The Sri Lanka Air Force took delivery of two MA 60 passenger aircraft received from China yesterday.The aircraft became part of the Air Force inventory in a simple brief ceremony held at the SLAF Base in Ratmalana. The ceremony was presi

The Police is to strictly impose the law against all persons travelling in the driving seat or the front passenger seat of a motor vehicle with an English number plate, who fails to wear his/her seat belt with effect from today (October 1, 2011)

Some officials of the Ruhunu Development Bank had fraudulently withdrawn Rs. 6.1 million recently, the Auditor General report released to Parliament stated

The Palmyrah Development Board had managed to improve its financial position earning a turnover of Rs.20 million in 2010 compared to their earnings of Rs.12 million the previous year

The South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine (SAITM) today charged that the Government Medical Officers Association (GMOA) was practicing double standards by asserting that government medical faculty lecturers should not teach in private inst

The Tamil community in the Netherlands (between 9,000 and 13,000 men) has been “largely annexed” by the Tamil Tigers to the violent conflict in Sri Lanka. Through extortion and sedition, a “climate of fear” has been shaped amo

Sri Lanka has shown an example to the world on rehabilitation and social integration of ex-combatants by rehabilitating and conducting skills development training for nearly 10,000 ex-LTTE cadres in less than 20 months, President Mahinda Rajapaksa sa

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A strike in favour of a new state in the Telangana region of southern India's Andhra Pradesh state has entered its 18th day

The Sri Lanka Pakistan Friendship Association and the High Commission of Pakistan in Sri Lanka, today made an urgent appeal to the Sri Lankan public for flood relief to assist the six million people affected by the current floods in the Sindh Provinc

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Five suspects were arrested last night for printing about 20,400 illegal copies of the ‘Lanka’ newspaper by a suspended editor of the Lanka Newspaper, police said

The Sri Lankan government which rejected a move by the Commonwealth Ministerial  Action Group to appoint a Commissioner on Democracy, Human Rights and the Rule of Law said yesterday the push for a “punitive role” by a few commonwealt

Sri Lanka's navy is monitoring the movement of merchant ships to guard against the threat of attacks by Somali pirates who have been extending their raids further east into the Indian Ocean

The Government Medical Officers Association (GMOA) yesterday protested the victimisation of its President Dr. Anuruddha Padeniya for allegedly leading the campaign against the Malabe Private Medical College, and warned it would launch countrywide tra

Prisoners also have rights and they should be provided with accommodations in accordance with the internationally set guidelines and therefore, the government has decided to relocate all the prisons in the country, cabinet Spokesman Keheliya Rambukwe

The controversial Japanese Mahayana Temple located in an apartment at the Liberty Plaza in Kollupitiya said it would continue its religious activities in Sri Lanka despite an attempt by some Buddhist monks to stop them

A Sri Lankan airline (UL 564) was detained at the Charles De Gaulle Airport in Paris owing to ‘technical deviations’ almost a week ago, the airline said in a statement

A man who worked as a tax collector in the Tamil Tigers’ finance department while the terrorist group engaged in crimes against humanity has been branded a war criminal and ordered out of Canada in a court ruling that holds office clerks just a

While the public debate between the mayoral candidates of the two main parties for the Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) namely A. J. M. Muzammil and Milinda Moragoda is yet to take place, UNP MP Palitha Range Bandara also challenged Mr. Moragoda for a

At least 50 Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seekers, who were deported from Britain, arrived at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) last morning on an overnight charter flight, the police said. UPDATED

Admission came hours before up to 50 people denied asylum were flown back despite warnings they risk torture or even death.

Stephen Harper’s government, which alienated many Tamil-Canadians in the last days of Sri Lanka’s civil war in 2009, is aggressively campaigning to pressure Sri Lanka on human rights and political reconciliation.

The British government should review plans to deport a host of Tamils to Sri Lanka as they could end in detention and be tortured, a British medical charity said yesterday.

The Sharjah Police recently arrested a gang comprising six Sri Lankan nationals who were involved in burglaries in 14 shops in Sharjah. According to a Sharjah police official,

Amid charges by Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) rebels that alliance politics has eroded the party’s political culture, the crisis-ridden JVP said yesterday it had taken a policy decision not to forge political alliances with any other party fo

A German Plunging Satellite is set to crash to Earth next month and follows the Pacific Ocean space debris dive of the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) NASA Satellite, but where will it land?

The Ministry of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources said that there was a 50 percent decrease of Lankan fishermen being arrested by Indian authorities for allegedly crossing the exclusive Economic Zone boundary

The National Children Protection Authority (NCPA) will establish a child protection committee in all 9,700 government schools island-wide to address the problems faced by children