A Buddhist monk is staging a fast unto death here, demanding Sri Lanka''s intervention to secure the release of some six fishermen allegedly held by India.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard says there are no plans to relocate the next Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), which is set to be held in Sri Lanka.

Immigration Minister Chris Bowen has denied that a Sri Lankan man who died in an apparent suicide attempt at Sydney's Villawood Detention Centre overnight had been cleared of being a security threat.

Media reports state that, Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd has signalled that the next Commonwealth Leaders’ Meeting will go ahead in Sri Lanka.

Criticising the government's decision to stop war crimes cases against the Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse, the Australian Tamil community on Wednesday said they felt betrayed and disappointed.

India today expressed “reservations” over attempts by some Commonwealth member-countries to constitute an internal rights monitoring group as it believes the move is targeted at alleged Sri Lankan abuses in the war against the LTTE.

Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapaksa remains untouchable in Australia over local allegations he committed war crimes during his country's civil war, which ended in 2009.

Refugee advocates say a Sri Lankan man who died in Sydney's Villawood Immigration Detention Centre overnight poisoned himself.

Forty seven fully qualified doctors are performing clerical duties at the administrative branch of the health ministry while 92 hospitals remained closed due to the want of doctors, a health ministry trade union activist said yesterday

A Horana school teacher who had allegedly given 20 canings and slapped a Grade Nine schoolboy was taken into custody by the police and produced before Horana Chief Magistrate Mahinda Ranasinghe

New investors who have shown interest in Sri Lankan oil and gas exploration await the results of Cairn India's drilling of a second well in the Mannar Basin before committing to anything, Sri Lanka's oil minister said on Tuesday

People will no longer have to wait for six months to an year to receive their driving licences as they would soon be issued their licences within seven days under a new electronically modified system, the Transport Ministry said today

A fresh tussle has emerged between the JVP and its dissidents for the ownership of the party’s headquarters in Pelawatte, Battaramulla after Party’s member M.K.G.G. Madanayake who was in charge of it defected from the party after the spli

In his first interview since his arrest more than two years ago, Raj Rajaratnam butted heads with prosecutors once more

The main accused in the bogus demand draft scam Suleman Riyaz Shaikh Mohammad Ali Riyaz (50), who is already in police custody, has been found to be a Sri Lankan citizen. His police custody was extended till October 27 last evening

The Turkish government has pledged more aid to thousands of people affected by Sunday's deadly earthquake in the east. Officials said 12,000 more tents would be delivered to the cities of Ercis and Van and also to nearby villages

Excise duty on a liter of arrack is to be increased by Rs.60 and the price of a bottle of beer by Rs.5 with effect from midnight.  An official of the Excise Department said that the price revisions were discussed during the last few weeks

According to highly placed hospital sources at the Sri Jayawardenapura Hospital, MP Duminda Silva is being given speech therapy and is currently undergoing an extensive rehabilitation process following the surgery

The Australian Attorney-General has refused to allow a war crimes case against the Sri Lankan president to proceed in Australia

The leadership crisis in the UNP which laid dormant during the local government elections came to the fore again today with Former Assistant Leader and a Former Chairman of the UNP Rukman Senanayake urging the Deputy Leaders of the party Karu Jayasur

The social insurance scheme for prison inmates proposed by the Ministry of Rehabilitation and Prisons Reforms for those who receiving long term prison sentences will come into force from next month

The Justice Ministry will introduce tough legislation to strictly control the import, distribution, production, exhibiting, telecasting, printing or broadcasting of pornographic material in Sri Lanka, a senior official said today.  

An Austrian, Natascha Kampusch who hit world headlines in 2006 after she was rescued from a secret cellar where she had been confined for eight years has in an act of benevolence donated a children’s hospital to Sri Lanka built at a cost of Rs.

TELO, an alliance partner of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA), expressed disappointment today over the exclusion of its members in the delegations assigned for talks with the government in pursuit of a political solution.

Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) president M. Karunanidhi, in the national capital since Friday, is slightly indisposed and is likely to return to Chennai on Tuesday morning.

The Colombo Fort Magistrate today issued a warrant for the arrest of teledrama actress Anushka Sonali Sayakkara for not appearing in court in a case involving an alleged attempt to extort a sum of Rs.100,000 from her father, after threatening him.

A Colombo Court today directed the CID to send to the government analyst, the blood stains extracted from the clothes worn by Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra and four others and those removed from the vehicles found at the scene of  the murder.

Hedge-fund executive Raj Rajaratnam, recently sentenced to 11 years in prison for insider trading, gave a rare interview to Newsweek magazine. It’s a bizarre read.

Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa - who was due to arrive in Australia last night - has had a charge laid against him in a Melbourne court accusing him of war crimes in his country's civil war.

A "Kottamba" tree which fell in front of the Telecom office in Fort has resulted in a heavy traffic jam in and around the area, the police said.