Counter objections by the Bribery Commission for the five cases filed against Major Neville Wanniarchchi, former security chief of former President Mahinda Rajapakse, was fixed for March 7 by Colombo Additional Magistrate Aruni Attigalle today.  

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) to be meeting in Geneva from 13 February to 3 March to review women’s rights in eight countries including Sri Lanka, United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Comm

The government has approved a draft of laws to regulate how elephants are kept, including banning the use of animals under the age of five for work, the Deutsche Welle (DW) reported yesterday.

Eight patients confirmed to be infected with the H1N1 virus are undergoing treatment at the Bibila Hospital in isolation, Hospital Director Dr. Y.M. Sunil Senarath said today.

Chairman of National Cricket Selectors Sanath Jayasuriya urged local cricket authorities to work out a long term strategy which will help players perform better outside their comfort zone.

India misinterpreted the Rajapaksa administration’s relationship with China, but is silent on the current government’s engagement with the rising super power, Sri Lankan parliamentarian Namal Rajapaksa, the eldest son of former President

The police report on the shooting at the SAITM Chief Executive Officer's vehicle will be submitted to Parliament no sooner the investigations are over, Prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said yesterday.

New laws will be introduced with regard to protests soon, Minister of Law and Order Sagala Ratnayake informed Parliament yesterday.

Clinical South Africa withstood an Upul Tharanga onslaught to register a nervy 40-run win over Sri Lanka in the fourth ODI played at the Newlands Cricket Grounds in Cape Town last night.

Uncomplimentary language, allegations and counter allegations were the order of the day during the initial part of the parliamentary sessions yesterday when Deputy Minister Ranjan Ramanayake and joint opposition MP Indika Anuruddha were trading words

A Chinese company is to be awarded the contract to construct the Ruwanpura Expressway linking Colombo and Ratnapura, Highways and Higher Education Minister Lakshman Kiriella said in an interview that only China had the money to invest in mega road pr

Making false allegations, child abuse, offences under the Immigration, Emigration Act, and computer frauds will be among the new offences that require the suspects to be finger printed following the amendments to be introduced to the Prevention of Cr

The Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) yesterday said a national front would be launched with regard to the South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine (SAITM) in Malabe by making the political parties of the country aware of

The chairman of the South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine (SAITM), Dr. Neville Fernando said today that they had the backing of the government and would continue SAITM operations without fear.

The Power and Renewable Energy Ministry today said the Finnish Ambassador to Sri Lanka Rauli Suikkanen had agreed to provide the latest technology to generate electricity from sea waves to the country.

Former Central Bank Governor Arjuna Mahendran said a group of disgruntled Central Bank employees closely allied with a former Governor lobbied for his removal because he cancelled all the tamashas and excessive foreign travel enjoyed by a few of his

The Maximum Retail Prices (MRP) set by the Finance Ministry on Rice, Nadu and Samba, are illegal since the prices had not been gazetted, MP Bandula Gunawardane said today.

President Maithripala Sirisena today appointed a four-member committee chaired by retired Supreme Court judge Nimal Dissanayake to upgrade the operations of Lake House, President’s Media Division said.  

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday said that he was willing to work to consolidate political trust, expand mutually beneficial cooperation and deepen people-to-people friendship with Sri Lanka.

SAITM's Chief Executive Officer Dr. Sameera Senaratne whose car came under gunfire on Monday night said today he had received death threats on three consecutive days and that he had complained to the IGP, DIG and the Mulleriyawa Police about thes

Sri Lanka's vow not to allow Chinese military activity in the port of Hambantota is meant to pacify India, but is "unnecessary" since the port has always been meant for civilian use and India is too sensitive over China's presence i

Students belonging to eight medical faculties have decided to boycott studies from today as a protest against the Court ruling, which permits the Sri Lanka Medical Council (SLMC) to provisionally register SAITM’s MBBS graduates, the Medical Fac

National Freedom Front (NFF) Leader Wimal Weerawansa’s supporter who obstructed court proceedings when the MP was re-remanded on January 24, was imposed a one and half year imprisonment suspended for seven years by Colombo Fort Magistrate Lanka

Heavy traffic was reported in Town Hall and along the roads leading to the area from Thummulla Junction and Borella due to a protest march carried out by the Inter University Trade Union Joint Committee (IUTUJC).  

A new citizens’ participatory audit system to assess the services provided by local government bodies to their constituents would be implemented before long, the Auditor General’s Department said yesterday.

Donald Trump is set to be banned from giving a historic address in the British Parliament's grandest and most prestigious hall.