Sri Lanka’s internal war which ended in May 2009, had cost the country around US$ 200 billion according to India’s former National Security Adviser and Foreign Secretary, Shivshankar Menon.

Retired journalist Don Abey was devastated when three pads of notes and a USB were stolen from his car in Chisholm earlier this month.

A search is underway in Upper Ord River, Australia where a 28 year old Sri Lankan went missing after cliff jumping, Australian media reported.

Five pilgrims including two women who entered the Sri Pada forest reserve through the upper division of the Laxapana estate in Nallathanniya have gone missing this morning, the police said.

The Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) announced the takeoff its  first flight to Chennai a short while ago after some of the flights were suspended because of the Cyclone ‘Vardah’.

A delegation of defence experts left Sri Lanka following a week long discussion from the Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport in Hambantota on Sunday, the US Embassy announced today in a statement.

Two flights to Chennai had been delayed at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) this morning due to the Vardah Cyclone, the Duty Manager at the BIA said.

The Government will introduce new legislation, by end January next year, relaxing the  strictures placed on exchange control, Finance Minister Ravi  Karunanayake said yesterday.

A prominent politician’s 20 year-old daughter, who drove her defender jeep violating traffic laws, was caught by two policemen attached to the Nittambuwa Police station, after giving chase for three kilometers at the Pasyala area on the Colombo

Some 90% of the port employees who were protesting at the Hambantota Port had been appointed by the ‘Nil Balakaya’ youth organisation headed by MP Namal Rajapaksa during the previous regime, Ports and Shipping Minister Arjuna Ranatunga sa

Leaders of Tamil Nadu, across the political divide, privately but effectively supported the Indian government’s policy of opposing efforts by the US and Norway to rescue Velupillai Prabhakaran so that his Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)

The ‘MV Hoyanger’, which was the other vessel to be taken control of by the Navy after the Hambantota Port employees seized it last week, is still berthed at the pier under naval security, Navy spokesman Akram Alavi said today.

Death toll in the church collapse in Nigeria's Uyo has risen to 160 and the number is likely to rise. While cranes are still at work trying to lift the collapsed metal girders and corrugated iron sheets under which hundreds of people were trapped

Tajikistan President Emomali Rahmon arrived in Sri Lanka this evening with a delegation of 12 officials including Tajikistani Foreign Minister for a three-day official visit. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe arrived at the Bandaranaike Internation

A total of 1,725 tri-forces personnel including four officers, who are considered as Absent Without Official Leave (AWOL) have reported to their respective service centres seeking legal discharge as of December 10, the Defence Ministry said.

MP Namal Rajapaksa yesterday claimed that selling public assets regardless of its consequence was a cornerstone of UNP’s policy and added that they had never built the Hambantota harbour and the Mattala airport to be privatized.

The construction of the world’s tallest Christmas tree at the Galle Face Green has been resumed today after it was put on hold two weeks ago, the Ports and Shipping Ministry said.

All SriLankan flights leaving for Chennai from the Bandaranaike International Airport have been canceled until tomorrow morning due to the cyclone Vardah.

The Meteorology Department today warned the naval and fishing communities living by the Northern, North-eastern and Gulf of Mannar sea areas to refrain from engaging in naval and fishing activities today due to the severe cyclonic storm “Vardah

A 45-year-old fruit vendor was shot dead inside his fruit stall at Meetiyagoda in Ambalangoda by an unidentified gunman arrived on a motorbike this morning.  

Seven women and a male doctor were arrested by the Nugegoda Police last evening on charges of operating a brothel under the guise of a spa at a luxury house in Pelawatta.  

Two flights, one Emirates and one Srilankan, scheduled to land at Chennai Airport had been diverted to Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) this morning because of the impact of cyclone ‘Vardah’ in Chennai.

Harashana Tillekaratne of Maliyadeva College, Kurunegala won the silver medal in the Under 13 age group at the World Schools Chess Championship that is being held in Sochi, Russia.

Several political parties and Indian non-governmental organisations in Malaysia have threatened to hold demonstrations if the Government allowed Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena to make a visit to the country.

Higher Education and Highways Minister Lakshman Kiriella said a Court ruling was expected on January 30 when the petition filed by two students with regard to the registration of the Malabe private medical college SAITM by the Sri Lanka Medical Counc