The Hardy Advanced Technological Institute in Ampara was closed indefinitely by its Director General today following a tense situation which arose at the institute last evening.It was reported that a group of students had taken hostage the Director o

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and the joint opposition are agitating for a new constitution and the abolition of the executive presidency while the SLFP and Mahanayakas of three Nikayas want to retain the executive presidency and introduce refo

Former US Ambassador to Sri Lanka Robert O. Blake has said that it was a myth that he orchestrated a rescue of Tamil refugees from a northern beach to help LTTE Leader Velupillai Prabhakaran escape Sri Lankan armed forces, India Abroad news reported

The joint opposition said it was completely against the supplementary estimate presented to Parliament seeking approval to allocate Rs. 148.8 million to purchase vehicles for several ministers.

The CID has launched an investigation into the incident where 27 prison inmates were killed during a shootout at the Welikada prison in 2012, Police said.

Board of Investments (BOI) Chairman and Attorney-at-Law, Upul Jayasuriya resigned from his post today.

Seven Tamil Nadu fishermen were arrested by the Sri Lankan Navy for fishing in their territorial waters today, a fisheries official said.

The GMOA today said the meeting it had with Prime Minister Ranil Wikcremesinghe on Wednesday with regard to the SAITM issue was positive and therefore there was no immediate necessity to resort to a trade union action.

A jealous husband whose wife was planning to divorce him had kidnapped the new man in her life and beat him to death, a British court heard this week.

Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has been convicted of corruption charges and sentenced to nine and a half years in prison.

The Presidential Commission of Inquiry yesterday suddenly summoned CBSL Senior Assistant Director Saman Kumara as a witness while he was recording statements with the CID and the PCoI instructed him to reveal the truth without resorting to contradict

President Maithripala Sirisena left for Bangladesh on a three day state visit this morning, President’s Media Division said.

A group of 41 students from Grade 10 and 11 including seven girls of a school in the Medirigiriya Educational Zone were found to have caused grievous injury to themselves after supposedly consuming drugs last morning, Medirigiriya Police said.

The government is lying when it says that the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearances would not have a retrospective effect, the joint opposition said today.

In-depth research needs to be carried out before introducing dengue vaccines including the newly proposed vaccine which is to be introduced in Sri Lanka by the pharmaceutical company known as Sanofi Pasteur, Dengue Eradication Unit’s Community

The Anti-Corruption Secretariat (ACS) was to be closed down to save the Corrupted Ministers in both the present regime and the previous Government, the Janatha Vimkuthi Peramuna (JVP) charged today.

The Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) today said that it would not let the Government close the Dambulla Raja Maha Vihara Complex or any other temple in the country using any international laws.

Former Navy Spokesman Commodore D.K.P. Dassanayake has been arrested by the CID this afternoon at Welisara on charges of aiding and abetting in the enforced disappearance of 11 youths between 2008 and 2009, the Police said.

Former Sri Lanka skipper Mahela Jayawardene in an exclusive interview with Mirrorcricket.lk brushed aside allegations that managers of players influenced the team selection process.

It is essential to conserve the Dambulla Rajamaha Viharaya also known as the Cave Temple Complex if the historic site is to retain its world heritage status, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe told a group of young Buddhist monks who met him at Temp

Three members of a same family including the 32-year-old mother, two and half year old child and 81-year-old grandmother were drowned while bathing in Uma Oya at Welimada this afternoon, Police said.

A Police Sergeant and two others were arrested by the Wellawatta police in connection with robbing Rs. 15 million from a Chinese woman.

Central Environment Authority (CEA) has banned the use of polythene lunch sheets, rigifoam boxes and shopping bags, with effect from 1st of September.

While apologizing to the causal workers engaged as ground laborers at the Sooriyawewa stadium in Hambantota as they were asked earlier to hand over their trousers to obtain the daily wages, Sri Lanka Cricket announced today that steps would be taken

Following the resigning of Angelo Mathews as the Sri Lanka Cricket team captain from the all formats, Dinesh Chandimal has been appointed as the new Test Captain while Upul Tharanga has been appointed as the ODI and T20 captain.  

Reiterating its stand on Katchatheevu, the Tamil Nadu government on Tuesday strongly opposed the recent legislation passed by the Sri Lankan government, which restricts certain fishing practices, and asserted that it would retrieve the ceded islet fr

Former president Mahinda Rajapaksa should reject nominations of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) even if he was offered to contest at future elections from that party, Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Chairman G.L. Peiris said yesterday.

The Asgiriya Chapter Registrar and the Asgiriya Sangha Sabha senior committee member, the Ven. Medagma Dhammananda Thera said he appreciated the decision taken by the TNA parliamentarians including the Opposition leader to meet the Mahanayake Theras.

The students of South Asia’s biggest State Nautical Engineering University, the ‘Ocean University’ (OCU) have started boycotting lectures demanding recognition by the University Grants Commission (UGC).

The newly prepared Code of Conduct for MPs allows Parliament to request the police to conduct an inquiry on any MP found to have engaged in breaching criminal law.