Five persons who were allegedly involved in selling a block of 92 acres of state land in Kalpitiya to a resort company by presenting a forged deed and court judgment were remanded till October 5 by a Colombo Court today

Indian tourists, business people and transit passengers will have to apply for travel authorisation ahead of heading for Sri Lanka, in a few months from now. Indians constitute the biggest chunk of tourists into the country

The Meteorological Department today attributed the strong sun light and heat currently experienced in Colombo to the removal of what it called the ‘natural cooling system in the city’ by cutting trees that gave a cover to the sunlight amo

All liquor shops in the country will be closed on October 03, 2011, to mark World Temperance Day, the Department of Information said

People’s Action for Free and Fair Elections (PAFFREL) said today that a Local Government election candidate contesting in the Southern province has provided Rs.1,000 and a lunch packet to people in the area to win their support at the upcoming

European countries proposing a new UN resolution over Syria have dropped demands for immediate sanctions against President Bashar al-Assad's government.

The re-accommodation of Colombo slum dwellers in the city itself will be treated as a special case by the government and therefore all 65,000 families living in so called garden tenements or ‘wattes’ will be re-located to spacious housing

Two persons were arrested for attempting to smuggle ganja, tobacco and tobacco-based products to Sri Lanka on Wednesday, police said.

The five Sri Lankan Tamils and four Keralites who were arrested on Monday for cheating 34 Sri Lankans at refugee camps in Tamil Nadu are suspected to have had LTTE links. The officials have sought the assistance of the Tamil Nadu Q branch in this reg

Pop star Michael Jackson had high hopes his 2009 "This Is It" concerts would be the spark to revive his flagging career, but in the days before he died his ability to perform was hanging in the balance.

Sri Lanka will see a balance of payment (BOP) surplus in 2011 despite a high trade deficit as foreign direct investment, workers’ remittances and inflows into government accounts all pick up, the Central Bank Colombo said on Tuesday

The party convention of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) will be convened soon to discuss the current political turmoil. JVP leader Somawansa Amerasinghe admitted to the BBC Sinhala Service that there is an internal conflict in the party as report

Jordan has some of the region’s most robust laws on paper to protect migrant domestic workers, but human rights groups said Tuesday its failure to enforce them leads to continued abuse.

The Department of Immigration and Emigration is to establish a system called Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA) on Friday in order to grant prior approval for visa via online for the foreign nationals who visit the island for short term requiremen

Sri Lanka is to enter a new field of power generation using geo-thermal power within the next few decades as studies conducted so far have been encouraging, energy experts said yesterday

The Government Medical Officers Association (GMOA) Central Working Committee which met recently has unanimously decided to take legal action if the Higher Education Ministry did not oblige to the demands of the union to shut down the private medical

The Prisons Department is considering a proposal to send a group of prisoners who have been of good behaviour to India on pilgrimage. The pilgrimage to India will be part of the rehabilitation and correctional process according to the Prisons Departm

In the midst of protests by railway engine drivers who have refused to return to work owing to the alleged substandard power sets imported from India, the Sri Lanka Railway Department today said that it would not do away with the Indian technology in

Sri Lankan born first Canadian Tamil MP, Rathika Sitsabaiesan, 29, is at the centre of an embarrassing Photoshop controversy after authorities apparently deemed her cleavage too hot to handle, the Mail online reported

The National Trade Union Centre (NTUC) will conduct a series of district level seminars starting tomorrow, September 28 to inform people of the NTUC’s decision to take trade union action if the government does not increase public and private se

Ernakulam Rural district police chief Harshita Attaluri in a press release stated that the police saved 32 Sri Lankan nationals. They were trying to leave for Australia without proper documents

It has been brought to the notice of the Ministry of External Affairs that an attempt has been made by an agent to deliver summons issued by a New York Court on the Deputy Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka’s Mission to the United Nations in

Securities and Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka (SEC) today said that it is going to take legal action against five investors who have allegedly engaged in actions that falls under insider dealings provisions

A powerful typhoon has struck the Philippines, triggering floods, cutting power and halting work in the capital Manila.

A charred body of a soldier was found by the army this morning from the explosion site inside the Weerawila Army Camp where an ammunition dump exploded on Monday evening, Military Spokesman Brigadier Nihal Hapuarchchi said UPDATE

The JVP dissident group yesterday came out in the open for the first time and vowed to carry out its struggle for a national convention of the party so that the membership could get an opportunity to change its present policies and ideology

The Ratmalana airport is to be converted into a city airport which would provide services to foreign private jets and small aircraft, Airport and Aviation Service Chairman Prasanna Wickremesuriya said today

Two army personnel who had allegedly sexually harassed a young woman by touching her in an inappropriate manner were ordered to pay Rs.25,000 as compensation to the victim and plead in oriental fashion and beg pardon from the complainant today before

An explosion took place in the ammunition dump of the Weerawila Army camp situated near the Weerawila Air Force Base last evening injuring a soldier

Railway engine drivers are to withdraw from operating the recently imported Indian power sets. Talk are underway, the  Locomotive Operating Engineers Union said.