Arch rivals India and Pakistan will play alongside Sri Lanka and South Africa in a four-nation Independence Cup in Sri Lanka in 2018, Sri Lanka Cricket President Thilanga Sumathipala confirmed.

A rugby coach and four students from a school in Dematagoda were arrested for beating a 14-year-old student of the same school when he refused to play the game.  

The Court of Appeal bench, which dismissed the appeal against the judgment of TNA Parliamentarian Nadarajah Raviraj’s murder trial, reinstated the appeal today after considering the submissions made by the late MP’s counsel M.A. Sumanthir

State Minister Priyankara Jayaratne who resigned from his post recently sat in the Opposition in Parliament today.

The Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) that hovered in the skies and spotted in several areas of the country on Saturday night could be a drone activity, Professor, Department of Physics, University of Colombo, Dr. Chandana Jayaratne said.

Former Minister Wimal Weerawansa and an ex- DGM who were arrested by the FCID on charges of misusing 40 state vehicles belonging to the National Engineering Corporation(NEC) and causing Rs. 90 million financial loss to the state during 2011-2014, wer

In 2014, a few months after he guided Sri Lanka to their maiden Test win against England, Angelo Mathews was named captain of the ICC Test Team of the Year. He seemed well set to rise to the upper echelons of the sport’s hierarchy.

Lanka Private Bus Owners' Association (LPBOA) President Gemunu Wijeratne yesterday said he had requested the Finance Minister to include a clause to ban begging and selling goods inside buses and to add Rs.5,000 as fines when the Motor Traffic Ac

Speaker Karu Jayasuriya said the COPE report on the CB bond scam would be taken up for debate today as scheduled and there was no reason for the House to act otherwise despite a petition filed against the COPE report in the Supreme Court.

For the first time in the history of the Dimbulagala Forest Monastery, a seven-year-old Muslim boy has been ordained, said Chief Incumbent Millane Siriyalankara Thera.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe had a meeting with President Maithripala Sirisena on Sunday, informed sources said yesterday.

The Dasa Sil Matha who began a hunger strike on Sunday (22) was admitted to the Kandy General Hospital this evening due to being in a critical condition.

President Maithripala Sirisena is attempting to enact a ‘Sampanthan Constitution’ by cancelling the first three clauses in the First Chapter of the current Constitution, joint opposition MP Keheliya Rambukwella claimed today.   &nb

Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) Leaders grow closer to its patron and former president Mahinda Rajapaksa when an election is approaching, the Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU) said today.  

The Anti-Corruption Front (ACF) led by Ven. Ulapone Sumangala Thera wrote to President Maithripala Sirisena today demanding him to prevent former Central Bank governor Arjuna Mahendran from attending meetings at the Finance Ministry.

The Government has sought the advice of the Attorney General on the action it should take on the delay by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) approving the Google Loon Project, Telecommunication Infrastructure Development Minister Harin F

The European Investment Bank (EIB) today said it will provide EUR 50 million to support improvement and expansion of sewage networks across the Sri Lankan capital Colombo.

Three youths drowned while bathing in the sea off Muttur in Trincomalee this afternoon, Police said.

Heavy traffic was reported around Ceramic Junction in Colombo Fort because of a protest carried out by the Inter Medical Faculty Students' Action Committee demanding the abolition of the SAITM.

Dinesh Chandimal will captain the Sri Lankan team for the third T-20 match against South Africa on Wednesday (25) as Angelo Mathews will be absent due to personal reasons, Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) announced today.

President Maithripala Sirisena's decision to appoint a Special Presidential Commission (SPC) of Inquiry to probe the Central Bank bond scam is only similar to closing the stable doors after the horse has bolted, JVP Leader Anura Kumara Dissanayak

Injured captain Angelo Mathews is expected to return to Sri Lanka from South Africa this week. Issuing a statement, the SLC said Mathews is expected to return to Sri Lanka to join his family.

Asoka Peiris, the former chairman of the Delimitation Review Committee said some ministers believed that government officials should act according to their dictates like schoolchildren -- sitting down and standing up when ordered to by their teachers

Two passengers were killed and another thirty-three were injured when a container and a bus collided head-on at Bataliya in Nittambuwa on the Colombo-Kandy Main Road this morning.

President Maithripala Sirisena has decided to appoint a Special Presidential Commission of Inquiry, this week, to investigate into the controversial Central Bank bond issue.

Measures had been taken to purchase 160 new railway compartments and 20 locomotive engines for the Sri Lanka Railways (SLR), Transport and Civil Aviation Minister Nimal Siripala De Silva said.

A Dasa Sil Matha is seen sitting in front of the historic Dalada Maligawa in Kandy where she has embarked on a non-stop hunger strike saying that the present government is trying to divide the country by amending the Constitution.