Another batch of 150 rehabilitated LTTE cadres who are in their early twenties are to be released into society on Friday in Vavuniya, Commissioner General of Rehabilitation Major General Sudantha Ranasinghe said

As part of efforts to ensure security for foreign tourists visiting Chennai city, Police have instructed hotel and lodge owners to inform them about the visitors staying in their premises to nearby police stations

President Mahinda Rajapaksa will leave to China tomorrow (09) morning on an invitation extended by the President of China Hu Jintao. During his non-state visit President Rajapaksa will attend the opening ceremony of the World University Games “

The elite Special Task Force (STF) has taken steps to establish a camp covering each of the administrative districts in the island to combat and tackle illegal activities which are difficult to be countered by the police.

The Ministry of External Affairs announced that the former Foreign Secretary, Mr. Chrysantha Romesh Jayasinghe passed away today. Jayasinghe, a senior Foreign Service Officer

Defence secretary Gotabaya Rajapakse told Indian news channel Headlines Today that Sri Lankan would not devolve any more powers to the minorities in spite of the promises it made in the past.

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The JVP today accused the USA of violating international law by intruding into Sri Lankan airspace. The party’s political affairs committee in a statement today said this was a threat to Sri Lanka’s sovereignty, “No country could in

The Department of Wildlife said today that tourists will not be allowed into the 15 national parks in the island on August 11, 12 and 13. This will be in order to conduct a census of the elephants in the parks

Sri Lanka Telecom PLC (SLTL) a while ago informed the Colombo Stock Exchange that 19 trade unions of the firm are presently engaged in union action

The United States Embassy in Colombo told the Daily Mirror a short while ago that there was no intrusion by US fighter jets into Lankan air space. “There was no intrusion,” the official said, and refused to comment further

The Chennai city police has in a shocking move instructed hotels in the city not to accommodate pilgrims from Sri Lanka after two attacks on visitors from the island nation

The Sri Lankan and Maldivian governments are making arrangements to commence a passenger ferry service between Colombo-Malé, as part of a joint campaign to boost economic cooperation and tourism amongst both countries

The crisis within the main opposition UNP is likely to take a crucial stage today with Deputy Leader Karu Jayasuriya due to handover some proposals with regard to party reforms, to party leader Ranil Wickremesinghe.

Fresh after the reiteration by India that Sri Lanka should do away with the state of emergency immediately, the government has decided to lift it from next month, a senior government minister said yesterday.

Rizana Nafeek, the Sri Lankan maid who was on death row in Saudi Arabia is likely to be pardoned and brought to Sri Lanka very soon, Daily Mirror learns.  A ministerial delegation from Sri Lanka is already in that country to attend to the formal

Thimarafushi MP Mohamed Musthafa said last night that he planned to submit a motion to the parliament against the new agreement signed between the Maldivian and Sri Lankan governments to facilitate Sri Lankan vessels to cross the Maldivian Territoria

The JVP leadership has appointed a committee to select candidates for the elections to the remaining Local Government bodies. The committee headed by party Propaganda Secretary and Parliamentarian Vijitha Herath comprises

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has written to Congress president Sonia Gandhi, currently hospitalised in the United States, wishing her a speedy recovery.

DIG Ravi Wijewardena has been given the authority to purview and speed up the dengue eradicating programme covering all parts of the country. The decision to appoint a DIG to handle the dengue eradication programme takes place as the public have been

More than one hundred thousand cement bags have been awaiting SLS certification for the last six months without being able to be released into the market, Chairman of the National Cooperative Council of Sri Lanka, Bandu Ranawaka told Daily Mirror onl

The Lanka Private Bus Owners Association (LPBOA) today said that they have requested a meeting with the Transport Ministry to discuss the option of making one lane available in the one-way Galle Road stretch, for public transport in and out of Colomb

Power cuts experienced in the Dehiwala and Kalubowila area from 8am till this evening are due to monthly repairs and not random power cuts, the Ceylon Electricity Board officials said today

More than 30 passengers who were travelling in a SLTB bus from Budugekanda to Badulla were hospitalised at the Badulla hospital after the bus they were travelling toppled due to break failure

Security for Sri Lankan tourists to Chennai has been beefed up following Thursday's attack on some Sri Lankan nationals by activists of a pro-LTTE outfit

Foreign minister S. M. Krishna on Friday served a legal notice on Press Trust of India (PTI) for reporting that he appeared to be absent-minded. PTI reported that when Speaker Meira Kumar called Krishna to make a statement yesterday on the situation