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.

The Lanka Private Bus Owners’ Association today threatened to launch a countrywide strike from midnight tomorrow (14), if the government did not grant the fuel subsidy in the aftermath of the recent fuel hike.

Incidents of fishermen crossing the International Maritime Border Line (IMBL) has been on the rise, straining the relationship between India and Sri Lanka. With a view to impress upon fishermen of Pudukottai district the norms on restriction of fishi

Indian officials met in 'secret' with the LTTE ahead of Sri Lanka's 2002 truce although New Delhi considered the Tamil Tigers a terrorist group, Norwegian cabinet minister Erik Solheim has revealed.

The first evaluation of Norway’s peace efforts in Sri Lanka has been presented. “We want to learn from the experience we have gained from the peace process in Sri Lanka,” said Minister of International Development Erik Solheim.

The Tourist Board information department said today that the online visa fee for entry into Sri Lanka has been revised to USD10 for citizens of SAARC nations and USD20 for citizens of other countries. The revised fee is set to be enforced from 2012 o

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday said he had conveyed to Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa that the use of force in dealing with fishermen is unacceptable and pushed for a joint working group to resolve the issue

President Rajapaksa told India’s NDTV that the Sri Lankan Navy has stopped taking Indian fishermen into custody and that it will allow them fishing in Sri Lankan waters

Two persons were arrested late on Thursday night when they attempted to smuggle about 20kg of gold from Sri Lanka. In another incident, a 45-year-old woman was taken into custody by the Trichy customs officials on Friday while trying to smuggle 1.2kg

Queensland's Gold Coast has won the rights to host the 2018 Commonwealth Games - and the $1.1bn debt that comes with it - with a solid victory over a tsunami-ravaged port in Sri Lanka.

Amidst speculation over the alleged involvement of certain politicians in drug trafficking, the National Dangerous Drugs Control Board revealed yesterday that Sri Lanka is being used as a hub by drug traffickers to smuggle drugs to Europe from India

The Prisons Department yesterday said women could also apply for the two hangman vacancies existing in the department.

Sri Lanka’s newest golf course that is to be constructed in Soragune in the Uva Province has caused a major controversy because of claims that the golf course has been planned to be built on a reserved forest land belonging to the Soragune Deva

Two men and 11 women who were found guilty of running a brothel under the guise of a massage parlour at Sellamuttu Avenue in Kollupitiya were sentenced to six months rigorous imprisonment by a Colombo Court today.

Local universities are facing a brain drain and will not be able to achieve the government’s goal of turning Sri Lanka into a South Asian knowledge hub as the academic staff has not received their wage increments promised by the government, the

Education Minister Bandula Gunawardana said the Education Commission would come up with a range of recommendations with a mechanism to improve educational and natural abilities of a student notwithstanding whether he or she was successful in the GCE

Even as it publicly advocated peace when the Sri Lankan conflict was raging, India quietly informed Norway that the LTTE must be 'put in its place', reveals a Norwegian government sponsored study on why the peace process failed in the island

Some 80% of unemployed graduates in the country are women who struggle due to no available income which will have grave social and economic implications if the government does not address the problem, the Combined Association of Unemployed Graduates

Over 150 gold biscuits worth Rs 4.5 crore allegedly smuggled from Sri Lanka were today seized from a car in Nagapattinam district and two persons arrested in this connection, police said.

Six Indian nationals have been arrested in Sri Lanka's eastern province on charges of abusing visit visas by indulging in textile trading.

The police department has been able to complete only 50 per cent of criminal cases reported annually since 2004, Parliament was informed today. During the first nine months of this year, 40,560 cases were reported but only 16,406 of them have been re

Police could not record a statement from MP Duminda Silva who was injured in the shooting incident on October8, because he was lying unconscious in the hospital bed,” the government informed Parliament today.

Six students from the Kelaniya University were remanded till November 17, by the Colombo Magistrate’s Court in connection with a clash inside the university, yesterday

The Sri Lanka Ports Authority has 2000 employees in excess of the required number, and a heavy loss is incurred by paying salaries to them on an annual basis, the Auditor General observes

The economic fate that befell Greece due to the spending of US$13.5 billion for the Olympics in 2004 would befall Sri Lanka too if a massive Rs.265 billion were spent for  the Commonwealth Games in 2018, the JVP warned today

Two Sri Lankan visa applicants have been arrested this week for using deception and false identities to apply for UK visas. They were referred by the UK Border Agency to the CID in Colombo.

At least 63 families in Haldummulla, Badulla have been temporarily evacuated following an earth slip with heavy rain, the Disaster Management centre said.

India and Sri Lanka on Thursday agreed that the Joint Working Group on Fisheries should meet and discuss steps to ensure that peace and harmony prevailed in the waters between the two countries and Indian fishermen are not attacked by Lankan navy

Sevanagala Sugar Industries Ltd., owner Daya Gamage said yesterday he would go before an international tribunal to seek redress over the government’s plan to acquire his assets through the new act passed in parliament on Wednesday