The Chief Ministerial nominees and nominees for bonus seats will be nominated by the UPFA after a gazette notification is issued by the Elections Commissioner, UPFA General Secretary Susil Premjayantha said today.

Government Ministers share a moment after the news conference held to review the concluded election results. During the conference the government said that the election results including that of the North were a victory for the ruling coalition. Pix

Economic Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa today said the government was willing to work together with the TNA and hold discussions within the framework of the Constitution.

The United States today said that it was concerned about reports of elections violence, particularly troubling have been reports of involvement by ‘uniformed’ individuals in these acts.

Tamil National Alliance Chief Ministerial candidate C.V.Wigneshwaran has topped the preference vote list in the Jaffna district with 132255 votes, while Ananthi Shashitharan obtained 87870 and D. Siddhartha 39715 votes.

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Sunday requested Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to facilitate a dialogue between fishermen associations in the state and Sri Lanka here in December following frequent attacks and arrests of fishermen by naval

Supporters of UPFA candidate Pramitha Bandara Tennakoon celebrating victory, after he topped the Matale District preferential vote list securing 51,591 votes at the Central Provincial Council elections. Pix by Kanchana Ariyadasa

A bomb blast outside a church in the Pakistani city of Peshawar kills at least 40 people and injured more than 40, medics say

An eye clinic and blood donation campaign organised by the Wijayaba Welfare Society at Kalapaluwewa was held today. UNP Parliamentarian Eran Wickramaratne and Western Provincial Councillor Roger Seneviratne participated at the event. Pix by Waruna Wa

UPFA candidate Pramitha Bandara Tennakoon, son of Minister Janaka Bandara Tennakoon, has obtained the highest number of preferential votes from the Matale District securing 51,591 votes at the Central Provincial Council electionsPictures

Twenty fishermen from coastal town were arrested by Sri Lankan naval personnel when they were fishing in the Palk Straits early this morning, a top fisheries department official said

The UPFA secured a convincing victory in the North Western and Central Provincial Council elections obtaining 34 seats in the NWP and 36 seats in the CP View Results

President Mahinda Rajapaksa, left this morning on a five-day visit to New York to address the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), at the UN headquarters in New York, the President’s Office said.

The Tamil National Alliance has won the northern provincial council election as it bagged 30 seats out of 38, official results show.

The Tamil National Alliance has secured the postal votes in the Mullaitivu and the Kilinochchi districts with 646 votes (81.26%) and 756 votes (82%) respectively, in the Northern Provincial Council election, concluded this evening.

Former Sri Lankan cricket captain Mahela Jayawardena was one of the 267 passengers on board the SriLankan Airlines flight that made an emergency landing in Stanstead Airport, London today, the Daily Mirror online learns.

Elections Commissioner Mahinda Deshapriya said that the elections were by large free and fair and the results of the elections in the three provinces could be expected before 6 am on Sunday.

Typhoon fighter jets of the Royal Air Force were scrambled on Friday night after reports of a disturbance on an aircraft, the UK's Ministry of Defence has confirmed.

An awareness march organised by Lanka Alzheimer’s Foundation to mark the World Alzeimer day (September 21) began today from the Cinnamon Grand hotel and marched towards Bambalapitiya. Pix by Waruna Wanniarachchi

At least seven people were injured in a stampede that ensued after a group fired into the air near the Kelabokke polling booth at Panvila in Kandy this afternoon, election monitors said

New Zealand Prime Minister John Key and Queen Elizabeth II are to discuss about Sri Lanka which is hosting the next Commonwealth heads of Government meeting in November, One news Channel reported

Hawalli patrolmen apprehended a Sri Lankan expatriate in Kuwait for possessing drug paraphernalia, reports Al-Seyassah daily

A voter turnout of about 30 - 35% was recorded in Jaffna by 10 am at today’s Northern Provincial Council election and election monitoring bodies have claimed a lack of enthusiasm among voters during the ongoing Provincial Council polls held in

Ethnic Tamils wait in line to cast their votes at a polling station during the first provincial polls in 25 years in Jaffna today-Reuters

The United Nations' top human rights official lashed back Friday at the Sri Lankan government, accusing some of its most senior officials of waging a disinformation campaign aimed at discrediting her and her office

Bio-anthologists from the Oxford and Cambridge universities will arrive in Sri Lanka in November to enhance studies on the recently unearthed human skeletal remains from the Kuragala prehistoric site, the Archaeology Department said yesterday

Two people were killed when a lorry collided head on with a car at Aladeniya on Katugastota-Kurunegala road last night, police said

Voting at the North, North Western and Central Provinces began at 7.00 am this morning  and will continue till 4.00pm in the evening today

A Sri Lankan Airlines plane travelling from Colombo to Heathrow was forced to make an emergency landing at Stansted Airport in London, police said

Ballot boxes from different villages and divisional secretariat areas will be shuffled together for the first time at the counting of votes in tomorrow’s provincial council election to ensure secrecy on how people in a certain area have voted,