Three explosions have hit a bus carrying the Borussia Dortmund football team to their home Champions League quarter-final match against Monaco.

All security matters in the Hambantota Port will be handled by the Sri Lankan Navy, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said yesterday.

The South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine (SAITM) said yesterday it was willing to cooperate with the Government in formalising a just and expeditious solution for its MBBS students subject to court proceedings.

President Maithripala Sirisena said today the income from the taxes for liquor and cigarettes had been reduced for the first time of the history.

Public interest lawyer Dharshana Weraduwage today filed a petition seeking a determination from the Supreme Court on the Bill titled, Foreign Exchange 2017.

There are MBBS students at the South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine (SAITM) with only three ordinary passes in the biology stream at the GCE (A/L), SAITM said today.

The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) today accused the Lanka India Oil Company (LIOC) of illegally holding on to the oil tanks in Trincomalee.

Patients suffering from the viral flu will experience coughing as a after effect for at least two weeks after being cured, Colombo National Hospital (CNH) Director Anil Jasinghe said today.

Supreme Court Judge K. Sisira De Abrew was sworn in as the Acting Chief Justice before President Maithripala Sirisena at the President’s Official Residence today.

UPFA MP Johnston Fernando was removed from the post of SLFP Electorate Organiser for Nikaweratiya, party General Secretary Minister Mahinda Amaraweera said today.

At least 30,000 small bottles of snuff and 2,000 kilos of Beedi leaves worth Rs. 8 million were seized by the customs officials at the Peliyagoda container yard this morning.

Seven Sri Lankan fishermen, who were apprehended by the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) personnel on April 4 on charges of illegal fishing in Indian waters, were brought from Puzhal central Prison to Thoothukudi on Monday amidst tight security, the Hindu re

The 15 undergraduates of the Peradeniya University, who were arrested on charges of ragging a group of first-year students, were further remanded till April 24 by Kandy Chief Magistrate Indika Gihan Attanayake today.

Sports Minister Dayasiri Jayasekera was appointed as the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) Organiser for the Panduwasnuwara electorate by party Chairman President Maithripala Sirisena at his Official Residence today.  

New Year sales have dropped by 40 per cent when compared with last year because of the reduced purchasing power of the people, says Hemaka Fernando, the spokesman for the Association of Importers of Essential Commodities (AIEC).

The Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) has informed the Steering Committee working on constitutional proposals that it was only supportive of constitutional reforms which does not require the approval by the people at a referendum.

The minimum qualification for student admission to a Government or Private medical college should be at least two credit passes and an Ordinary pass ( C 2, S 1) in the biology stream at the GCE (A/L), according to the minimum standards prepared by th

Some 900 uniformed staff members of the Sri Lanka Excise Department are bewildered and agitated over a decision taken by the department’s Chief Auditor to collect all raided liquor stocks from countrywide stations and distribute them only among

Sports Minister, Dayasiri Jayasekera said he would prefer to be the SLFP organizer of Panduwasnuwara if the post was offered to him.

A Sri Lankan man who had a murder charge dropped last week after a judge ruled it took too long to bring him to trial is facing deportation from Canada because he has a criminal record, Montreal Gazette reported.

The government will be in a position to set up the Truth Commission soon and to gazette the Office of Missing Persons (OMP) under a selected ministry, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr. Harsha De Silva said today.

A female graduate, who is a development officer, was arrested by the Pallewela Police for allegedly pouring boiling water on her 73-year-old mother.  

China and Sri Lanka are traditional good neighbours and their people have enjoyed long history of exchanges, Chinese top political advisor Yu Zhengsheng has said.

Former Sri Lankan cricketer Bertie Wijesinhe passed away at the age of 96 on Saturday, the Cricket Country reported today.    

A freight train carrying fuel to Kankesanthurai, Jaffna from Colombo derailed in Vavuniya this morning, the Vavuniya Railway Control Unit said.The train had travelled in an unused railway track and had crashed into the quarters of the railway officia

Egypt's President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi has announced a three-month state of emergency after attacks on two Coptic churches that left at least 44 dead, the BBC reported today.