Queen Elizabeth II in a message on Sri Lanka’s Independence Day has extended her best wishes for the good fortune and happiness of the people of Sri Lanka in the coming year.

Heavy traffic was reported in Colombo Fort and around the Lake House Roundabout due to a protest staged by the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) employees demanding the authorities to solve their salary anomalies.

Foreign Affairs Minister Mangala Samaraweera, who was in Ethiopia on an official visit, said that Sri Lanka had the capacity to provide skilled and semi-skilled professionals to work in Ethiopian industries.

A Sri Lankan man accused of bringing hundreds of Tamil asylum seekers into Canada illegally has been granted bail after more than six years in jail, the Record said today.

The final details of the agreement to sell the Hambantota Port shares to Chinese State-owned enterprise China Merchant Port Holdings (CMPH) will be finalized this week and the details of the agreement would be announced soon, Finance Minister Ravi Ka

A trishaw driver who defended himself  in the Gampola Magistrate Court was acquitted of all charges levelled against him, by Magistrate Chandani Meegoda.   

A 48-year-old man was shot dead in a motorcar in Ilimba Junction in Horana this morning by two unidentified men who came in a motorcycle this morning, Police said.

Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa should either retire from politics or make up his mind to support the government’s efforts to develop the country and to bring in peace and reconciliation, State Minister of Defense Ruwan Wijewardene said yest

An unknown person assaulted a Sri Lankan housemaid in Jahra governorate while she was walking home from a cooperative society.

Former Central Bank Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal, who served in office during the previous rule, said yesterday, the economy had been managed ‘very badly’ during the last couple of years even according to statistics published after the n

the transfer of approximately up to 1,250 refugees from Australia’s offshore detention islands of Manus Island and Nauru, including many from Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Iran and Iraq for resettlement into the US.

Despite the late-night release of the 21 medical students taken into custody, the Government Medical Officers' Association (GMOA) said today that it would go ahead with its 4-hour token strike tomorrow.

The Colombo Fort Magistrate released the 21 medical students who were arrested on charges of violating a court order by taking part in today’s protest held in Colombo against the SAITM.

The Government Medical Officers Association (GMOA) today condemned the arrest of students who were protesting against the SAITM and said they would launch a 4-hour token strike starting from 8 a.m. tomorrow.

A number of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) including the British Tamil Forum have urged the European Parliament to request a briefing from the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on Sri Lanka before deciding on the GSP+ reinstatement.

The Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) today threatened to resort to major trade union action next week if its demands with regard to the South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine (SAITM) in Malabe were not addressed.  

India has allocated Indian Rupees (INR) 1.25 billion as aid to Sri Lanka in its Budget for the year 2017, the PTI said on Thursday.

Twenty one students who engaged in the today’s protest against the SAITM in Colombo were arrested by the Police.

Northern Province Chief Minister C. V. Wigneswaran had become nothing but a ghost, who instigated disharmony between the Tamil and Sinhala communities in the country, Minister Dayasiri Jayasekara said today.

Foreign Affairs Deputy Minister Dr. Harsha de Silva today posted a video on his facebook account showing an unpleasant experience he had to witness where some skulls and bones, unearthed during a road construction, were thrown by the roadside in Bore

A day after some international media reported that Sri Lankans were among stranded passengers at US airports because of President Trump’s ban on immigration, the US Embassy in Colombo said that “Sri Lanka is not among the seven countries

Police fired tear gas and used water cannons to disperse protesting medical students against the SAITM at the Ceramic Junction in Colombo a short while ago, Police said.  

Heavy traffic has been reported in Colombo Fort because of two separate protests staged by port employees and disabled soldiers, Police said.

Sri Lankan Missions in the US have informed the Foreign Affairs Ministry that there were no confirmed cases of Sri Lankans being stranded at US airports because of President Trump’s ban on immigration.

The Frontline Socialist Party (FSP) politburo member Kumar Gunaratnam has been granted Sri Lankan citizenship effective from yesterday, officials said a short while ago.

Colombo Additional Magistrate Ranga Dissanayake made an order to the organizers of the protest, which to be held in Colombo against the SAITM today, to refrain from blocking roads of 12 congested places in Colombo and causing unnecessary public nuisa