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

The price of food packed in polythene lunch sheets at restaurants will be increased by Rs. 10 from tomorrow due to the ban of polythene usage by the Central Environment Authority (CEA), the Sri Lanka Restaurant Owners’ Association (SLROA) said

The gazette notice on the ban on the manufacture, sale, offer for sale, offer free of charge, exhibition or use of the polythene or any polythene product below 20 microns was issued by the Mahaweli Development and Environment Ministry today.

Minister and Field Marshal, Sarath Fonseka said yesterday he had information on the crimes committed by former army commander Jagath Jayasuriya, the then Vanni commander and that he was ready to give evidence if proper legal action was instituted aga

The first-ever US-Sri Lanka naval exercise would be held in October this year expanding navy-to-navy relationship among the two nations,” US Acting Assistant Secretary of State Alice G. Wells said on Friday.  

Hollywood actress Gal Gadot has thrown her support behind two young women in Sri Lanka after they were cyber-bullied for cosplaying as Wonder Woman.

The water supply to several areas within the Moratuwa Urban Council limits, Panadura and Horana has been interrupted because of the likelihood of the water in the Kalu Ganga being contaminated with fuel, the National Water Supply and Drainage Board (

The joint opposition yesterday suggested that President of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) Thilanga Sumathipala should at least temporarily resign from his post in order to rescue cricket from its present state.

The 10% telecommunications levy imposed on data would be removed and the data capacity would be increased by 10 per cent from today.

Three people were killed and another five injured when a car collided head-on with a double cab at Batugedara junction on the Colombo- Batticaloa Road early this morning, Police said.

Sri Lanka does not intend to enter into a military alliance of any type with any nation or make its bases available to foreign countries, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe assured yesterday.

Testifying before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI), Sachith Devathantri, the IT executive of Perpetual Treasuries Ltd yesterday admitted that he had deleted several phone recordings from its data on the instructions of the Chief Dealer o

The Joint Opposition yesterday said that the Local Government Elections (Amendment) Bill which was recently passed in Parliament was an unconventional Bill.

The Local Government Elections (Amendment) Bill came into effect from yesterday with Speaker Karu Jayasuriya placing his endorsement on it.

The new Justice Minister, Thalatha Athukorala, should make finding out how her brother (Gamini) died her first priority, former President Mahinda Rajapaksa said yesterday.

Highways and Higher Education Minister Lakshman Kiriella yesterday asked JVP MP Sunil Handunnetti to name the Minister accused of getting a luxury vehicle as inducement for awarding the contract to extend the southern expressway.

The Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) yesterday said that they have doubts on the statement made by President Maithripala Sirisena on providing a final decision to the South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine (SAITM) contr