the new ambassador to Sri Lanka.

The five-member committee chaired by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has been directed to submit its observations and recommendations to Presidenit Maithripala Sirisena in two months ,Provincial, Local Government Sports Minister Faizer Musthapha

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh have stressed the need to establish peace and prosperity in the Indian Ocean Region, sources said.