Heavy showers above 100mm is predicted in Southern half of the country during the next 18 hours while the most provinces of the island would experience  showers or Thundershowers due to a wavy type disturbance in the vicinity of Sri Lanka, Meteo

Russia may not be happy about the ban of the use of asbestos in Sri Lanka and may have played a hand in tea export ban, Plantation Industries Minister Navin Dissanayaka said today.

President Maithripala Sirisena responding to reports on the alleged deforestation in the Wilpattu reservation said that it was the responsibility of the relevant authorities to immediately inquire into the allegations, the Presidents Media Division s

A first-year undergraduate of the Arts Faculty of the University of Peradeniya was hospitalised following an alleged ragging incident today.

MP Namal Rajapaksa arrived at the Organised Crimes Prevention Division today to record a statement over an alleged incident of scolding an FCID officer.

A Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seeker has become the first person slated for deportation from Australia– without having his claim for protection even assessed – after falling foul of the ministerial deadline of October 01 to apply, the Guardia

The North-East monsoon has resulted in heavy rains over the central hills from yesterday, the Meteorology Department said.

Five Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) candidates today filed a petition in the Court of Appeal over the rejection of the SLPP’s nomination list for the Maharagama Urban Council.

The Indian Oil Company’s imported stock of suspicious “Jet A1” Aviation fuel which failed the first quality check has met standards set by the CPC during the second fuel sample testing, the Petroleum Resources Development Ministry s

The North East Monsoon over the island will bring rains over several parts of the island, the Department of Meteorology said yesterday and added that rains were expected to continue in the Northern, North-Central, Eastern and Uva Province.

The Cabinet yesterday decided to relax the ban imposed on the use of Asbestos roofing materials imported from Russia amid reports that the Russian Federation had allegedly retaliated by suspending tea imports from Sri Lanka.

The entire country should urge the government to hand over the SriLankan Airlines to the AirAsia which is a low-cost Airline as the national carrier is a financial burden to the country, Minister Champika Ranawaka said yesterday.

The Presidential Committee reviewing the SAITM issue has unanimously decided to hand over SAITM to the Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology (SLIIT), the GMOA said yesterday.

President, Maithripala Sirisena was doing the role of the opposition by publicly criticizing the government policies, chairman of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), Prof. G.L. Peiris said yesterday.

Begging will be prohibited along the roads or in public transport within Colombo city limits with effective from January 1, 2018, Megapolis and Western Development Minister Champika Ranawaka said today.

Russia’s agriculture safety watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor plans to discuss restricted tea imports with Sri Lanka at the end of December, it said in a statement on Tuesday.

President Maithripla Sirisena has in a special statement to the Cabinet today blasted the ad-hoc, un-advisable and arbitrary decision by the Mahinda Rajapaksa regime to move the Army Headquarters from Baladaksha Mawatha in Fort and sell the land to S

A joint Cabinet paper submitted by Special Assignments Minister Sarath Amunugama and Power and Renewable Energy Minister Ranjith Siyambalapitiya today seeking approval to construct two coal power plants at Sampur in Trincomalee and Norochcholai in Pu

Malaysia will send a mission to Jaffna to determine the assistance that can be provided to the war-torn province, Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said.

Cut off marks for Grade 6 entrance for 2018 grade six based on the Grade 5 Scholarship Examination held in 2017 have been released by the Department of Examinations.

Condemning the decision of Israel to shift its capital from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem which is considered sacred by the Christians, the Archbishop of Colombo Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith today said this city does not belong to one group of people.

Three persons were taken into custody this day morning while attempting to smuggle in two thousand mobile phones through the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA), the Customs Media Division spokesman said.

Sri Lanka is interested in implementing the same electronic court system that has been used by Malaysia since 2009, a Minister in the Malaysian Prime Minister's Department said.

Kenya wants to use the current tea trade spat — triggered by a single insect— between Russia and Sri-Lanka to boost its volumes to Moscow after years of low exports, the Kenya Daily Nation reported.

United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA) Gampaha district MP and Deputy Minister of Home Affairs Nimal Lanza resigned from his ministerial portfolio today.

Two separate investigations have been launched following the incidents reported regarding O/L examination frauds from Anuradhapura and Colombo schools, the Examinations Department said.

Four faculties of the Rajarata University is closed till December 27, due to the spread of a viral fever within the campus premises, university authorities said today.

For the first time in Sri Lanka, a representative of the Telegu-speaking community in Sri Lanka will be fielded as a candidate at the local government elections.

President Maithripala Sirisena said that there were times when he was not convinced with some decisions taken by the Constitutional Council regarding names sent for the appointments of top posts.

An Amtrak passenger train derailed Monday morning, spilling multiple cars off an Interstate 5 overpass in Pierce County, Washington, according to the Washington state Department of Transportation's Twitter account.