The Sri Lanka Standards Institution (SLSI) which earlier refused SLS certification to Lucky Cement from Pakistan on the basis that the cement was of substandard quality today lifted the ban on the cement after

The Colombo grand mosque announced that Sri Lankans will celebrate Eid ul Fithr tommorrow ending a month long fast during the arabic month of Ramazan.

Underworld leader Navy Asanga who was in police custody is believed to have drowned in the Kelani River while attempting to escape. The body was found late this evening

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The opening of the southern expressway for motor traffic had been delayed due to incomplete work on signalling and access points, Deputy Minister of Road Development Nirmala Kotalawala said

Four Sri Lankan Tamils, who were deported to Chennai from Singapore, were held at the airport for possessing fake documents on Monday.

Top officials of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Sri Lanka met in Colombo Monday to discuss ways to improve bilateral relations

MDMK leader Vaiko and an advocate moved the Madras High Court to challenge the President’s order, rejecting the clemency plea of the three men - an Indian and two Sri Lankans - headed for the hangman’s noose for assassinating former PM Ra

Nearly 1000 children who went missing during the final phase of the war against the Tamil Tigers are still unaccounted for, authorities say

The Court of Appeal yesterday granted time till October 3 to the Elections Commissioner to file objections in respect of the writ petition filed by former Army Commander Sarath Fonseka who seeks to have his seat in parliament restored

The proposed Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) to find a political situation for the national issue will take another few weeks to start its business and to decide whether it is to be debated in Parliament, Secretary General of Parliament Dhammika

The Ministry of Rehabilitation and Prisons Reforms is currently discussing several proposals to implement a social insurance scheme for inmates who are receiving long term prison terms

While the worst power crisis in history is looming, the Power and Energy Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka today appealed to all electricity consumers to brace for the challenge and use electricity sparingly.

Sri Lankan players have been told they must notify team medical staff if they plan to consult faith healers following the drugs ban being served on opening batsman Upul Tharanga.

The three member committee that probed into the circumstances that led to the import a stock of contaminated petrol and the aftermath of it last month, has found a series of lapses on the part of CEYPETCO officials and recommends to charge the losses

A suspect on whom a red notice was issued for his arrest allegedly for  importing dionial chloride to Sri Lanka was arrested  at the Chennai Airport by Interpol recently.

The chief investigating officer of the Special Investigation Team which probed the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case blasted various organisations in Tamil Nadu for distorting the facts associated with the death sentence awarded to Santhan, Murugand an

A member of the veddah community shot an arrow and injured a security guard at the Kandy Hospital when he was prevented entry into the hospital.

Tamil Nadu chief minister J. Jayalalithaa said on Monday that she does not have the power to commute the death sentence of the three people who are to be hanged on September 9 for their roles in the assassination of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi

Japan's governing Democratic Party (DPJ) has chosen Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda as its leader, lining him up to become the country's sixth prime minister in five years.

National Authority on Tobacco and Alcohol said today, that as of September 1, the censorship of alcohol and tobacco consumption on television will be scrapped and instead new regulations will be introduced to discontinue the airing of all television

Acting on information and armed with a search and arrest warrant, security men from the Farwaniya governorate raided an apartment in Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh and arrested a Sri Lankan woman for manufacturing and trading in alcohol, reports Al-Watan Arabic d

The Sri Lankan High Commission in Delhi India stated that one pilgrim who had gone missing, had been found last night, The Sri Lankan Deputy High Commissioner in Delhi Palitha Ganegoda told the Daily Mirror online

A young woman immolated herself in front of the tehsildar’s office in Kancheepuram district on Sunday evening, allegedly demanding remission of the death penalty awarded to three convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case who are set to be

Japanese Embassy officials in Sri Lanka on Saturday confirmed that a Japanese woman who disappeared with her husband from a resort in the Maldives is dead and that local police presume she drowned

Sri Lanka's foreign minister left on Sunday on a two-week mission to shore up diplomatic support ahead of a U.N. Human Rights Council meeting, where the Indian Ocean nation is expecting to face a fight over Western-led pressure for a war crimes p

Former Chief Justice Sarath N. Silva said he could not be brought before a Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) as he retired from service two years ago and that the President himself had given him a letter of commendation for his distinguished servi

Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) General Secretary and Minister of Power and Energy Patali Champika Ranawaka said that certain forces are engaged in activities challenging national security

UNP Colombo District MP Mohan Lal Grero denied rumors that he is to crossover to the government over the issues with regard to Mayoral candidature in the Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia Municipal Council.

The planned visit of US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Robert O. Blake to Sri Lanka has been postponed due to the hurricane in the United States, the US Embassy here said