Former Army Commander Sarath Fonseka’s wife Anoma said yesterday that a large number of people had shown interest in joining the Anoma Fonseka Foundation soon after her husband’s release over a week ago.

UNP front liner Karu Jayasuriya and his wife were admitted to the Hambantota base hospital a short while ago after the vehicle the duo were travelling in met with an accident in Hambantota, the Police said UPDATE 

Tamil National Alliance leader R. Sampanthan said that there is no rift within the TNA as portrayed by the media. “ There is no rift within the TNA as certain media are trying to point out” he said.

The police arrested 18 persons including eight females suspected to have been employed as prostitutes, when they raided a night club last night at D. R. Wijewardana Mawatha, Colombo.

A group of 36 Sri Lankan asylum seekers deported from the UK arrived in Sri Lanka this morning on a chartered flight.

A media report from India proves that the alleged match fixing incident involving a Sri Lankan player had happened only six years ago in 2006 and not during the recent IPL tournament as it was widely publicized.

  Scores of Sri Lankans, due to have been deported from the UK on a government charter flight on Thursday afternoon, have had their removal orders overturned by high court judges.

The Indian Government on Friday extended the ban on LTTE by another two years following intelligence reports that remnants of the Sri Lankan Tamil terror outfit were trying to re-group in Tamil Nadu.

  A body of a male with stab injuries was found near the Hindu College,Bambalapitiya,  last night, the Police said

Sanath Jayasuriya, the swashbuckling Sri Lankan World Cup winning cricketer, is the prime attraction on season 5 of an Indian TV’s celebrity dance show ‘Jhalak Dikhlaa Jaa’, India Today reported.

United National Party (UNP) front-liner Wijedasa Rajapakse yesterday submitted a Private Member’s Bill asking that Sri Lanka’s Constitution be amended to prevent a priest of any religion becoming a member of parliament.

The deadly virus that has the ability to copy high level information from state agencies and other parties has not had any impact in Sri Lanka as yet, The Sri Lanka Computer Emergency Readiness Team (SLCERT) confirmed.

The 13 Sri Lankan crew members of the detained cargo vessel Lankan Mahaphola, who were arrested for stealing scrap metal from the ship at the weekend, have been released.

The LIOC has increased the price of diesel by Rs. 2 a litre and the price of super diesel by one rupee, with effect from midnight today, the LIOC announced.

Trincomalee Magistrate U.L.A. Azhar today remanded the Eastern Provincial Council Deputy Chairman Ariyawathie Galappaththi till June 14 on charges of having threatened officials of the Trincomalee Magistrate’s court.

The UNP yesterday charged that the country would face dire economic consequences if it went ahead with another IMF loan of US$500 million as a security arrangement which the government had requested for recently

The JVP will take legal action against the authorities of the state institutions that used public funds for dubious inside trading at the Colombo Stock Exchange

Five students of a grade three class in a school in Dikwella were hospitalized when a coconut tree crashed on to their classroom roof, police said.

Denying media reports, the Central Bank affirmed that the exchange rate will stabilize below Rs.125 against the US dollar

Bodies of two females were found from a house gutted by fire at Warapitiya in Kahawatta this morning, police said. They said the victims had been identified as two sisters aged 52 and 61.

Another boatload of 40 Sri Lankan asylum seekers arrived at the Australia’s Cocos Islands late on Tuesday, immediately putting the resources of the main island and its 500 inhabitants under immense pressure.

On completion of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Standby Arrangement (SBA) of US$2.6 billion next month, Sri Lanka will start negotiations with the IMF for another US$500 million Security Arrangement (SA), International Monetary Cooperation Sen

A 17-year-old student from Sri Lanka, studying at Newport's University in Caerleon, Wales, was found dead in the Caerleon river

A Colombo Court sentenced a Chinese restaurant owner to six month imprisonment suspended for five years after he was pleaded guilty for selling beer without a permit and possessing a stock of illegally imported cigarettes

Lanka IOC one of two suppliers of fuel to the local market has made a fresh request to the government for a price hike in fuel,  its General Manager Subodh Dakwale confirmed

A complaint was made today to the Colombo Chief Magistrate alleging that the Akkaraipattu Magistrate had illegally released a suspect on bail despite objections raised by the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption, officials s

Media Minister Keheliya Rambukwella reacting to the United States call for a ‘speedy and transparent judicial process” regarding the ex LTTE carders said that the Government has an action plan regarding the issue and are working according

A Sri Lankan shipping company that leased Sri Lanka’s only cargo vessel, the Lankan Mahaphola, which is currently detained in Durban Harbour over a wage dispute and safety regulations, has agreed to pay the disgruntled 26-man crew.

Sri Lanka rugby union player Senthil Kumar was handed a six-month jail sentence and Rs. 7500 fine yesterday by Mt.Lavinia Magistrate Ruchira Weliwatte after being found guilty on three counts of snatching gold chains from women walking on roads

Thirteen Chinese mainlanders implicated in a transnational telecommunications fraud were sent to Shanghai under the escort of Chinese police from Sri Lanka on Tuesday, police said.