Six Sri Lankan guards of a security company in Dubai have been jailed for three years each for robbing Dh1.19 million from a cash transfer van.

A gunman dressed in black tactical gear massacred at least 26 worshipers and wounded 20 others at a white-steepled church in Texas on Sunday, carrying out the latest in a series of mass shootings that have plagued the United States.

The Commonwealth Parliamentary Association delegates are due to arrive in Sri Lanka on Saturday, November 11 to observe on the charges of injustices against Parliamentarians of Joint Oppositions.

The joint venture between China Merchants Port Holding Company (CMPH) and Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) to operate the Hambantota Harbour would start operations on December 8, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said today.

The employees of the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CEYPETCO) today charged that there was a covert move by the Indian Oil Company (IOC) to fraudulently dump a substandard stock of 30, 000 metric tons of petrol in the domestic market, which was reject

Many development projects had been implemented islandwide today allocating a huge amount of money and the present Government was committed to ensure maximum transparency when implementing those development projects, President Maithripala Sirisena sai

Around 25 people have been injured when a SLTB bus plying between Dayagama and Hatton veered off the road at Ensiwatte area in Hatton this evening.

SAITM Medical Faculty Student Activists Committee in a letter sent today had requested a meeting with President Maithripala Sirisena to discuss their views on the government solutions made over the SAITM controversy.

The Government has decided to get public opinion on the Interim Report of the Steering Committee on Constitution making via online.

Additional Solicitor General Dappula De Livera has been appointed as the Acting Attorney General, sources said.

Eight Indian fishermen were arrested by the Navy for poaching in Sri Lankan territorial waters in the seas off Vettalakerni early this morning.

The Pakistan Naval Ship (PNS) Saif arrived at the Colombo port on a goodwill visit today.

An Indian and a Pakistani were arrested last night by the Dehiwala police for overstaying their visas and violating immigration laws, Police said.

Four women and two men were arrested on charges of having run a brothel under the guise of a massage parlour in Kollupitiya last night, Police said.

Five bodies of the victims, who drowned in Thelgamu Oya in Matale, were recovered and search operations are underway to recover three more bodies, police said.

The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) Secretary-General had assured to look into the concerns raised by the Joint Opposition (JO) MPs over violation of rights of MPs and democratic value in Sri Lanka, MP Dullas Alahapperuma said yesterday.

Archbishop of Colombo Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith yesterday said he had requested President Maithripala Sirisena in writing to ban tuition classes on Sundays at least for several hours.

The judgment to annul MP Geetha Kumarasinghe's Parliamentary post had not been officially conveyed to Parliament yet, Deputy Secretary General of Parliament Neil Iddawala said yesterday.

At least ten persons who were bathing in the Thelgamu Oya, Laggala, Matale went missing following flash floods, police said. 

Following protest by some members, the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) had decided to withhold any assistance from a German NGO for its awareness programme on Constitution making, an official said.

Sri Lanka ranked as low as 109 of 144 countries in the Global Gender Gap Report-2017 and widened its gender gap in wage equality for similar work.

No one spoke of forming an alliance with the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) to contest at the local Government election as Minister Rajitha Senaratne only talked about trying to figure out a common list only in Beruwala, the United National Party (UN

All Sri Lankans applying for new Passports through the Sri Lanka Embassy in Manila would be required to provide biometric information to the Immigration and Emigration Department upon their first entry to Sri Lanka after obtaining new Passports with

Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Thomas A. Shannon will travel to Colombo on November 6, where he will co-lead the US-Sri Lanka Partnership Dialogue, the State Department said.

Thousands of Sri Lankan motorists queued for fuel on Friday after the state-run fuel retailer limited supplies following a delay in a fuel shipment and a rejection of another shipment due to the wrong specification, officials said.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday stressed the need for a new education system under which Government funded schools could play a greater role in educating children.

Supporters of the Ceylon Workers Congress (CWC) yesterday staged a protest in the Kotagala town against changing the name of the Thondaman Vocational Training Centre and the playground in Hatton, which had been named after the late Minister Saumya Mu

The Petroleum Ministry today allayed fears of any petrol shortage, insisting that people should not panic unnecessarily as the CPC would be issuing 750 metric tonnes of petrol to filling stations from Saturday.  

Long queues were reported outside filling stations in several areas both in Colombo and the outstations due to an apparent shortfall of stocks in filling stations run by the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC).

Former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga said at a recent function that a small group of extremist Buddhist monks, under the cover of their robes, were sowing discord, racism and religious fanaticism among the people.