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.

Three people were killed when a three-wheeler collided head-on with a tipper truck at Potuhera on the Colombo-Kurunegala road this morning, Police said.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe left for Japan early this morning on a five-day official visit with a ten-member delegation.

The Parliamentary authorities had made fresh reminders to the Agriculture Ministry asking that it be shifted elsewhere from its current location in Rajamalwatte Mawatha, Battaramulla for the building to be used by them in administrative work.

A high profile Russian escort service carried out via the internet, serving the rich, was busted by the Immigration Department special unit who also took five Russian female sex workers into custody in Colombo last week.

Highways and Higher Education Minister Lakshman Kirella criticized the Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) saying it had no right to interfere in Sri Lanka’s medical education.

The Health Ministry had taken steps to publish a Gazette notification of minimum standards for Medical Colleges, according to sources.

The Cabinet Sub Committee appointed to work out guidelines for leasing out the Hambantota Port, had taken up for consideration, among others, a proposal to reduce the lease term from 99 years to 50 years, it is learnt.

The Government has spent Rs. 8 bn in compensations to 4,000 employees of the Sri Lanka Transport Board (SLTB), who had retired voluntarily from the service.

With Sri Lanka staring at one of the worst droughts in the last four decades, India has provided an emergency assistance of water and rice to the Island country.

The China National Machinery Import and Export Corporation engaged in the extension work on the Matara-Beliatta railway line has sought police protection after a man who broke into the room of one of its employees had slashed him with a knife before

The Tamil youth held under detention as political prisoners, could be given bail in the same way Opposition MP Wimal Weerawansa was granted bail, Minister of National Co-Existence Mano Ganesan had urged President Maithripala Sirisena in a letter.

The Gazette notification regulating the use of full face helmets would be amended after the New Year festival, as ordered by Minister of Law and Order Sagala Ratnayaka, National Council for Road Safety (NCRS) said today.

The sun coming directly above Sri Lanka and a drop in winds had caused the excessive heat in most part of the country, the Department of Meteorology said today.

The high temperature in the island may affect the children and the elderly people causing dehydration, the Colombo National Hospital (CNH) warned today.

Asserting that the BJP-led government at the Centre was taking serious steps to bring a lasting solution to the fishermen issue, Rajya Sabha member and senior party leader L. Ganesan said efforts were made to secure the release of the trawlers impoun

Two persons aged 27, were killed and another was injured when a three-wheeler and a lorry collided head-on at the Kongasdeniya Junction in Nittambuwa on the Colombo-Kandy Main Road early this morning.

A male and female doctor had been arrested by the Maradana Police last evening when they attempted to climb on to the water tank at the Colombo National Hospital (CNH), the Police said.

A 42-year-old man and his 36-year-old wife were killed in a suspected electrocution accident in their house at Sellachchi in Chunnakam last night, Police said.  

The body of an unidentified woman was found in the Kelani River near the Mewellapara embankment in Peliyagoda last evening, Police said.

Two chefs had been arrested in connection with the incident where three persons died and another 203 were hospitalized due to suspected food poisoning at a ceremony held in Wanagamuwa Jumma Mosque in Eragama, Ampara last Wednesday, Police said.