The Frontline Socialist Party Leader Kumar Gunaratnam will be given Sri Lanka citizenship if he applied for it and give up Australian citizenship, Minister of Wayamba Development Cultural Affairs and Immigration and Emigration S. B. Navinna told Parl

President Maitripala Sirisena has instructed IGP to check VIP vehicles driven haphazardly with burning headlights and to report on the VIPs on board. He issued these instructions during a ceremony this morning in Colombo.

Angelo Mathews’ excellent performances with the bat and ball earned him three major Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) awards including that of the coveted Cricketer of the Year Award for the third year running yesterday.

Former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa rejected Foreign Affairs Minister Mangala Samaraweera’s allegation that a house in Los Angeles had been rented as the official residence of the Sri Lankan Consul General in 2013 and it has used by the

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe left for Hong Kong this morning to participate in the World in 2017 summit which was organized by the Economist magazine, the Prime Minister’s media office said.

Former President and Kurunegala District MP Mahinda Rajapaksa returned to the country after a seven day visit to China, Airport sources said.

An event to honour and felicitate the Police Officers who had excelled in their assigned duties was held at the Jaffna Police Station yesterday.

The Supreme Court ordered former Deputy Minister of Highways and Road Development Mervyn Silva to pay Rs.400,000 personally as compensation to the Petitioner for the demolition and destruction of a parapet wall, two toilets and a wash room in Kiribat

The Inter-Provincial Private Bus Association (IPPBA) and the Railway Employees’ Trade Union Federation (RETUF) are to begin countrywide bus and train strikes from midnight today.

The Government should not think it has fooled the Tamil National Alliance (TNA), MP M A Sumanthiran told Parliament yesterday.

A series of improvements to the road system had been approved by Cabinet recently to be implemented in line with the Western Province Megapolis Project.

The Joint Opposition today brought the attention of the government on the impounding of passport of six members of Parliament.

The government has decided to ban touting for transport, currency exchange and loading services at the arrival lobby and in the porch area of the Bandaranaike International Airport due to many difficulties being caused to passengers as well as Airpor

Cabinet Spokesman and Health Minister Rajitha Senaratne said today that the Cardiologists had suspected the cause of death of four patients could be an allergic reaction to a dye given to patients during the surgery and stopped the usage of the dye.

Colombo Additional Magistrate Nishantha Peiris today advised the CID that there was no obstacle to deploy usual investigation into the phone calls received from the Presidential Secretariat (PS) and Temple Trees (TT) to the Narahenpita OIC on the day

The Joint Opposition today questioned the non-emphasis on Palestine and Cuban issues in the recent address of President Maithripala Sirisena at the UN General Assembly in New York.

Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera today charged that a house had been rented as the official residence of the Sri Lankan Consul General in Los Angeles in 2013 and a sum of Rs. 27.6 million has been spent for it while it was occupied by former Defe

The Disaster Management Centre (DMC) today warned people living in coastal areas of Mullaitivu and Jaffna to be vigilant due to the cyclonic storm  NADA which is located around 400km to the east of Mullaitivu coast.

The Joint Opposition (JO) today requested the government to probe into the President’s statement made in Galle that a whopping Rs. 3,012 million allocated for the Nilwala River Development Project going missing just a day before the last Presid

An inquiry tribunal of Lahore High Court has asked the Foreign Affairs Ministry of Pakistan to manage within one week to produce the statements of Sri Lankan cricket team members who were attacked at Liberty Chowk on March 3, 2009.  

A minor fire broke out in a room on the ninth floor of an apartment building at Kollupitiya a short while ago, the Fire Brigade said.

Colombo Additional Magistrate Nishantha Peiris today allowed the CID to record a statement from former senior DIG Anura Senanayake over the magisterial inquiry into Rathupaswala shooting.

Leave,of all Sri Lanka Transport Board (SLTB) workers including bus drivers, conductors and technical staff, have been cancelled for a week starting from December 1, the Transport and Civil Aviation Ministry said.

Heavy traffic was reported near the parliament roundabout because of a protest by labour officers. Police said this had resulted in the road from Parliament to the parliament roundabout being temporally closed.

Medical services in more than 900 hospitals island-wide, except children’s and maternity hospitals have ground to a halt today due to the token strike launched by doctors against certain budgetary decisions.

Health Ministry today appointed a committee to look into deaths of four heart patients who died during surgery at Colombo National Hospital within Monday.