A Sri Lankan man, who was employed as a domestic worker for a Kuwaiti citizen, was arrested yesterday for stealing KD 6,500 from his employer in Riqqa area

Followed by the visit of Economic Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa to New Delhi, India’s External Affairs Minister Salman Kurshid will visit Sri Lanka soon to discuss the political situation in the country.

The UNP parliamentarian Harin Fernando today said opposition members who vociferously blamed the Government were the ones who crossed over. 

St. Peters College won a nail biting encounter against Royal College in the Milo Knockout trophy quarter final played today. The scores were tied at full time and during extra time the scores were still ties at 27. Thereafter the match went into pena

India today emphasised to Sri Lanka the need to fully implement the constitutional provision dealing with devolution of powers to provinces without dilution and to go beyond it to ensure meaningful development there

The Walallawita Pradeshiya Sabha Chairman was arrested today by the Bribery Commission when he was allegedly soliciting a bribe of 2 million Rs from the Chairman of the Benthara Paradeshiya Sabha, the Bribery Commission said.

The Colombo Fort Magistrate today remanded the Assistant Manager of a leading state bank in Colombo, for allegedly soliciting bribes in return for the promise of employment.

A 62-year-old woman was electrocuted when she came in contact with a wire of an electricity transmission unit near D S Senanayake College junction in Borella, police said

The Health Ministry conducted its countrywide Measles Vaccination programme today. A lot of parents were seen attended the programme. Pix by Kushan Pathiraja

Twenty-four fishermen, who were arrested by Sri Lankan naval personnel on June 5 when they were fishing near Katchathivu islet, arrived Rameswaran, Tamil Nady today after a court in the island nation ordered their release, the PTI reported

The office of the United National Party Youth Front was declared open today at ‘Sirikotha’ with the participation of Party Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe, parliamentarians Ruwan Wijewardane, Harin Fernando and Chung Eur Yong, who is Secret

A 65-year-old Estate Superintendent in Nooriyawaththa at Deraniyagala has been hacked to death this morning by a group of unidentified gangsters, police said

A further 15 Sri Lankan irregular maritime arrivals have been returned to Colombo after failing to meet Australia’s international obligations, a spokesman for the Department of Immigration and Citizenship said today

Governors of the North-Western Province and Central Province Tissa R. Balalle and Tikiri Kobbekaduwa confirmed that the two provinces would be dissolved effective from 12.00 midnight today

President Mahinda Rajapaksa issues proclamation to elections commissioner to conduct northern Provincial Council election, government Information department announced

Heavy traffic jam was reported in front of Prince of Wales College, Moratuwa on the Galle Road due to demonstrations by past students and parents against the move to remove the Principal of the School

At least 29 people were injured including the UPFA southern Provincial Council member Aruna Gunarathna following an accident in Kathaluwa Ahangama, this morning

Twelve STF personnel including an ASP and a policeman were arrested by the CID over the killing of five students in Trincomalee in 2006

Cabinet spokesman, Media and Information Minister Keheliya Rambukwella said that his son Ramith was a sleep walker and had even consulted doctors. He surmised that Ramith may have sleep walked during the-flight.

The official launch of Cinnamon Air and the inauguration of the Water’s Edge Water Aerodrome today, under the auspices of Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Secretary to the Ministry of Defence & Urban Development. ???Pix by Nisal Baduge

A Sri Lankan minister Thursday played down intensified diplomatic engagement with India over power devolution to its Tamil minority, saying it was merely to keep New Delhi "informed"

Former DIG Vaas Gunawardena’s wife Priyadarshanie Perera appeared in the Colombo Magistrate’s Court today with her lawyers in response to a notice issued by the court to inquire over an alleged intimidation of a witness in the Bambalapi

The Kandy Teaching Hospital’s Eye Clinic has been closed without prior notice, patients complained today. A senior hospital official said the clinic had to be closed because of an infection and that a process of disinfection was being carried o

A hand grenade was found at Dodangoda on the Southern Expressway (E01) when Road Development Authority (RDA) officials were inspecting the Expressway, Police said today

The organizers of a screening of the controversial Channel 4 documentary on the last stages of the war in Sri Lanka, were detained by the Malaysian Police today, according to the Sri Lankan Ministry of External Affairs

President Mahinda Rajapaksa accepted an invitation from the Secretary-General of the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP) to host the high-level meeting in Sri Lanka in 2014 ???

The wife of the accused former DIG Vaas Gunawardena had been warned today by the Magistrate not to interfere with the witnesses ???

A 26-year-old female teacher of a Colombo school had been allegedly blackmailed into sex by an airman who had an affair with her before she married. The airman had allegedly threatened to post her nude photos and videos on internet, the Police said

One couldn’t blame Minister Keheliya Rambukwella’s son alone for misbehavior in a situation where children of other ministers were also up to various mischief, United National Party (UNP) charged today ???

The country’s powerful Secretary of Defence Gotabaya Rajapaksa spoke to the Daily Mirror in one of his most wide ranging interviews in recent times, on a gamut of issues.  Rajapaksa explained why he believes that devolution of power is not