A team of experts with some sense of diplomatic relations should be sent to Russia which suspended the import of Sri Lankan tea, joint opposition member and Parliamentarian Bandula Gunawardana said today.

President Maithripala Sirisena and the visiting Prime Minister of Malaysia Dato’ Sri Mohd Najib bin Tun Abdul Razak today agreed to expand existing close cooperation in many fields including trade and investment, agriculture and intelligence ex

Former presidential secretary Lalith Weeratunge reported to the Police Special Investigation Unit (SIU) this morning to give a statement in connection with a misappropriation of state funds when purchasing vehicles for the Presidential Secretariat, P

The Lotus Road from Ceramic Junction towards Galle Road is temporarily closed due to a protest march by the Postal Department employees, Police said.

The local government polls will be conducted on February 10 next year, Elections Commission Chairman Mahinda Deshapriya said today.

The SLFP nomination file for a Local Government body has been robbed by a man after assaulting the list bearer at Pokunuwita in Horana yesterday evening.

Arrangements have been made to hear 20 court cases dealing with corruption on a daily basis with a view of expediting the process of penalising wrongdoers, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said yesterday.

In its effort to secure a lift of the restriction on tea trade, the Sri Lanka embassy in Moscow initiated communication with the Russian authorities and await a response, an official here said yesterday.

Employees attached to Sri Lanka Postal Department is to resort to stern actions demanding the government to make it 'closed department' , Co-convener of the Postal Front H.K. Kariyawasam said today.

Sri Lanka hosted 50 young Chinese couples as they entered into wedlock in a glittering wedding ceremony held at the Town-hall Grounds today, further boosting the tourist potential Sri Lanka in the eyes of the world and promoting it as an ideal destin

The Joint Opposition said it had decided to hold a discussion with the Governor of the Central Bank on matters related to finance of the country.

Island wide raids would be conducted from January 2018 by the officials of the Health and Indigenous Medicine Ministry backed by Police to nab 30,000 quacks in the country, Health and Indigenous Medicine Minister Dr. Rajitha Senaratne said.

President Maithripala Sirisena said today that he would make an official request from Russian President Vladimir Putin to withdraw the temporary ban on Sri Lanka tea imports.

Leaders must recognise, promote, protect the specific collective identities of their nations, but they must also open up to the globalised world, former executive president of Sri Lanka Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga said in Panaji in India yeste

A 54-year-old Chinese man who was working on the Outer Circular Highway (OCH) from Kadawatha to Kerawalapitiya in Mahabage, died after he fell off a construction machine yesterday.

Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak arrived in Sri Lanka this morning for three-day official visit.

Education Minister Akila Viraj Kariyawasam yesterday directed the officials to take stern disciplinary action against school principals who were having commercial motives in the process of distributing school uniform vouchers, without offering them t

Local Government and Provincial Councils Minister Faizer Musthapha yesterday castigated two Muslim ministers for what he described as their ‘racist attitude’ by not being present at the voting on the local government electoral amendments.

SriLankan Airlines Chairman Ajith Dias yesterday said a communiqué forwarded by the Alliance of Unions – SriLankan Airlines, was contradictory and not at all consistent with the assurances or the spirit of co-operation given at

Former Navy Spokesperson Commander D.K.P Dassanayake’s daughter told the media yesterday that her request to meet and lodge a complaint about her father’s detention by the Sri Lankan law enforcement authority, to the visiting three-member

Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) General Secretary Tilvin Silva said his party was in a victorious position even prior to the election on the basis of having all its nomination lists accepted by the returning officers unlike some of the other politica

Mist is likely at some places in the Western, North-Western, Sabaragamuwa and Central Provinces during the morning, the Department of Meteorology said yesterday.

The Mahajana Eksath Peramuna (MEP) yesterday denounced the decision taken by its MP Sriyani Wijewickrama in joining the anti-people government led by the United National Party.

The Sri Lanka Tea Board said today that the detection of an insect which led to the temporary ban of Ceylon Tea imports into Russia may have been an isolated incident, and that Plantation Industries Minister Navin Dissanayake would visit Russia to cl