The JVP today charged senior Sri Lankan cricketers Mahela Jayawardene and Kumar Sangakkara were being subjected to undue influence by government politicians to accept the captaincy of the national team.

The Special Investigations Unit (SIU) appointed by the Inspector General of Police (IGP) N.K. Illangakone to investigate accusations such as extortion, mentioned in two petitions which were handed over by two parties representing Minister Mervyn

The Sri Lanka Navy arrested two persons including a former LTTE cadre when they crossed into Sri Lankan waters from India, Navy spokesman Commander Kosala Warnakulasuriya said.

The police have suggested school van drivers should be more than 30 years of age and that they should be provided them with a uniform. This was decided during discussions they had with 1,200 school van owners in a move to strictly regulate school van

The Nawgattegama Divisional Secretary was arrested for attempting to sexually abuse a woman and remanded till January 26, 2012.The victim was a mother of three from the Molwewa area. Police said they arrested the Divisional Secretary on a complaint o

The JVP which expressed somewhat favourable sentiments on President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s recent pledge to convert Sri Lanka into a trilingual nation, called for its quick implementation while opposing the full implementation of the Indo Lanka ac

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India has promised Sri Lanka an increase in educational assistance amounting to LKR2.5 billion in grant to deserving students.Indian Minister of External Affairs S.M. Krishna who was in Lanka on a four-day visit announced that this was a substantial

Chinaman, a novel by Singapore-based Sri Lankan writer Shehan Karunatilaka, on Saturday won the 2012 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature which carries a cash award of $50,000

Arun Tambimuttu son of former MP Sam Tambimuttu who was gunned down by the LTTE in the 1980s, has been appointed as the Presidential Coordinator for the Batticaloa District.

Officers of the Bribery Commission and the CID are to be summoned before the parliamentary Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) shortly to inquire how investigations into alleged malpractices and financial misappropriation in state institutions are

There were only three education ministers who had a spine to take pragmatic decisions and a vision for national education in Sri Lanka who were C.W.W. Kannangara, I.M.R.A. Iriyagolla and Richard Pathirana, Small Crops Exports Minister Reginald Cooray

The political dialogue between the government and the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) has come to an abrupt end over a row on the proposed Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) which is to be set up to evolve a solution to the national question, the TNA

The official residence of the Panadura Magistrate and the land on which it is located has been leased out to a private institution to run a cafeteria, UNP Kalutara District MP Ajith P. Perera charged today.

Only 23 bribery cases had been concluded in 2010 although the Bribery and Corruption Commission had received 1,637 complaints that year, Parliament was told recently.

Two youth of Indian nationality who were deported from Sri Lanka a year ago for overstaying their Visas were nabbed by Immigration and Emigration officials at the Katunayake Airport early morning when they tried to re-enter the country and were sent

A man who produced a counterfeit 100 rupee note to a bus conductor was caught by the passengers and was handed over to the Kalutara South police this morning.

Eight people were today sentenced to life imprisonment after they were found guilty of possessing and smuggling 37.4 grams of heroin at Wellampitiya in 2001.

Three Northants players are heading off for a winter training trip to Sri Lanka at their own expense. Batsmen Stephen Peters and Ben Howgego and wicketkeeper David Murphy will meet up there with the club's overseas player Chaminda Vaas.

The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday ordered authorities to end the house arrest of Malik Ishaq, allegedly involved in the 2009 attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore.

The CEB trade unions suspended their work to rule campaign a short while ago. The Unions however, vowed to proceed with a one day token strike in the near future if their demands aren't met.

A section of the CEB employees today said that they will accept the 25% pay hike offered by the government and that they will refrain from participating in the trade union action resorted to by another section of employees PICTURES

Some 1,200 doctors attached to the National Hospital called off their strike today The strike was in protest against the recent appointment of two members to the Sri Lanka Medical Council (SLMC) and the

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The Colombo High Court which heard the 'Hi- Corp' case against the fomer Army Commander Sarath Fonseka reserved its judgement to the 28th of February a short while ago. When the case was taken up before the Colombo High Court Judge Sunil Raja

In a more concerted move to eradicate ever increasing dengue, the cabinet has given nod to carry out a surveillance project by the Government Epidemiology Unit (GEU) supporting healthcare systems, capacity building and to develop an early warning sys

Police claimed to have arrested 14 suspects on Thursday for their alleged involvement in the attack on the Sri Lankan Cricket Team and other terrorism-related activities in the city during the year 2011

A heavy traffic jam has been reported in the Peliyagoda area due to the toppling of a container, a reporter said

Some 1,200 doctors attached to the National Hospital will launch a strike today in protest against the recent appointment of two members to the Sri Lanka Medical Council (SLMC) and the government’s failure to provide a special allowance to gove

The Ministry of Education made a request to the Ministry of Defence on the possibility of the security forces playing a in building 1,000 National Schools at a cost of Rs.3.5 Billion