Lottery ticket sales agents in many parts of the country boycotted sales yesterday protesting against the price increase of tickets to Rs. 30.

The government has found it impossible to acquire 15,000 acres of land at once in Hambantota or in the adjoining Districts for Chinese investments, it is learnt.

A total of 370 foreign nationals from more than 40 countries, who were living in Sri Lanka defying visa regulations had been deported by the Department of Immigration and Emigration during last year, Immigration officials said.

The Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC), backed by some other minority parties, is opposed to the proposed new electoral system, officials said yesterday.

There was no point in remaining as a State Minister if a situation was not created for such Ministers to play an active role in the New Year, one of the State Ministers Palitha Range Bandara said over the week end.

A 46-year-old Pakistani national was arrested for possessing Kg 2.136 of heroin at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) by the Airport Police Narcotics Bureau (PNB) this evening (1), police said.

A brother in-Law of a Police Constable (PC) had been arrested by the Kuliyapitiya Police for allegedly clubbing a PC to death who was boiling milk at the dawn of the New Year, the Police said.

The Northern Provincial Council has adopted a motion prohibiting bottled toddy produced in the south from being transported and sold within the Northern Province.

One person was arrested after the Chennai Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) seized 8.7 kg of gold worth Rs 2.44 crore smuggled from Sri Lanka at Mandapam near Rameswaram in India.

Welcoming the new Secretary-General of the United Nations António Guterres and committing to continue to work closely with the UN, Minister of Foreign Affairs Mangala Samaraweera emphasized the relevance of the Secretary-General’s messag

A building at New Chetty Street in Kotahena caught fire when a sky cracker fell last night, the Police said.

A total number of 479 incidents including 113 road accidents had been reported to the Colombo National Hospital (CNH) on the New Year’s Eve and the day before, hospital sources said today.

At least 35 people have lost their lives in an attack on a nightclub in Turkey, Istanbul's governor has said.

Tolls levied from vehicles on expressways from 9pm to 5am, have been reduced by Rs. 50 with effect from today, the Road Development Authority (RDA) said.

Strongly condemning the taking over of boats of Tamil Nadu fishermen by the Sri Lankan government, political leaders including DMK treasurer M.K. Stalin sought the intervention of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to take steps for releasing the boats and

Sri Lankan captain Angelo Mathews spoke about the need for his team to be mentally tough when they meet South Africa in the second Test starting at Newlands, South Africa on Monday -- but they may need also need some changes in personnel.

The third round of talks between India and Sri Lanka on an Economic and Technical Cooperation Agreement (ETCA) will be held on January 4 an 5, a Sri Lankan official told Indian Express yesterday.

Secretaries to the Ministries of Fisheries of Sri Lanka and India met in New Delhi today to discuss the fishing issue bedeviling relations between the two countries.

President Maithripala Sirisena has reportedly assured a group of UNP back bench MPs yesterday that he would see to it that the present government will continue to serve its full term despite differences between the two allies.

President Maithripala Sirisena said the decision taken to spend large sums to provide vehicles on rent basis to 58 Parliamentarians who were holding the Chairmanship posts of Regional Development Committees would not be implemented.

About 6,500 deserters of the tri-forces get themselves legally discharged from the service during the month-long amnesty from December 1, Army Spokesman Roshan Seneviratne said yesterday.

Four flights scheduled to arrive from Sharjah and Dubai have been delayed because of the dense fog in the Mediterranean zone, Airport sources said.

Two youth were killed when two motorcycles they were riding on crashed onto the back of a car at Nugaduwa traffic lights near the Galle-Pinnaduwa exit point earlier this morning, Police said.

Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa said yesterday that the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Sri Lanka and the fate of future generations would hang in the balance in 2017 under this increasingly dysfunctional government.

Justice and Buddha Sasana Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe hit out at Government MP Ashu Marasinghe describing him ‘as a NGO write-off’, who entered Parliament on the national list with no voter base. He said Mr. Marasinghe was attempting t

While claiming that during the last two years, many milestones have been achieved as a country, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe in his New Year message said … “yet undoubtedly, much needs to be done in our pursuit to be a fully-fledg

Another faculty of the Technology Stream will be opened at Ruhunu University on January 2, it's Vice Chancellor Prof. Gamini Senanayake said today.

A specialist doctor attached to a private hospital in Colombo is reported to have been stabbed  this evening and had undergone a surgery, Police said.