President Mahinda Rajapaksa is likely to meet UPFA leaders next week to decide on the date for dissolution of the remaining 23 local bodies which includes several municipal councils too.

A group of 50 former militants from Niger Delta will be in Sri Lanka for training in boat building, underwater operations, deep sea welding and underwater diving, allafrica.com reported.

Former Sri Lanka cricket captain Kumar Sangakkara today said Sri Lankans were indebted to the armed forces for the sacrifices made in bringing about a bright future for the country and that on every possible occasion they would remember these sacrifi

Sri Lanka's former president Chandrika Kumaratunga warned of a "short-lived peace" unless the government shares power with the ethnic Tamil minority after the end of the civil war, her office said

An American woman on a visit to Sri Lanka has in a complaint to the Colpetty police alleged that a Sri Lankan youth had spat on her, used criminal force and had insulted her while at a leading shopping mall in Colpetty.

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Local government authorities are planning to provide a proper training for the newly elected councilors of the 65 Local government bodies.This will include law and procedure of the local government system and the tender procedures and carrying out de

UPFA MP Nishantha Muthuhettigama today paid Rs. 18,000 to the Galle Municipal Council in damages after he earlier removed an iron railing of the Galle bus stand. The railing was re-fixed under the protection of the police Special Task Force after dir

The latest Central Bank data has shown that there has been a staggering 736% increase in new registration of motor car from 606 in June 2010 to 5069 in June 2011. The overall increase in new registration of motor vehicles has been arisen by 56%

Sri Lanka will lose USD 13 million of development assistance from the US if it does not address accountability issues raised by Washington, a media report said

Sri Lankan housemaid Rizana Nafeek’s mother Rifana Nafeek has asked the government to take legal action against the foreign employment agency which had sent her daughter to Saudi Arabia after altering her daughter’s age in the passport.

Tamil National Alliance (TNA), which won nearly all the local councils in the Northern and Eastern Provinces at the yesterday’s LG election, said that the Tamil people had voted for a dignified political settlement at this election despite inti

The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) said today the results of Saturday’s local council elections did not reflect the people’s will in a manner that was free and fair.

Two Japanese Naval Ships, Inazuma DD - 105 and Sazanami DD – 113, which belong to the Japan Maritime Self Defence Force (JMSDF) and Two Royal Thai Naval Ships, HTMS Similan and HTMS Narathiwat arrived at the Port of Colombo for logistics suppor

UNP MP Rosy Senanayake today said, it is puzzling that the performance of her party, especially compared to the results of 2006, has deteriorated further. Ms. Senanayake made this point with regard to the UNPs performance at the local government elec

UPFA Candidate G.H.Buddhadasa who contested at the Local Government election for the Kaduwela Municipal Council has topped the list of preferential votes with 29,719 votes, while UPFA’s Buddhika Thusara, backed by Minister Wimal Weerawansa obta

A former senior official at Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) has rejected accusations of conflict of interest for taking up a senior media job while working at the SLC.

The governing United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) has secured a comfortable win at the second phase of the Local Government Election 2011 wining a total of 45 LG bodies out of 65 bodies.  

The UPFA has won the Talawakale-Lindula Urban Council in the Nuwara Eliya district of the Local Government Election 2011. UPFA has received 1988 votes with seven seats, while UNP has got only 1002 votes with two seats. Only six votes were received by

Opposition Leader Ranil Wickramasinghe today left for London to participate in the 57th session of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference

Several independent election monitoring bodies said that a voter turnout of over 50% was recorded at today’s Local Government polls

Following protests from Tamil outfits, a proposed programme to train 25 Sri Lankan soldiers at the Defence Service Staff College at Wellington in nearby Nilgiris district has been cancelled, officials said today

Elections Commissioner Mahinda Deshapriya speaking to Daily Mirror Online a short while ago said that the voter turnout in the Northern Province is quite low at the moment and added that the rate is average in other provinces in which the Local Gover

A bus was set on fire by an unidentified gang in Moragahahena, Horana this morning, Horana police said

President Mahinda Rajapaksa has invited all the Indian Parliamentarians, not only the Central government but also other areas including the Tamil Nadu to visit Sri Lanka’s north to see the ground reality.

A UPFA supporter was shot dead due to what was reported as intra party violence last night in Anuradhapura, Executive Director of PAFFREL Rohan Hettiarachchi told Daily Mirror online

The Malaysian police have detained an Immigration Department officer and a Sri Lankan national under the Internal Security Act for providing false travel documents

At least 80 people are dead as a result of a rampage Friday on a Norwegian island, police said, an attack that came shortly after an explosion killed seven others in the Scandinavian nation's capital

The police department had deployed around 8,000 policemen and 500 personnel from elite Special Task Force (STF) for duty on elections day to maintain law and order in places identified as hot spots by the Elections Commissioner, police sources said.

An iron railing which was removed by UPFA MP Nishantha Muthuhettigama from the newly built Galle bus stand on Thursday (21) was re-fixed under the protection of the police Special Task Force after directions were given by the Southern Provincial Coun