The Government will lobby against Sri Lankans being categorized as ‘high risk’, at a high level discussion which is set to take place soon between the Ministry of External affairs and the British High Commissioner John Rankin

Editor-in-Chief of Lankadeepa Siri Ranasinghe was re-elected President of the Editors’ Guild of Sri Lanka

Tourism Authority of Thailand (TAT) organised a tourism promotion event called Open Thailand Road Show- 2013 at Hotel Taj Samudra on Monday. The event comprised of speeches from the special guests followed by several dance performances by the dance

Sri Lanka today said that it had ‘kindly declined’ the Indian governments offer to transfer two Sri Lankan military officers undergoing training in the Defence Services Staff Course (DSSC) in Wellington, India to another College in Andhra

Three Sri Lankan refugees and a Nagapattinam-based fisherman, who made an attempt to illegally transport refugees to Australia last week, have been remanded in judicial custody

Two Provincial Councils -the Sabaragamuwa and Southern -today passed resolutions in support of the government’s initial move to repeal two provisions of the 13th Amendment

Renowned Australian Indigenous Dancer, Albert David demonstrating his aborigine cultural dancing skills to the students of the Visual and Performing Arts Faculty of the Colombo University today, at the Performing Arts Theater. Pix by Kushan Pathira

The Sri Lanka Banks Association (Guarantee) Limited today informed all United States citizens living in Sri Lanka to register themselves with their respective banks so as to comply with US legislation termed the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FA

While condemning the probe by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on a book written by UNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe the UNP questioned as to whether the CID had no other important incidents to investigate ???

Vaas Gunawardena being escorted out of the Colombo Magistrates Court after he was re- remanded. The former DIG is accused of the murder of a businessman with the CID investigating several other murders suspected to have been committed with his i

The wife of Vaas Gunawardena , Shyamalee Priyadarshani was ordered to appear before the court on July, for allegedly threatening witnesses. ???

A buse transporting garment factory workers and two carrying members of the public collided early this morning at  Habaraduwa Galle, injuring 16 people the police said.

The Puttalam Divisional Secretary and his driver were alleged to have been assaulted by several villagers in Kaladi.PICTURES

Militants have attacked security forces near the presidential palace in the centre of the Afghan capital, Kabul.???

Sri Lanka's minister for external affairs GL Peiris says he can guarantee the safety of people returning to Sri Lanka after failed asylum seeker claims in countries such as Australia.

Annual Mihindu Perahara organized by Pothgul Maha Vihara Heenatiyana Gampaha was held for the 172nd time yesterday with the special floats made into the shape of various animals. This was held to mark the Poson poya on Sunday. Pix by Pradeep Pathir

A host of senior government Ministers representing the left and the SLFP said today that the government had a silent majority to defeat any attempt to curtail the 13th Amendment.???

Bowing to pressures from Pro-Eelam Tamil outfits and Tamil Nadu Government over their training in Defence Service Staff College in Wellington in neighbouring Nilgiris district, two Sri Lankan Military personnel left Tamil Nadu this evening.

In what could be termed as a dramatic news conference in recent times, a host of senior government Ministers representing the SLFP and the left said that the government has a silent majority to defeat any attempt to curtail the 13th amendment.??? P

A ship, which anchored at the Colombo harbour, with 40,000 metric tonnes of substandard diesel was rejected by the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation, official sources said

At least two passengers were killed and several others injured when they fell off the train near BahinaThotupala in Angulana, police said.

Colombo High Court today issued summons for the second time on former Army Commander Sarath Fonseka to appear in the High Court on September 23 to give evidence for the prosecution in the case where three LTTE cadres are accused of having attempted t

Britain today said that it is deeply disappointed that the murder trial of British citizen Khuram Shaikh, and assault on his partner Victoria, had not yet commenced and the call for the perpetrators of this crime to be brought to justice continues.

A final decision on the private bus fares increase will be taken after the private bus operators submit their proposals to the National Transport Commission (NTC) on Thursday, Private Transport Services Minister C.B. Ratnayaka said.

A 29-year-old Chinese is reported to have died yesterday after he fell off a flyover, which was above 50 feet above the ground.

A Fogging Machine manufacturing company based in Republic of Korea donated fogging machines to Municipal Councils of Colombo, Dehiwala Mt. Lavinia and Moratuwa today at Colombo Municipal Council premise. Pix by Pradeep Dilrukshana

Former Minister and current UNP strongman Mangala Samaraweera in an interview with the Daily Mirror said today that there was no computer jilmart’  during the 2010 Presidential Election and President Mahinda Rajapaksa won the elections wit

A jury of five men and seven women have been chosen for the trial of two Sri Lankan men who allegedly murdered Sameera Chandrasena.

India has added the Champions Trophy title to the World Cup they won two years ago, seeing off England by five runs in the Champions Trophy final at Edgbaston.

Defending the India's UPA government's stand on allowing training of Sri Lankan defence personnel in the country, Union Minister E M Sudarshan Nathchiyappan today said India cooperated with the neighbouring country as it did not want Lanka to