A Sri Lankan housemaid who has spent the last six years on death row in Saudi Arabia had an emotional meeting with her parents in Riyadh on Tuesday.

The airport police arrested a woman on charges of having cheated a number of youths living in all parts of the country by obtaining millions of rupees on the promise of finding them employment in the Middle East and Cyprus, police said today

Popular film and teledrama producer and businessman Upul Jayasinghe has been questioned by two unidentified men whether his upcoming film ‘Ethumai Methumai’ is based on the Kolonnawa incident

Hot on the heels of the enactment of a new law to acquire underperforming and underused assets, the government today leased out the Embilipitiya Paper Corporation to an Australian company on a 30 year-period under the government’s plan to restr

Colombo Additional Magistrate Prasanna Alwis has ordered the CID to arrest MP Duminda Silva over the incident in Mulleriyawa which killed Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra.

We must use our own strategies to resolve our challenges whether they are terrorism separatism or environmental issues and must not rely on imported theories and ideologies, President Mahinda Rajapaksa said

In yet another incident over a week, a fisherman was injured today when Sri Lankan naval personnel allegedly attacked three fishing boats from here in the Palk straits, officials said on Tuesday

The main opposition UNP today warned that the collapse of the economy of the country had started with the passing of the ‘Revival of Underperforming Enterprises and Unutilised Assets Bill’ in Parliament

Sri Lanka Monday called for tougher action against Somali pirates operating in the Indian Ocean and said multinational efforts had so far proved insufficient to deal with the threat

The Sri Lanka-Japan Friendship Road in Battaramulla will be closed for a short period due to a VIP function and motor traffic will be restricted on the Pelawatte Janakala Road

The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) will take disciplinary action against its central committee members turned dissidents, who criticised the party at a Sugathadasa Stadium ceremony to commemorate the 22nd death anniversary of the party’s found

The total number of voters in the Jaffna electoral district has been reduced by another 41,750 this year due to reasons such as residents leaving the district to live in other parts of the country, officials said yesterday.

The printing of counterfeit currency notes are on the increase with 62 such incidents reported during the first nine months of this year alone, as against 38 reported the previous year, police department reports say.

Seven of the 10 policemen arrested in connection with the killing of a Grandpass businessman had today sought the Magistrates permission to make their confessions on camera

International ratings agency, Moody’s has stated that the recently passed Expropriation Bill by the government would be credit negative for Sri Lanka and deter foreign investors coming to the country.

The party leaders will meet during the budget debate to decide on the setting up of the Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) to resolve the North–East conflict, a senior official said today.

The Private Transport Ministry said today that it was seeking Cabinet approval to increase bus fares for a second time this year following a Rs.8 increase in the price of a litre of diesel.

The main opposition UNP today charged the government of having wasted its time and money on unnecessary expenses to win the rights to host the Commonwealth games and on other unnecessary expenses rather than essential things like providing farmer pen

India today pitched for a collective strategy against the menace of piracy at seas, saying it has become "some kind of a global scourge" and other countries, including China and the US, would have to be involved in the battle against it.

Farmers attached to the Sevanagala Sugar Industries and the Buddhist monks from temples in the vicinity today decided to stage a death fast to urge the government to review its decision to acquire this business venture under the Revival of Underperfo

The Colombo High Court today postponed for January 23, the case in which former Army Commander Sarath Fonseka and his Personal Assistant Senaka Haripriya de Silva were indicted for committing mutiny, in-subordination to the government and harbouring

Colombo Court today ordered the Fort police to arrest all suspects involved in a 30-year-old man's death when he went to the Police Narcotics Bureau (PNB) to sign the case book on October 30.

A second natural gas deposit with hydrocarbon potential has been discovered by Cairn Lanka (Pvt) Ltd in the second exploration well in the Mannar Basin according to a release from the Petroleum Resources Development Secretariat.

A top Pentagon commander has said US forces were working with partners in the South Asian region to contain Pakistan-based terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba that threatens India and had carried out 26/11 Mumbai attacks.

A delegation led by Sri Lanka’s Western Province Gov. Alavi Mowlana is to arrive in Riyadh this week to seek clemency for Rizana Nafeek from the parents of the infant who was killed during her care

A Sri Lankan  was held for allegedly possessing suspected narcotic substance at Thethakudi near Vedaranyam in Nagapattinam district on Sunday

In a bid to curb corruption and financial malpractices, the Education Ministry has decided to make it compulsory for school authorities to maintain accounts of their school development societies according to the accounting standards  and concept

JVP dissidents, who called for a socialist revolution, today requested its cadres to be prepared to even sacrifice their lives for the cause following the example of the party’s founder leaders

Police have identified as many as 258 cases of sexual abuse involving children and 21 cases of forcing girls or women into the sex trade during the first nine months of this year, Parliament was informed last week.

The JVP today referred to its dissidents as robbers who took away party’s property including a photocopy machine and a computer.