Cases relating to child abuse are to receive priority among court cases and a new project by the Justice Ministry aims at expediting such cases and dispensing them within one year of the date of complaint.

Former Australian cricketer Geoff Marsh has been appointed the national head coach of the Sri Lanka cricket team, Sri Lanka Cricket announced a short while ago

Sri Lanka’s Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) report must deal with the issues raised in the UN expert’s panel report, The Australian Foreign Minister said

Around 23 school children in Warakapola have been hospitalised due to food poisoning, hospital sources said

The Parliamentary Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) has revealed that the government has lost a staggering Rs.10 billion due to the mismanagement, inefficiency and corruption at 24 state institutions from 2010 up to now, the Daily Mirror learns

The minister of resettlement Gunaratne Weerakoon said in parliament yesterday that 7,427 internally displaced persons in the Kadirgamar Relief Village and Ananda Coomaraswamy Relief Village would be resettled in their homes before December 31 this ye

Nugegoda SSP Deshabandu Tennakoon said that the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) has not asked for any police protection for their party headquarters in Battaramulla as far as he is concerned

Immigration officials at the airport here today detained a Sri Lankan national, who had been deported from Dubai, for allegedly travelling on a fake Indian passport

The animal sacrifice scheduled to be held tomorrow at the Kali Kovil, Udappuwa in Arachchikattuwa has been suspended by Puttlam District Court

Sri Lanka will continue to stand steadfast in its resolve to combat violence extremism and terrorism to safeguard security of people in Asia, President Mahinda Rajapaksa said

The Australian Government and its opposition voted together to defeat a motion moved in the Senate to suspend Sri Lanka from the Commonwealth, government sources said

UNP Mayoral candidate for the Colombo Municipal Council A. J. M. Mussamil today challenged his rival UPFA candidate Milinda Moragoda to join him in a debate on national television for the people to decide who they should vote for

Showers are to be experienced in several places in the Southern, Western, Sabaragamuwa and Central provinces. The showers can extend to the North-Western province as well

Barack Obama has told Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas he will veto his bid for UN membership, as he tried to persuade him to drop the plans. But Mahmoud Abbas vowed to press ahead during a meeting with the US president, the White House said after

Greece is being hit by a 24-hour public transport strike in the latest protest against government austerity measures. Train, bus and taxi services have been crippled and air traffic controllers will stop work for several hours.

The funeral of renowned Sri Lankan Actor Joe Abeywickrama, who passed away on Wednesday September 21, at the age of 84, will be held at 4pm on Friday September 23, at the General Cemetery in Borella.

A teacher of the Embilipitiya National School was taken into custody by the Embilipitiya Special Crime Investigation Unit on suspicion, for forging letters of appointment of teachers.

A Sri Lankan woman who scammed an insurance company of $76, 297 was today jailed for 16 months. Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner called the operation a “callous and sophisticated scheme”.

Senior Minister Prof. Tissa Witharana was unanimously elected to the Chair of the inaugural Sri Lanka – Vietnam Parliamentary Association meeting held at the Parliamentary Complex today a Parliamentary source said.

Lashkar-e-Jhanvi leader Malik Ishaq, the alleged mastermind of the 2009 terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team, was today placed under house arrest in Pakistan's Punjab province.

The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) said yesterday the crisis in the party was yet another conspiracy it had to face but assured the party would re-emerge stronger and would never waver from its objective of creating a socialist and democratic Sri La

The government enacted new laws in parliament today to deal with LTTE overseas fund raising activities and money laundering. The Prevention of Money Laundering (Amendment) Bill and the Convention of the Suppression of Terrorist Financing (Amendment)

The Colombo High Court today ordered the defence to lead the evidence of former Deputy Defence Minister Anuruddha Ratwatte and the other witnesses in the case against Anuruddha Ratwatte, for allegedly failing to declare the mode of the earnings of hi

The main suspect who is alleged to have forged the passport and the Birth certificate of Rizana Nafeek to seek employment in Saudi Arabia was remanded by the Colombo Chief Magistrate on Tuesday

Veteran award-winning actor Joe Abeywickrema who is regarded as one of the topmost character actors ever produced by the country, passed away this evening at the age of 84

Post-war Sri Lanka will need another decade to clear the half million landmines which lie buried under swathes of agricultural and forest land and around villages in the north of the island nation, the head of a demining group said

Batsman Kumar Sangakkara and spinner Rangana Herath moved up the ICC test player rankings, following their contributions in the recent series against Australia

At least 34 people were hospitalised due to a bus accident at Moratumulla, Moratuwa a short while ago, a reporter stated

The police is to strictly impose the law against every person travelling in the driving seat or the front passenger seat in motor vehicles with English number plates who fails to wear their seat belts with effect from October 1

The airport customs arrested an Indian who attempted to smuggle foreign currency worth around Rs.9 million to Singapore last morning