Two passengers of a van and two other girls who were walking beside the road were injured when the van knocked against a high tension electric supply post at Kiribathkumbura on the Colombo-Kandy main road today.

India dismissed Sri Lanka for 135 runs and enforced the follow on, with Kuldeep Yadav taking 4 wickets, Indian media reported. Earlier, Hardik Pandya scored a century to power India to 487.

More than 1.2 million people in 19 Districts had been affected since last December due to the dry weather across the country, the Disaster Management Centre (DMC) said today.

Sri Lanka left-arm spinner Lakshan Sandakan picked up his maiden five-wicket test haul as India were all out for 487 in the first over after lunch on the second day of the third test on Sunday.

Twelve Officers In-Charge of Police (OICs) have been transferred by the National Police Commission with immediate effect.

The tsunami warning alert issued to the coastal areas of Sri Lanka this morning, following the 6.4-magnitude earthquake that hit off the Indonesian island of Sumatra, has been withdrawn, the National Tsunami Early Warning Centre of the Department of

The Disaster Management Centre (DMC) warns that all coastal communities in Sri Lanka to be on alert due to a strong 6.4-magnitude earthquake that hit off the Indonesian island of Sumatra this morning.

Four Sri Lankan children suffering from thalassaemia major were cured of the disease through bone marrow transplantation in Bengaluru.

TNA and Opposition Leader R. Sampanthan urged the two US congressmen who were visiting Sri Lanka, that their government must hold the Sri Lankan government accountable for the commitments they have made to the international community particularly wit

The Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) resolved to oppose the proposed postponement of the provincial council elections till 2019.

Railway Guards, operating from the Mardana station have launched a trade union action from 10 am today until further notice, claiming that the authorities failed to take measures to eradicate bed bugs in their rest rooms and bungalows in the railway

Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe yesterday denied allegations that he had breached the collective responsibility of the Cabinet by criticizing a decision taken by it. 

The GMOA said yesterday the Government had still not acquired the Neville Fernando Teaching Hospital (NFTH) on the basis that no agreement had been signed between the Health Ministry and SAITM with regard to its acquisition.

Answering allegations levelled against the Attorney General’s Department as to how it examined 8,600 pages data retrieved from Arjun Aloysius’ mobile phone within two days, Additional Solicitor General Yasantha Kodagoda PC said yesterday

The Government's Deputy Chief Whip Ajith P. Perera yesterday requested Speaker Karu Jayasuriya to take action against several joint opposition MPs whom he accused of undermining the dignity of Parliament.

Administering and monitoring of the Digital Payment Process (DPP), earlier under the purview of the Central Bank, has been handed over to a private company, Chief Opposition Whip Anura Kumara Dissanayake told Parliament yesterday.

A French tourist was admitted to Badulla General Hospital on Thursday after he was injured when shrapnel, from a rock-blasting quarry in Demodara, had struck him when he was passing by, Ella Police said.

An evacuation order was issued by the Eravur Magistrate’s Court today  following a request made by the Eravur Police, the University’s Vice Chancellor said.

Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe express his own opinion on any subject but it is wrong to make a statement on a subject on which a collective decision was taken by the Cabinet of which he was a member, State Minister Harsha De Silva said today

A bipartisan delegation of US congressmen who arrived in Sri Lanka on Wednesday had assured the full support of the US Government to the Sri Lankan Government’s efforts to work out a new Constitution.

President Maithripala Sirisena today assured that the government would not curtail the Samurdhi benefits to any of the recipients.  

Police said that 160 individuals were arrested for dumping garbage in an ad hoc manner during raids conducted on August 8 and 9.

Priority bus lanes will be in force in Galle Road and Battaramulla from Tuesday (15), Megapolis and Western Development Minister Champika Ranawaka said today.

One lane from Technical Junction towards Colombo Fort had been blocked due to a protest march carrying out by a group of disabled soldiers, Police said.

The National Cricket Selectors yesterday included two fast-bowlers to their 15-member squad for the Third and Final Test match against India which will commence at the Pallekele Stadium in Kandy on Saturday (12).

Minister of Development Assignments Tilak Marapana is likely to be appointed Foreign Minister, a position which had fallen vacant following the resignation of MP Ravi Karunanayake who came under the pressure following his alleged involvement in the o

The proposal by the government to increase fines for seven traffic offences to Rs.25,000, which had received approval from the government, could only be implemented if the roads and infrastructure in the country are developed according to internation

In Tamil Nadu, fishermen in Pudukottai district announced indefinite strike from today urging the immediate release of fishermen and their boats by Sri Lanka.

UNP MP Chaminda Wijesiri said he will bring a no confidence motion against Local Government and Provincial Councils Minister Faizer Musthapha in the near future.

The policy of the ‘Yahapalana Government’ is to bring foreign investment in a way which will not harm the country’s sovereignty and dignity, President Maithripala Sirisena said.