There is a massive traffic jam at Horton place and roads running into the area due to a VIP movement. Motorists are advised to take alternative routes.

Four Sri Lankan nationals, including a woman, were arrested at the Indira Gandhi International Airport here on Monday night for allegedly attempting to board a Paris-bound flight with fraudulently obtained Indian passports that were tampered with.

The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) charged yesterday that though the government pledged in its 2011 budget to give Rs.100,000 to soldiers at the birth of their third child, none of the soldiers had received this payment during the year

Despite Speaker Chamal Rajapaksa’s assurance that he will probe the reasons that led to Monday’s violence in the House, United National Party (UNP) MP Jayalath Jayewardene said yesterday

Notwithstanding the government’s much hyped ‘mathata thitha or policy against alcoholism’, the local manufacture of hard liquor and beer had increased in large volumes last year, reports say

Sheikha Lubna bint Khalid bin Sultan Al Qasimi, the most powerful Arab woman in the world according to Arab Business and Forbes magazines, who is also the Minister of Foreign Trade of United Arab Emirates, arrived in Sri Lanka today

Senior Minister Sarath Amunugama said the next instalment of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) standby facility of US$2.6 billion is expected in the first quarter of next year and an IMF team will visit Sri Lanka for talks soon

The CID today arrested the main suspect behind the printing of some three million counterfeit notes, which had been in operation since 2009. At the time of the raid at Kesbewa the suspect had with him 20 counterfeit 100 rupee notes and 49 seals

A group of well-known lawyers have expressed concerns about the government’s move to appoint a Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) to probe the conduct of former Chief Justice, Sarath N. Silva

Two suspects who had allegedly sold Prado jeeps that had been imported in parts and assembled in Sri Lanka and used engine numbers and chassis numbers of motor bikes, were remanded till November 30, by a Colombo Magistrate today

Sri Lankan Minister of Sports Mahindananda Aluthgamage has approved the following squad under the Captaincy of T.M. Dilshan for the Test Series against South Africa, scheduled to get underway on December 15.

Two Chinese firms and a British company are bidding for a contract to build the USD 500 million Colombo South Harbour Container Terminal in Sri Lanka, an official said here Wednesday.

All 17 estates under the JEDB had suffered losses to the tune of Rs.115.2 million in 2010, Minister of State Resources and Enterprise Development Dayasritha Tissera informed Parliament today

The Sri Lankan Rupee weakened to Rs.114.15 against the dollar in the currency market after closing at Rs.113.90 yesterday

The International Monetary Fund said on Wednesday that Sri Lanka's devaluation of its rupee currency was a good step and should support the island-nation's export competitiveness and safeguard its reserves over the medium-term.

Despite the government claiming that natural gas had been discovered while drilling for oil in two blocks in the Mannar Basin, the gas deposits found deep under the sea in one well has been proved to be inadequate in terms of volumes and thus non-eco

The Malabe private medical college should never be allowed to award the Sri Lankan MBBS, Medical Faculty Students Action Committee representative Najith Indika said yesterday protesting opposite the University Grants Commission (UGC)

University academics, who are unhappy over the government’s failure to honour the pledge to increase their salaries to a mutually agreed level in the 2012 Budget are once again mulling over the idea of resorting to trade union action to win the

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President Mahinda Rajapaksa will submit the LLRC report to Parliament next month, President's Media Director General, Bandula Jayasekara stated

The Colombo Fort Magistrate today issued a warrant for the arrest of Ven. Uvatenne Sumana Thera for not being present in Court in connection with an alleged defrauding of a businessman of Rs.3 million on the promise of providing him with a plot of la

Former Deputy Defence Minister, Anuruddha Ratwatte was hospitalised earlier today after he sustained critical injuries after falling at his residence, Kandy hospital sources said

UNP Deputy Leader Karu Jayasuriya today expressed the party’s doubts regarding the honesty and sincerity of the statement of the government which say that they need an opposition, if they continue to assault those who express opposing views. Is

International Cricket Council (ICC) chief executive Haroon Lorgat will step down after a four-year tenure in June 2012, the governing body said on Tuesday.

The proposed 10% pay hike for public servants, announced in the Budget for 2012, will be added only as an allowance to their salaries, Minister Sarath Amunugama said

UK Foreign Office Minister Alistair Burt yesterday called on the Sri Lankan government to release publicly the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Committee's (LLRC) report on post conflict issues in Sri Lanka

The main opposition UNP today decried the proposed ten-per cent pay hike in the budget saying that it would be totally insufficient given the high cost of living

Speaker Chamal Rajapaksa today said that he would conduct an inquiry into the circumstances that led to a commotion in Parliament during the budget speech on Monday

The alleged abduction of a prominent Peliyagoda businessman by two men in camouflage military uniforms this morning has resulted in protests in the area UPDATE

If Sri Lanka was able to exploit the sea to its full potential it will be able to present a ‘Sea  Budget’ and refrain from obtaining loans from global financial agencies and donors, Fisheries and  Aquatic Resources Minister Dr.