Two Chinese women who pleaded guilty to loitering on a street in Kollupitiya at night in a way to lure people were ordered to pay a fine of Rs.50 by a Colombo Court yesterday

National Transport Commission (NTC) Chairman Shashi Welgama yesterday said he was resigning from the NTC to focus on other interests in the midst of charges by private bus operators who claimed that Welgama had chosen to resign as he was unfit for th

A CID investigator who had earlier cracked several credit card fraud cases was remanded by a Colombo Court today in connection with allegedly committing credit card fraud to the value of Rs.40 million

In a move to take on errant school-van drivers, the Cinnamon Gardens police arrested a van driver without an arm who was found transporting school children to Colombo from Kotugoda in Ekala

Dr. Marty Natalegawa, Foreign Minister of Indonesia, arrived in the country today on the invitation of External Affairs Minister Professor G.L. Peiris and he will call on President Mahinda Rajapaksa this evening

Inter Parliamentary Union (IPU) representative Mark Trowell who monitored the legal cases against former Army Commander Sarath Fonseka has noted in his report that the Attorney General did not provide him with material from the prosecution despite re

The six fishermen who were taken into custody and jailed in the Andaman Islands for two years on the charge of encroaching the Indian waters returned to the country last morning after their release

Prison officials said that the main cause for the riots which took place at the Magazine remand prison was due to the crackdown on drugs being smuggled into the prison through meals brought from outside

The Students of the Peradeniya University staged a protest today against summons issued to 24 students of the university.  The students of all nine faculties comprising around 3,500, protested at the Galaha Junction today demanding that all char

The Movement for People’s Struggle (MPS), a breakaway faction of the JVP, said today that the devolution of land and police powers or the implementation of the 13th Amendment plus would not resolve the national question

Postmaster General M.K.B. Dissanayaka announced today that he would resign from his job amidst continuous protests by postal unions calling on the authorities to remove him from the Postal Department UPDATE

The Sri Lanka Navy said that Indian fishermen are now advancing into the Eastern seas to engage in illegal fishing activities PICTURES

Former UNP Deputy Leader Karu Jayasuriya said that there are no divisions among the party and that all members are with the United National Party

Cairn India has completed drilling the third of three deep-water exploration wells off Sri Lanka but, unlike the initial wells, the final probe was a dry hole. 

The Colombo Fort Magistrate ordered police to prevent a media group calling themselves the Platform for Freedom, from engaging in a rally in the Colombo Fort area. The order states that the protest campaign should be limited within the Fort Railway S

Deputy Leader of the UNP Sajith Premadasa says, “We are not dissidents of the United National Party,” adding, “We will always be with and have been with the UNP.” Mr. Premadasa went on to state that they will form a wide allia

“We will fight to release General Sarath Fonseka. They have taken revenge from him and he has lost everything. We will fight for his right to be free,” Karu Jayasuriya says UPDATE

The current UNP Deputy Leader Sajith Premadasa and former Deputy Leader Karu Jayasuriya are about to hold a press conference at the Bodhi Ranasinghe Foundation, on the new regulations  with regard the party’s policy on speaking to the medi

Immigration officials have refused to issue a visa to a Sri Lankan man wanting to attend his father's funeral because he presented a risk of becoming an illegal immigrant.

DUBAI: A security guard is awaiting the court’s verdict in a case in which he knifed his Sri Lankan ex-lover on July 6 last year with an intention to kill her.

CHENNAI: Lashing out at the Centre for continued attacks on Tamil Nadu fishermen by their Sri Lankan counterparts and the island nation's navy, key UPA coalition partner DMK warned yesterday that neither such incidents nor delay on the government

Sri Lanka's navy denied allegations by Indian media that its ships attacked Indian fishermen and damaged their boats in the seas off Kachchativu Island.

RAMANATHAPURAM: The members of Hindu Makkal Katchi-Tamil Nadu have urged the government to hoist the National Flag at Katchativu during Republic Day and Independence Day celebrations.

The tense situation that arose today with 1,700 prisoners rioting within the Magazine remand prison was brought under control by around 5.30pm 

Sri Lanka could see a great transformation in the next 15 years with the launching of a trilingual policy, former President of India Abdul Kalam said today.

The tense situation prevailing in the Magazine remand prison in Welikada is yet to be under total control. Despite the heavy presence of the military and special forces the situation within the Magazine remand prison is still tense due to heavy resis

Heavy traffic has been reported on Baseline Road as the road from the Dematagoda junction up to the Welikada Prison entrance has been temporary closed by the police due to the tense situation inside the Magazine Prison

A spokesman for the Prisons Department said that former Army Commander Sarath Fonseka is safe as he is serving his term in a cell given to him in the Welikada Prison

The health ministry decided today, to appoint nurses with five years of permanent service or more and have served out of the North-East, to hospitals in that province to ease the severe shortage of nurses

The Government Information Department says that Graham Ford will replace Geoff Marsh as coach of the Sri Lanka Cricket team