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).

Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa yesterday said that the British Government should take action against Channel-4 for airing what he called ‘irresponsible videos’.

UNP Deputy Leader Karu Jayasuriya, in response to a request by his colleague Sajith Premadasa to accept the party leadership, said today that he (Mr. Jayasuriya) was willing to accept any challenge to take the party forward if it was the fervent wish

The Sri Lankan Navy today denied reports that it had assaulted over thirty Indian fishermen at high seas on today. International Media reports stated that thirty Indian fishermen were assaulted at high seas while their catch and GPS equipment were ta

The UNP reformists had invited UNP Deputy Leader Karu Jayasuriya to takeover UNP leadership and he had agreed, UNP MP Sajith Premadasa said today. (UPDATED)

The body of human rights activist Pattinin Razeek who disappeared more than one and half years ago was exhumed before Valachchenai Magistrate on a lead given by a suspect today

The Sri Lanka Transport Board (SLTB) said yesterday that it had not been requested to provide free bus transportation to A/L students despite statements to that extent being made by the Education Minister at a press conference yesterday

The government will gradually relax the Emergency Regulations and totally lift the regulations by the end 2011, Cabinet Spokesman Minister Keheliya Rambukwella said. Updated 

The Colombo Fort Magistrate today order the private hospital which is treating former Army Commander Sarath Fonseka and media channel Sirasa TV to hand over video footage taken at the hospital premises on July 21st, after prison officials made a comp

The Sri Lanka Army today said that the latest Channel- 4 video, released last night, featuring two soldiers, is a fake.

About 130 Sri Lankan Tamil refugees have been taken into custody by the Tuni rural police. According to Peddapuram DSP K. Kumar, the refugees, housed in different camps in Chennai and surrounding areas

UNP Co-Deputy Leader Sajith Premadasa is to make a crucial announcement with regard to the future of the party today, informed sources told Daily Mirror last night

Sri Lanka yesterday obtained US$ one billion (Rs.101 billion) through an International Bond Issue (IBI) repayable in 10 years at an annual rate of 6.2 per cent interest, Central Bank Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal said.

The university academics said yesterday they would not withdraw the resignation letters which they submitted to university authorities and were awaiting the Vice Chancellors to issue fresh letters of appointments for the academics who resigned from t

Deputy Ambassador of Sri Lanka in Berlin, Major General Jagath Dias said the war could have been finished earlier but due to external and internal pressures, it could not be achieved till 2009

Private bus owners today said they will not be providing private bus transportation free of charge to A/L students sitting for their examinations although the Education Ministry had made a formal announcement to that effect

The Ministry of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources said that it has taken steps to release the 13 Lankan fishermen who were arrested by the Indian Coast Guard on Tuesday in seas off Orissa.

UNP Matara District MP Mangala Samaraweera said the certain internal activities within the party led to its defeat at Saturday’s local government election. Mr. Samaraweera told a news conference today

Seven people accused in the Golden Key fraud case including former Ceylinco Chairman Lalith Kothalawela were released on a Rs. 5 million surety bail by the Colombo High Court today.

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A Tamil refugee claimant who arrived off Canada's West Coast aboard the MV Sun Sea last year has been ordered deported over allegations he committed a war crime in his home country of Sri Lanka.

The cabinet may discuss easing emergency regulations or at least the removal of some clauses of the Public Security Ordinance which are not essential under the prevailing situation in the country, a senior government source said yesterday

Daily Mirror bagged five awards and a merit award at the annual Editors Guild awards which was held this evening

The Colombo Municipal Council said today that people should refrain from eating lunch packets wrapped in newspapers as the lead component in the printed paper can have harmful effects on a person’s health

Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) General Secretary and Minister of Power and Energy Patali Champika Ranawaka today called on the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) to develop the areas which comes under the 16 local government bodies they won in the Northern Pr

A man found guilty of peddling heroin at Delgahawatte in Mulleryawa is today sentenced to death by a Colombo Court

Thirteen Sri Lankan fishermen were held as three trawlers were seized by Coast Guard near India today after illegally entering the area off Orissa coast

JVP led Socialist Youth Union is to come up with a list of Tamil youth who are held in unannounced locations and those who have been disappeared in the North

Kaduwela UPFA Group Leader G.H. Buddhadasa yesterday lashed out at Minister Wimal Weerawansa, accusing him of parachuting into the area and violating various election laws.

The Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) has taken over control of the Norochcholai power plant from the Chinese company, informed sources said.