Claiming that former President Ranil Wickremesinghe is now too late to talk about the Batalanda Commission report, Minister Nalinda Jayatissa said yesterday the government will take legal action based on the report.

Taking up a debate on a sessional paper which had been presented to Parliament nearly 25 years ago is against both Sri Lankan and global parliamentary tradition.

Wijeya Newspapers Ltd will sponsor the illumination of the Thanthirimale Temple and the Chaithiya to mark the Poson festival this year.

The Department of Excise, the competent authority managing the liquor industry is left with no other option but to seek the Attorney General’s assistance to deal with the Rs.5.8 billion tax evading W. M. Mendis and Co.,

Sidath Dhammika, the former superintendent of Boossa Prison, was shot and killed yesterday in the Thalagaha area of Akmeemana, Galle, allegedly by underworld criminals.

Responding to claims made by the Government Radiology Technologists Association regarding the malfunction of three out of the five linear accelerators at the Maharagama Apeksha Hospital, the hospital management clarified the situation.

According to the US embassy, Marshall Islands-registered Celestite Maritime Inc. and Sri Lanka-based Marine Solution Pvt. Ltd. serve as the registered owner and technical manager of Barbados-flagged SHANNON II, which was designated for shipping Irani

An Australian man with heart failure has become the first person in the world to walk out of a hospital with a total artificial heart implant, The Guardian reported.

Officers from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) conducted a search at the house of former Parliamentarian Sagala Ratnayaka in Morawaka, Matara, on Tuesday as part of ongoing efforts to locate former Inspector General of Police (IGP) Deshaba

The suspect, who has a criminal history, was previously a disrobed Buddhist monk and an army deserter.

Medical professionals have strongly opposed the Excise Department’s plan to introduce a lower-priced alcohol product calling it a move that will fuel consumption rather than curb illicit alcohol use.

The Court of Appeal yesterday fixed for March 17 to deliver its order on whether or not to issue an interim order preventing the arrest of Inspector General of Police (IGP) Deshabandu Tennakoon in connection with the Weligama hotel shooting incident.

Opposition MP Sujith Sanjaya Perera yesterday proposed the government to offer at least Rs. 500 or Rs. 1,000 in cash to people who capture toque monkeys as a solution to the crop damage caused by animals. >>A2

Deputy Minister of Vocational Education Nalin Hewage has proposed relocating toque monkeys to an island and feeding them daily, similar to an alms-giving tradition, as a solution to the ongoing toque monkey menace that is causing significant crop dam

The Attorney General informed the Supreme Court yesterday that authorities have yet to trace the whereabouts of Jude Shamantha Jayamaha, who was sentenced to death in connection with the Royal Park murder case. Therefore, the CID has launched an inve

Startling revelations have now emerged how building materials for the renovation of Mahinda Rajapaksa’s official residence have been purchased from selected suppliers on the direction of the Project Engineer Lt. Com. Aravinda of the Sri Lanka Navy.

Sri Lanka is to get into a joint project with India to design and implement its own digital identity system to register and authenticate its citizens while there will be a second project to develop an electronic national identity card, it was reveale

The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Lands, and Irrigation has revealed that Rs. 2.4 million has been spent on printing documents related to the upcoming census of wild animals that damage agricultural crops.

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake yesterday instructed the Department of Excise to effectively regulate the alcohol industry in the country to increase state revenue generation, thus supporting economic growth and countering illicit liquor.

Visiting American singer and entrepreneur Aloe Blacc said it is very special to have the opportunity to work with Sri Lankan government and the National Initiative for Research and Development Commercialisation (NIRDC).

A two-month-old male infant who had been abandoned by the roadside at Devagoda in Madampe off Ambalangoda was recovered by Ambalangoda Police yesterday morning. The infant, wrapped in a piece of cloth and left near a garden wall, was crying when the

Four former presidents are at the state ceremony to confer the ‘Sannas Patra’ on the Supreme Mahanayake of the Sri Lanka Amarapura Maha Nikaya Venerable Karagoda Uyangoda Maithri Murthi Maha Thero which was held at the Bandaranaike Memorial Inter

A house built in Kataragama for former President Mahinda Rajapaksa has prompted an investigation by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID). Dishan Gunasekara, the Basnayake Nilame (chief lay custodian) of the Ruhunu Kataragama Maha Devalaya, wa

In a bid to attract over 40% of the country’s illicit liquor drinkers into a much safer drinking culture the Department of Excise is mulling to introduce a new ‘quarter’ bottle with a lesser strength of arrack for an affordable price to match

American musician and entrepreneur Aloe Blacc is arriving in Sri Lanka today to seek investment opportunities in Sri Lanka, a spokesman for the President’s Media Division (PMD) said.

Four hill country leopards have been killed in various incidents in the Nuwara Eliya District alone within 68 days, officers of the Wildlife Conservation Department said.

Some 22,450 institutions have failed to pay EPF to its employees since 2015 to date, it was disclosed in Parliament.

In the wake of demand for investment in recreational aviation activities such as baloon rides and para gliding, the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA )is planning for designation of areas so that fun flying does not pose obstruction to international and

The suspicious behaviour of two young men frequenting the entrance to Thalawila St. Anne’s Church in Kalpitiya during the vespers on Saturday evening (08) prior to the beginning of the Lent Season last morning led to their arrest.

Government would explore the possibility of recovering the loss by charging the actual prices from the recipients of these houses