In a shocking new revelation Perpetual Treasuries Chief Dealer Nuwan Salgado testifying at the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) todaysaid that based on the instructions of CEO kasun Palisena he had on July 6 asked the IT executive to delete

Former UPFA MP Sarana Gunawardane was arrested by the Colombo Crimes Division (CCD) today on charges of misusing public properties during his tenure as the National Lotteries Board Chairman.

The Western Provincial Council (WPC) today postponed the debate and the vote on the draft bill on the 20th Amendment to the Constitution till next Monday.

Former senior DIG Lalith Jayasinghe, remanded on charges of allowing a suspect arrested in connection with Vidya’s rape and killing to escape from police custody, was re-remanded till September 11 by the Kayts Acting Magistrate today.

The student, his father and the father of the tuition teacher who were involved in leaking the GCE A/L Chemistry paper had been granted bail by Gampaha Magistrate D.A.Ruwan Pathirana today.

A 5-0 ODI series defeat at the hands of Virat Kohli-led Team India raised many questions on the quality of Sri Lankan cricket team, but Upul Tharanga has said that there is no reason for him to give up captaincy.

The government will hold elections to the nine provincial councils before the end of 2018 by re-wording the 20th Amendment which was rejected by several provincial councils, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said.

Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa said yesterday the Joint Opposition, in alliance with like-minded parties, would contest the next election under the Flower Bud symbol of Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna.

With the number of tourist arrivals set to increase, Tourism Promotion Minister John Amaratunga has requested the government to make arrangements to ready the Ratmalana Airport to handle international flight operations.

Virat Kohli played a captain's knock as India thrashed Sri Lanka by six wickets in the fifth and final one-day international Sunday to complete a 5-0 series whitewash.

Justice and Foreign Employment Minister Thalatha Athukorale said ex-president Mahinda Rajapaksa had a responsibility to order an inquiry into the untimely death of her brother, UNP's former general secretary Gamini Athukorale in 2002, if he had a

Bhuvneshwar Kumar captured his maiden five-wicket haul as India restricted Sri Lanka to a modest total of 238 in the fifth and final One Day International (ODI) in Colombo a short while ago.

President Maithripala Sirisena said today he would never allow former Army Commander (Rtd) General Jagath Jayasuriya or any other war hero to be hauled before an international criminal court or war tribunal as long as he remained the President of Sri

The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) had recruited more than two million members to the party, it said in a statement today.

A spill gate at theKukulegangareservoir and another at the Laxapana reservoir have been opened due to rising water levels after the catchment areas experienced a rainfall of more than 100 mm, Disaster Management Center (DMC) said.

National Freedom Front (NFF) leader Wimal Weerawansa said today Minister and Field Marshal, Sarath Fonseka should be removed from his portfolio for making a traitorous statement on former army commander Jagath Jayasuriya just as former minister Wijey

A shallow magnitude 6.3 earthquake shook North Korea on Sunday, suggesting it had detonated its sixth and most powerful nuclear test device, hours after Pyongyang said it had developed an advanced hydrogen bomb that possesses “great destructive

The National Building Research Organisation (NBRO) has issued a landslide early warning for the districts of Ratnapura, Kegalle, Galle and Kalutara.

The Road from the Ingram Junction to the Borella Junction on the Baseline Road would be closed from 11. 00 a. m. today due to the 66th SLFP Convention held at the Campbell Park.

At least nineteen students of the Sri Jayewardenepura university have been hospitalized after the bus that they were traveling in collided head-on with a car at Navinna Junction in Maharagama on the High Level Road last night.

The water supply to several areas in Maharagama, Kottawa, Pannipitiya, Homagama and Padukka has been suspended because of  a burst in a pipeline, the National Water Supply and Drainage Board (NWSDB) said.

International cocaine smugglers are increasingly turning to Sri Lankan as a transit hub in Asia, authorities say, after they made a series of seizures of the drug, some smuggled in containers of sugar from Brazil, Reuters news agency reported.

Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said the government of President Maithripala Sirisena could always count on continued Indian support, President’s office said yesterday.

Veteran actress and Parliamentarian Geetha Kumarasinghe has been admitted to a private hospital in Colombo with minor burn injuries, following a domestic accident a short while ago, sources said.

The government will have to postpone the provincial council elections by one year to enable electoral experiments, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said yesterday.

A lifetime ban has been imposed on the student who was found guilty of leaking the GCE A/L Chemistry paper, from sitting any examinations held by the Examination Department, the department said.

"If the struggle against the SAITM continues in the same manner, the only option left is to topple the government. I have decided to commit my last phase of life to win this battle", former Sri Lanka Medical Council (SLMC) chairman Prof. Ca

All National Identity cards were being issued from yesterday with front-facing images prior to converting them to Electronic Identity (E-ID) Cards, Commissioner General of the Department for Registration of Persons (DRP), Viyani Gunathilaka said.

The Attorney General is to direct the CID to initiate a criminal investigation on a statement made by Perpetual Treasuries Ltd IT executive that its Chief Dealer Nuwan Salgado had instructed him to delete several sections from the its phone recording

Former Sri Lankan Ambassador to Brazil, General (Retd.) Jagath Jayasuriya yesterday rejected the war crimes allegations levelled against him and said the then Army Commander General Sarath Fonseka in a written document had exempted him from responsib