Around 800 persons who were heading towards Jaffna along the A9 road to stage a protest against the disappearance of two JVP dissidents Lalith Kumar and Kugan Maruganathan, were blocked at Omanthai, Vavuniya today.

UNP’s Galle District Parliamentarian Buddhika Pathirana stated that he would not change his stance regarding the reconstruction of the UNP despite the truce today

Bringing the controversial 2011 GCE Advanced Level results to further chaos the Examination Department has released the results of the Russian Language paper on Monday without district and island rankings.

President Rajapaksa has promised Indian External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna the full implementation of the 13th Amendment plus.President Mahinda Rajapaksa has promised visiting Indian Minister of External Affairs S.M Krishna that the government wi

President Rajapaksa has instructed the Ministries of Education and Higher Education, the Department of Examinations and the University Grants Commission to immediately implement the recommendations made by the Committee appointed by him

University teachers went on an island wide token strike today in protest against the establishment of private universities and the privatisation of free education. The Federation of University Teachers Associations (FUTA) said

UNP MP Buddhika Pathirana whose party membership was suspended after being at logger heads with the party hierarchy had come to a truce with the party, General Secretary Tissa Aattanayake said today

A 21 year old suspect who cashed in a heavy sum with forged Mahajana Sampatha Lotteries was taken into custody with the computer equipment used by the Western Province Intelligence Division

UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe will make a statement in Parliament today on the crisis of the Advanced Level results, the party said yesterday.

The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) stressed to India’s External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna yesterday that India is duty bound to prevail upon the government of Sri Lanka to evolve an acceptable solution to the national question, party’s

Indian External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna will urge Sri Lanka to seek an early political settlement of the Tamil issue during his four-day visit, a ministry official said late Monday.

Sri Lanka's main Tamil minority party, Tamil National Alliance (TNA), has rejected the government's war commission report saying it fell short earning Tamil people's confidence.

The Inter Company Employees Union (ICEU) today expressed reservations over the government’s decision to table amendments to the EPF Act in Parliament tomorrow and said it was strongly opposed to two of the amendments.

The two foreign employment sub agents who are alleged to have sent Rizana Nafeek to Saudi Arabia for employment were sentenced to two years rigorous imprisonment and ordered to pay Rs.60,000 each as compensation to her parents.

Police said that four vehicles were damaged due to stoning in the Kahathuduwa area along the Southern Expressway Sunday evening.

A police warehouse labourer and two footwear traders were produced in court and remanded till January 27 on charges of having pilfered 420 pairs of boots from the police warehouse.

Though the five member committee that probed the 2011 GCE Advanced Level results fiasco held certain officials at the data processing unit of the Examination Department responsible for the blunder

Rameswaram (TN): A Sri Lankan court on Monday extended by 14 days the remand period of five fishermen from Tamil Nadu, arrested on drug smuggling charges on November 28, an official said.

The Colombo Chief Magistrate ordered the Colombo Crimes division to investigate into an alleged complaint of threatening against Colombo District UPFA provincial Councilor Nauzer Fowzie. The Magistrate had ordered the CCD to submit a report to court

In the backdrop of some UNP members criticising the party hierarchy in public, UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe today issued an order in terms of the party’s constitution, barring its members from making statements without approval by the party,

The students of Colombo University have decided to protest against the establishing private universities and the privatization of free education. The students of the University began their protest at twelve noon in front of the main library

A Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora group said Sunday that it will support discussions for a political settlement on the island if the solution alters the structure of governance in the country

Nuwara Eliya experienced extreme cold weather recording a low of 2.7 degrees Celsius early last morning with ground frost formation, the Meteorological Department said today UPDATE

A suspected sympathizer of the banned LTTE was arrested by Kochi city police from Chengalpettu in Chennai in connection with a human trafficking case involving Sri Lankan Tamils

The countrywide admission of children to Grade 1 would transpire today. Education Minister Bandula Gunawardane will participate in the main event at C.W.W. Kannangara Central College in Matugama

Despite the re-integration of ex-LTTE combatants who surrendered to the military nearing completion, the government has decided to keep four remaining rehabilitation centres for a further period for the rehabilitation of cadres being referred for reh

IGP N.K. Illangakoon has directed the Police Special Investigations Unit (SIU) to investigate allegations levelled against Minister Mervyn Silva and Kelaniya PS Chairman Prasanna Ranaweera.

The Chairman of the Kolonnawa Urban Council Raveendra Udaya Shantha and  Vice Chairman  Suresh Kodagoda were called over to the SLFP  headquarters and severely warned  said the General Secretary of the United National Freedom Alli

A Sri Lankan housemaid, who was not paid for over 15 years, says her constant pleas to send her home from Saudi Arabia has been ignored by the authorities, the BBC reported.

India and Sri Lanka have reiterated that highest priority would be accorded by their respective governments to the well being, safety and security of fishermen of both nations.