While welcoming the UN Human Rights High Commissioner’s latest report on Sri Lanka, the Global Tamil Forum (GTF) urged the UN Human Rights Council to adopt a new resolution on the country.

President Maithripala Sirisena has appointed businessman A. S. P. Liyanage as the Sri Lankan Ambassador to Qatar, Mr. Liyanage told the Daily Mirror today.

Refugee claims have been filed in Canada on behalf of the Sri Lankan and Philippine asylum seekers who sheltered former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden in Hong Kong in 2013, lawyers involved in the matter had revealed on Thursday.

Today’s Parliament session was adjourned till March 21 by Speaker Karu Jayasuriya a short while ago following a tense situation between MPs of the government and the joint opposition.

Lashing out at the political parties demanding the retrieval of Katchatheevu from Sri Lanka, Indian Union Minister of State for Road Transport, Highways and Shipping Pon Radhakrishnan had asserted that retrieving the islet will not solve the Indian f

Former Central Bank governor Arjuna Mahendran arrived at the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) appointed to look into the Bond Sale issue, a short while ago to give his  evidence.

The government is mulling over the possibility of conducting polls to all provincial councils on a single day rather than having staggered elections, it is learnt.

The Parakrama Samudra in Polonnaruwa reached spill level on the day before yesterday due to heavy rain experienced in the area.

The Education Ministry had issued fixed dates for the release of Grade Five Scholarship, G.C.E. Ordinary Level and G.C.E Advance Level examination results each year, Education Minister Akila Viraj Kariyawasam said yesterday.

A 33-year-old man was arrested with 1.3 kilograms of heroin worth Rs.10 million by the Police Narcotic Bureau (PNB) last night, Police said.

The authorities running the South Asian Institute of Technology and Management (SAITM) in Malabe behave more or less like underworld figures rather than administrators of an institution, Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka told Parliament yesterday.

The Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) yesterday threatened to resort to major trade union action next week if the committee appointed by President Maithripala Sirisena to probe the SAITM issue does not give its final decision with

The Committee for protecting rights of prisoners vehemently condemned the Government's alleged attempt to hold back the 2012 November 9 brutal killing of prisoners during the prison riot, by compensating the victims and their families

Two suspects, including an individual going by the name ‘Anguruwathota Pinuma’, who had been wanted for a series of burglaries including the break-in that occurred at the home of National cricketer Kusal Mendis in Gorakana, were arrested

Joint opposition Chief Organiser MP Dullas Alahapperuma said today a political conspiracy was behind the suspension of their leader MP Dinesh Gunawardane and this was an attempt to silence their voices.

The body of a man was found hanging in a lavatory near the number one platform of the Fort Railway Station this evening, a senior Railway official said.

Three teenagers had brutally attacked a Sri Lankan shopkeeper, repeatedly kicking him in the face and screaming ‘Stay down you dirty p***’at Norris Green in Liverpool, UK.

Speaker Karu Jayasuriya today turned down a request made by the joint opposition to appoint MP Dullas Alahapperuma as its acting group leader in place of MP Dinesh Gunawardene who has been suspended from the House for a week.

President Maithripala Sirisena today said the evidence given by a former lady superintendent of the Central Bank was the factual, correct and steady evidence given by any witness called before the Presidential Commission to investigate allegations ag

The Commissioners of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) appointed to look into the Bond Sale issue today severely criticized Joint Opposition MP Bandula Gunawardane for making false comments to the media and advised the MP to prevent from

The second, third and fourth year Arts Faculty students of the Colombo University were placed out of bounds following a clash that took place yesterday, Vice Chancellor Prof. Lakshman Dissanayake said today.

Northamptonshire have re-signed Sri Lanka international spinner Seekkuge Prasanna for the T20 Blast.

Tamil Nadu fishermen and family members, who are protesting against Sri Lankan Navy for shooting down an Indian fisherman, demanded the Indian Central government to prosecute the Lankan Navy personnel under the Indian Law, the Indian Express reported

A Sri Lankan wanted for sexually abusing mostly young children had been arrested by the Philippine Police early this week in Cabanatuan, Nueva Ecija, a news article published on Interaksyon news portal said on Thursday.

Nine fishermen were arrested by the Trincomalee Anti-Corruption Unit yesterday for killing 12 dolphins, Police said.

A 20-year-old youth was arrested this morning in connection with the killing of two in Deraniyagala on March 6, the Police said.

The token strike, which was launched by the Federation of University Teachers' Association (FUTA) had been conditionally suspended with immediate effect due to a sudden decision made at the association ExCo meeting, Assistant Secretary Athulasiri