AIADMK members in the Lok Sabha Monday shouted slogans to protest the presence of Sri Lankan delegates, led by Speaker Chamal Rajapaksa, who were in the house as special foreign guests

Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa releasing the report titled “Humanitarian Operation Factual Analysis July 2006 – May 2009,” said a short while no that nobody contacted him for a surrender during the war Updated

A boxer from Sri Lanka who was named in a list of 30 suspected war criminals hiding in Canada is no longer in this country, according to the Canada Border Services Agency

Sri Lankan passenger who was offloaded from an Air India flight on Saturday morning for attempting to travel on a forged passport managed to evade airline and security officials for almost 18 hours before he was finally caught in Hyderabad

Making an order in a case over a state land dispute which was argued on basis of 13th Amendment to the Constitution, the Court of Appeal held that the Provincial High Court has the jurisdiction to hear cases relating to state land.

During the last two years, 1700 persons have been abducted according to a new report prepared by the Police Department. The number includes personal issues as well.

Representatives of the Singapore- based Emirates International Oil Company which supplied the sub standard stock of petrol to the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) arrived in the country

Legal action would be pursued if any reduction is made in the number of electorals in the Jaffna District says the TNA parliamentarian Selvam Adeikkalanadan.

Two suspects alleged to have been cutting the underground power-cables under the millennium city bridge at the Havelock road, were taking into custody by the Bambalapitiya Police.

Following the fresh leadership crisis in the party, UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe had decided to cut short his visit to the UK and rush back to Sri Lanka, MP John Amaratunga said today

Two people detained under the Internal Security Act (ISA) in Malaysia for links with the terrorist group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LLTE) have been repatriated to Sri Lanka

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa has urged the Indian Central Government to impose an economic embargo on Sri Lanka for alleged 'war crimes' and atrocities committed on the ethnic Tamil community by the Mahinda Rajapakse-led Governme

The Chief news editor of the Jaffna-based Uthayan news paper who was assaulted by an unidentified group on Friday evening and was admitted to the Jaffna hospital is out of danger, Dr. Sribavanatharaja the acting Director of the Jaffna Hospital said

President Mahinda Rajapaksa today instructed the Police Chief to immediately launch an investigation and submit a report into the assault on the News Editor of the Jaffna based Uthayan newspaper, President’s Media Director General Bandula Ja

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Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao who arrived in Sri Lanka on a three-day visit ahead of her retirement from the foreign service on July 31 met Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa over breakfast today

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Medium rain showers could be experienced in the Western, Sabaragamuwa and Central Provinces and the Galle and Matara Districts today and coming few day, the Meteorological Department told Daily Mirror online 

Commenting on the Channel 4 documentary, Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao told Headlines Today that Sri Lanka had to look at the video carefully. She also noted that "We must take care of it in the neighborhood and have to avoid jumping int

Four crew members of the ship that brought dozens of Sri Lankan migrants to the B.C. coast in 2009 and who were subsequently charged with human smuggling offences were granted bail on Friday

In response to a claim by Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa that the British Government should take action against Channel-4 for airing what he describes as ‘an irresponsible video’, the British High Commission in Colombo said yesterda

Shavendra Silva who is Sri Lanka’s deputy United Nations permanent representative said the latest Channel-4 video was a personnel attack on him and Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa as the first killing fields documentary failed to attain it

The Chief news editor of the Jaffna-based Uthayan news paper was assaulted by an unidentified group this evening, police said. Gnanasundaram Kuganathan was attacked while he was traveling along the Navalar Road in Jaffna.

South Asian Games gold medal-winning athlete Ranga Wimalawansa who was remanded on charges of having defrauded another person of Rs.1.6 million on the promise of getting him an American visa was today released on bail by a Colombo Court.

UNP Deputy Leader Karu Jayasuriya, who accepted the UNP reformists’ request to take over the leadership of the party, left for India for a private visit this morning, informed sources said.

Galle District Government MP Manusha Nanayakkara today accused fellow parliamentarian Nishantha Muthuhettigama of interfering in matters which did not come under his purview.

The National Transport Commission has introduced a new colour scheme to easily identify bus routes and the service level on inter-provincial bus routes.

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The coast guard personnel today intercepted two more intruding Sri Lankan vessels and took their eight crew members into custody

The UAE-flagged oil tanker with 17 crew members including a Sri Lankan was released on Wednesday after it was hijacked by Somali pirates on July 16 in the coast of Yemen, announced the National Transportation Authority (NTA).