Foreign Affairs Minister Mangala Samaraweera will leave for the United Kingdom tomorrow on a five-day official visit (9-14), the Foreign Ministry said.

President Maithripala Sirisena is to submit a proposal to the International Buddhist Seminar-a segment at the 2017 UN Vesak Day celebrations to be held in Sri Lanka- to declare Vesak Day as a fully-fledged UN holiday, Parliamentary reforms and Media

The strategic location as well as the economic health of the country was indicative of Sri Lanka’s potential of becoming a hub of global maritime trade, the Acting High Commissioner of Pakistan in Sri Lanka Dr. Sarfraz Ahmed Khan Sipra said yes

A total of 285 prisoners, including six women, had been released from prisons across the country today in view of the 2nd anniversary of President’s Maithripala Sirisena’s swearing in as President, Prisons Department said today.

Negotiations between India and Sri Lanka on an Economic and Technical Cooperation Agreement (ETCA) hit the hard road at an official’s-level meeting held in Colombo on January 4 and 5, Indian Express reported.

At least 23 people, who were arrested on charges of violating court orders and damaging public property, during a protest in Hambantota, were remanded after they were produced in the Hambantota Magistrate Court yesterday.

Ten Indian fishermen were apprehended along with two fishing trawlers by the Navy, for poaching in Sri Lankan waters, in two separate incidents inTaleimannar and Karainagar last night.

Traffic on Galle road from NSA roundabout to the Galle Face Roundabout has been restricted from 8.00 to 10.00am today in view of the Late Prime Minister S.W.R.D Bandaranaike’s 118th birth anniversary commemoration in front of the Bandaranaike s

The industrial zone in Hambantota was originally planned by the previous regime led by former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said on Saturday.

Local Government and Provincial Councils Minister Faizer Mustapha had received legal advice asking him to accept the final delimitation committee report after all five committee members signed it, Ministry sources said.

More than ten people including several police personnel were Hospitalised following the tense situation prevailed during the opening ceremony of the Southern Industrial Zone today, Hospital sources said.

China would invest US$ 5 billion in Sri Lanka within the next two to three years, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinge said today.

Two women were killed and another one injured when the three-wheeler they were traveling in veered off the road and crashed onto a tamarind tree at Padawgama on the Mattala airport road last evening, Police said.

R.A. Nisal Punsara of Rahula College, Matara has topped the Island rankings in Biology stream while K.D.M. Amaya Darmasiri from Maliyadeva Girls’ College, Kurunegala has topped the island rankings in Physical Science stream at the 2016 Advanced

Police fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse a group of people including Joint Opposition MPs, who are staging a protest in Hambantota where the foundation stone for the Hambantota Industrial Zone was laid.

In the wake of the Consultative Task Force calling for foreign judges to hear war crime charges, a government minister said yesterday that President Maithripala Sirisena categorically ruled out the participation of foreign judges to hear or inquire i

The results of the GCE Advance Level Examination 2016 were released, the Examinations Department announced. Results could be obtained through www.doenets.lk/exam or www. results.exams.gov.lk

The government decided to reduce the tariffs on imported rice with effect from midnight today (6) in a bid to ease difficulties faced by the people due to the severe drought condition prevailing in many parts of the country, .

Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe said today said he had no confidence in the Consultation Task Force on Reconciliation Mechanisms (CTF) appointed by the Prime Minister.

The Hambantota Magistrate has issued a court order banning all protests in the Hambantota area within the course of the day.

Drug kingpin Samantha Kumara alias Wele Suda’s mother (60) and her relative (28), who were taken into custody by the officers of the Excise Department last night for possessing 20g of heroin

A JVP-affiliated trade union attached to the Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) had demonstrated against the plan to hand over a 80 per cent stake of the Hambantota Port to a Chinese company to operate.