A sailor while on duty onboard a naval ship in Galle has been missing since Monday. A complaint has been lodged to the police, the Navy says.

A powerful explosion occured outside Gate No. 5 of the Delhi high court at 10:15am. Around 24 people are reportedly injured

Four Sri Lankan fishermen who were stranded at sea since August 4, had a providential escape after they were spotted by fishermen off Andhra Pradesh and rescued

The human rights watchdog issued a 69-page report slamming the work of the government's Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) ahead of next week's meeting of the UN Human Rights Council, expected to  discuss Sri Lanka

The report of the Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) will be released to Parliament before the budget debate, its chairman and senior minister D. E. W. Gunasekara said in Parliament today.

Opposition Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe today proposed that a committee comprising all the MPs from the Jaffna district be appointed for the government to consult in matters such as the dismantling of the High Security Zones in the aftermath of the wi

In the midst of protests by the Government Medical Officers Association (GMOA) which had refused to accept the legality of the private medical university in Malabe, the Higher Education Minister today vowed that the university will continue to functi

A man who had allegedly sexually harassed a Japanese woman while she was travelling in a bus near Union Place, Colombo 2 was remanded till September 12 by the Colombo Fort Magistrate today.

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Another batch consisting of 1000 rehabilitated LTTE cadres who are in their early twenties are to be released into society this month in Vavuniya, according to the Ministry of Rehabilitation and Prisons Reforms

The government is pursuing the release of lands which were used as high security zones to its owners, Nimal Siripala de Silva, Minister of Irrigation and Water Resource Management said today in parliament

Six men including four Sri Lankans have been accused of forming a gang that specialised in stealing cars that had been abandoned by their owners on the streets for months

The agreement for the second coal power plant in Sri Lanka with the installed capacity of 500 MWs will be signed by officials of India and Sri Lanka in Colombo this morning at a ceremony chaired by Power and Energy Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka

A large-scale vehicle racket involving millions of rupees in unpaid import duty has come to light with the use of ‘Carnet’ permits issued to foreigners, dual citizenship holders and tourists who regularly travel abroad

The International Cricket Council today said that the pitch for the Test Match between Sri Lanka and Australia in Galle has been rated as poor by ICC Match Referee Chris Broad.

The United National Party (UNP) said today, it was too late for the government to ask the company which supplied contaminated petrol to Sri Lanka, to pay for the damages because the consignment was accepted and distributed without having rejected it

The Auditor General in a highly critical report has drawn the attention of the parliamentary Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) as to how the top management of the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CEYPETCO)

September 29 and 30 are the days set apart for postal voting for the October 8 local council polls, Elections Secretariat said today. Deputy Elections Commissioner W. P. Sumanasiri said

Victims of child abuse would be able to get assistance around the clock through a new 24 hour communication centre established by the Probation and Child Care Services Department.

A Sri Lankan student in Singapore was fined $2,000 and fined another $20,000 for having 287 obscene films stored in his laptop. The Straits Times reports that the accused had posted revealing pictures of his ex-girlfriend on Facebook and called her a

The High Court trial at bar judges today, ordered the Superintendent of the Prisons to produce former Army Commander Sarath Fonseka, before Consultant Chest Physician Vajira Tennakoon for a further two weeks of physiotherapy.

The Colombo High Court today overruled the plea of the defence to dismiss the  bribery case  against former Defence Minister Anuruddha Ratwatte  without calling for defence  witnesses

The trial of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and his sons is set to resume in the capital Cairo.The 83-year-old is accused of ordering the killing of protesters during the uprising earlier this year that ended his rule. He denies the charges.

Uruguay has ordered the repatriation of five of its peacekeepers from Haiti, accused of involvement in the sexual assault of a teenage boy.

Those who attack military and police installations are "terrorists" and will be charged with the country's anti-terror regulations, says Sri Lanka military

The Tamil National Alliance decided to legally challenge the regulations imposed  under the Prevention of Terrorism Act on the principle that things done by the  government under the state of emergency could not be done under a different&nb

The Indian company involved in the reconstruction of the northern railway tracks  had sought the government’s help to remove encroachments along the track between  Palai and Kankesanthurai without delay, officials said today.

An area extending up to 10 acres in the Imaduwa State Timber Reserve in Laggala was completely destroyed due to a wild fire, police media spokesman Prishantha Jayakody said.

Health Minister Maithripala Sirisena himself had to experience the malpractices of private pharmacies that put unsuspecting patient’s lives at risk when a pharmacy near the Castle Street Maternity Hospital issued a wrong drug to a prescription