Alert officials at the Dubai Immigration busted an immigration racket, arresting an Indian woman and two Sri Lankan Tamils and later deporting them to India

Election Department says elections for remaining 23 Local Government bodies will be held on or before October 17th and nominations will be accepted from August 18 to 25, Elections Department sources said

While refusing to comment on the latest report released by the Sri Lanka Defence Ministry on the humanitarian operation as the UN has not yet received any official communiqué, the United Nations said yesterday

Embattled UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe who arrived in the country on Tuesday had decided to meet party MPs in groups in order to obtain their support to end the party crisis, informed sources said yesterday

Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE) said today that the University of Kelaniya has begun a new disciplinary inquiry against the organization’s Executive Director, Keerthi Tennakoon

The voluntary administrative positions of University teachers would depend on the outcome of the case in the Appeal Courts today, sources said

In another twist to the burning controversy surrounding contaminated petrol, the main opposition United National Party (UNP) today accused the government of selling to vehicle owners’ new stocks of petrol mixed with the low quality petrol impor

The Transport Ministry said today commuters who wished to complain about any shortcomings in the service provided by the SLTB could call the SLTB hotline 011-7555555 or its inspection unit or the nearest police station

UNP Kurunegala District MP Dayasiri Jayasekera who called himself a referee in the power-game in the party said today that he would rule the right person out at the appropriate time.

Rizana Nafeek the Sri Lankan worker who was sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia in connection with the death of an infant is likely to be pardoned.

The Tamil Nadu government yesterday extended its old age pension of Rs.1,000 a month to the 5,544 Sri Lankan refugees living in various camps in the state. A statement from the government said Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa had ordered the payment

Sri Lankan officials said Wednesday that they have received more than 1,000 complaints against the social media network facebook. The U.S.-based facebook is popular in Sri Lanka and is used extensively by locals both young and old as well

 Inspector General of Police N.K. Ilangakoon has handed over his first report on the attack on the Uthayan News Editor to President Mahinda Rajapaksa, Director General of the President’s Media Bandula Jayasekera said.

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday told MDMK leader Vaiko that India cannot afford to restrict economic ties with Sri Lanka — as demanded by Tamil Nadu’s political parties — in order to apply pressure to mitigate the

In the backdrop of UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe returning to the country last evening, decisive days are ahead for the main opposition UNP with the reformists led by co-deputy leader Sajith Premadasa scheduling a crucial meeting today to discuss t

A British citizen charged with aiding and abetting Channel-4 made the controversial documentary on Sri Lanka which was aired recently intended to insult the armed forces and the state, was released after the court stated that the suspect was not invo

A person who pleaded guilty for stealing books from the Lake House Bookshop located at Colombo 2 was sentenced to 26 months rigorous imprisonment by the Colombo Fort Magistrate today

A body of a person belived to be an Indian fisherman was washed ashore on the south beach of Mannar, the Police said

While criticising the latest report issued by the Sri Lanka Defence Ministry on the Humanitarian operations, the New York-based Human Rights Watch said the report is an attempt to convince the world, that government forces committed no crimes in t

Two Sri Lankan workers drowned off the coast of Dhekelia in Cyprus at the weekend, police said yesterday

A Chennai-based book Publishers has published a book titled ‘War Criminal’ (Por Kutravali), which has reproduced the UN Panel report on Lanka or known as ‘Darussman’ report in Tamil, IBN live reported.

The Indian Opposition Leader is due in Sri Lanka on September 17 and 18, The Hindu reported. This was disclosed at a news conference after a meeting between Ms. Swaraj and the visiting Sri Lankan delegation led by speaker Chamal Rajapaksa yesterda

The Anuradhapura Magistrate yesterday cleared a massive backlog of cases when she delivered judgments in 203 cases in a day. 

The number of deaths from dengue has risen to a staggering 112 while 13,975 dengue cases have been reported in the first seven months of the year, the Government Epidemiology Unit said yesterday.

Embarrassed over AIADMK members shouting slogans against a visiting Parliamentary delegation from Sri Lanka, Speaker of the Lok Sabha Meira Kumar on Monday expressed anguish against the incident and offered "sincere apologies" to it.

With the sighting of the new moon in several parts of the country a short while ago, the Colombo Grand Mosque has announced that the Ramadan fast will begin from tomorrow.

A Singapore-based international arbitrator today voided an oil hedging deal between Sri Lanka's state oil company and Citibank, rejecting the bank's demand for $192 million plus interest in payments it said it was owed, sources said

Sri Lanka updated its request to the European Union to list organizations of the LTTE as terrorist entities, the Sri Lankan Embassy in Brussels said

External Affairs Minister Professor G.L Peiris appealed to the International community to do justice to Sri Lanka and to listen to its voice

Normal 0 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-col