Australia, which hosts one of the largest Sri Lankan Diasporas overseas, will make it more difficult to gain citizenship in a major overhaul of its migration process, the BBC reported yesterday.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday decided to accede to a request by the JO for a Parliamentary debate on the collapse of the Meethotamulla garbage dump in Kolonnawa.

A fee being levied from the people by the relevant local government (LG) bodies for the collection of their garbage might bring about a positive change in attitude among the population, Chairman of the Urban Development Authority (UDA) Dr. Jagath Mun

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremsinghe will visit India next week to set the agenda for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s trip to Colombo in May.

A gunman wielding an assault rifle on Thursday night killed a police officer on Paris’s most iconic boulevard, the Champs-Élysées, stirring France’s worst fears of a terrorist attack, which could tip voting in a hotly contes

A tense atmosphere prevailed in Manikkamadu area, in Ampara yesterday when a group of Muslims protested against constructing a building for the historic Manikkamadu temple that has one of the Cheithiyas surrounding the Deegavapi Cheithiya.

President Maithripala Sirisena this evening approved an extraordinary gazette making garbage disposal services by all local government bodies an ‘essential service’ with effect from Thursday’s midnight.

Western Province Chief Minister Isuru Devapriya today said there are about 25 garbage dumping areas in the Western Province and those areas could be cleared after three years if the government gives full powers to the Western Provincial Council.

The issue of garbage management should be considered as an essential service immediately and a separate authority should be set up to streamline garbage management, Megapolis and Western Development Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka today said.

The Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) today threatened to launch a major trade union action within the next fortnight over the South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine (SAITM) issue.

A 35-year-old Sri Lankan maid who had allegedly stolen items worth Dirham 200,000 from her Emirati sponsor had been arrested upon her return to the country seven years later, the National UAE reported on Thursday.

The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) said today it was planning to take legal action against the authorities responsible for the Meethotamulla catastrophe alleging that the authorities purposely neglected the threat to the lives of residents despite r

Police used teargas and water cannons to disperse the protesters at Maligawatta in Dompe who were protesting against the move to dump garbage collected from Colombo at the Maligawatta garbage recycling plant

The Grodno State Medical University, in the Republic of Belarus (an eastern European country) intends to open a branch in Sri Lanka; the BelTA news agency reported quoting the university's Rector Viktor Snezhitsky.

A large stock of 32,000 Lt. of Glyphosate which was banned to import to Sri Lanka was seized by the Customs Preventive Unit today, Customs Media Spokesman Dharmasena Kahandawa said.

This is the shocking moment a vile racist spat in the face of a Sri Lankan shopkeeper in an off-licence - because she did not have the right brand of cigarettes.

A 30-year-old Austin woman won a new car on Wednesday by keeping her lips locked on it for 50 hours.

West Australian cattle exporter Wellard will soon be looking for dairy heifers from Australia to fill contracts it has in Sri Lanka.

Sanath Jayasuriya is set to secure another term as Head of Cricket Selection Committee but the Board is looking at changes to the rest of the committee as their term will come to an end on May 1.

President Maithripala Sirisena today said there will be changes in the government activities within the next two weeks, including changes in heads of state institutions. He said this would entail in how things would be done by the government as well

The Malaysian High Court today dismissed an application to transfer a criminal trial involving a Sri Lankan envoy from the Sepang court to Kuala Lumpur on security grounds, the Free Malaysia Today reported.

A retired Judge would be appointed to investigate those, who are responsible for Meethotamulla garbage dump tragedy, President Maithripala Sirisena said today.

Four persons were killed on the spot including a Sri Lankan and three others injured when a lorry rammed a roadside dhaba at RV Nagar in GK Veedhi of Visakhapatnam Agency on Wednesday evening.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is to have bilateral discussions with the Lankan leaders on the sidelines of UN Vesak Day celebrations here, on matters of mutual interests and concern, including the proposal for joint development of the oil tank

The Indian government decided on Wednesday to ban red beacons atop cars of all ministers, politicians and bureaucrats, ending a privilege that was seen as the ultimate status symbol.

Western Province Chief Minister Isura Devapriya yesterday said that he was not informed about the decision to temporarily dump garbage collected in Colombo at Karadiyana, after a section of Meethotamulla garbage dump collapsed recently.

The government will prohibit cigarette sales within a periphery of 500 metres from schools, Health Minister Dr. Rajitha Senaratne said yesterday.