Three women, including the manager of a brothel at Attidiya, Mount Lavinia, were arrested by the Mt. Lavinia Police yesterday, Police said.

Five people have died and at least 40 were injured after an attacker drove a car along a pavement in Westminster, stabbed a policeman and was shot dead by police in the grounds of Parliament.

The officials of the Air Intelligence and Customs at Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) in Bangalore arrested a 39-year-old Sri Lankan woman, who was smuggling contraband drugs to Colombo, last week.

The Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) on Wednesday wrote to Inspector General of Police (IGP) Pujith Jayasundara requesting for his immediate intervention to punish the wrongdoers in connection with the issues of the South Asian I

A British foreign minister bloodied his hands attempting to save the life of a police officer who was stabbed on the grounds of Britain's Parliament in what was described Wednesday as a "terrorist incident."

An assailant stabbed a policeman, two civilians and was shot dead by police just outside Britain's parliament building in London on Wednesday in what police described as a “terrorist incident”.

Business leader Rajah Nanayakkara has passed away on Tuesday in Singapore, at the age of 77.

United Nations High commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid al-Hussein told the 34th regular session of the Human Rights Council in Geneva today that they continue to underscore the concept of hybrid court to Sri Lanka to utilize an accountability mechan

Foreign Affairs Deputy Minister Harsha De Silva a short while ago told the 34th session of the UNHRC that Sri Lanka will be co-sponsoring a Resolution with the United States and the other main co-sponsors of previous resolution (30/1) on the country

An assailant was shot outside the British parliament by armed police, the leader of the House of Commons said on Wednesday after loud bangs were heard and a Reuters photographer saw at least a dozen injured people on a nearby bridge.

The debate on Sri Lanka at the 34th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council began a short while ago.

Deputy Minister Ranjan Ramanayake said today he appreciated the Joint Opposition's move to lodge complaints with the Bribery Commission (BC) against the government politicians what they termed as "Top Ten" because it was easy to identif

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s assurance that the Government would only allow the participation of foreign observers and not foreign judges in an accountability mechanism to look into war crime charges was untrue and dishonest, the Joint

The Government had approved the Legal Draftsman to amend the Ordinance to make provisions to increase the fine on owners of stray dogs to Rs. 25,000 and the imprisonment to two years, Mass Media Minister Gayantha Karunathilaka said today.

Major General Mahesh Senanayake has been appointed as the Army Chief of staff by President Maithripala Sirisena today, Defence Secretary Karunasena Hettiarachchi said.

A Sri Lankan national allegedly assaulted two women sexually and physically in Bandar Baru Uda in Malaysia, the Malaysian media reported.

Tax concessions were not given to the Northern and Uva Provinces to open up liquor distilleries or to create employment through them, Minister of Megapolis and Western Development Patali Champika Ranawaka said today.

The Colombo Chief Magistrate today issued a warrant for the arrest of the Secretary to the Ministry of Power and Energy, B. N. S. Batagoda for not appearing in court as a witness for the persecution in the bribery case filed against Former Deputy Min

The student of the Mahanama College, who had been arrested for forcibly entering Yashodara Balika Vidyalaya, was ordered to be sent yesterday to the Probationary and Child Care Centre in Makola until March 31 by the Hulftsdorp Magistrate’s Cour

NFF Leader MP Wimal Weerawansa has commenced a hunger strike this morning at the Magazine Prison, Prisons Spokesperson Thushara Upuldeniya said.

The body of a 52-year-old man was found at a hotel room in Maradana yesterday.

A decomposed body was found on a boulder situated at the edge of the Walathwewa in Ambanpola last night, police said.

Police Special Task Force (STF) yesterday arrested one of the main suspects known as ‘Battaramulle Banti’ in connection with the attack on the prison bus in Kalutara.