Despite the current practice to call for tenders and additional funds for new projects, the Road Development Authority (RDA) said yesterday that additional funds would not be allocated to paint the zebra crossings white.

The government is to initiate a dialogue among various ethnic and religious groups in the country to ease the tension between such groups.

The United Nations (UN) Human Rights Committee had officially informed the Sri Lankan Government yesterday of its decision to order the government to pay compensations to a Canadian man who was allegedly tortured in Sri Lanka.

The feasibility study on bringing electric trains to Sri Lanka has been completed and the groundwork for the project would begin soon, Deputy Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation Ashoka Abeysinghe told Parliament today.

National Co-existence, Dialogue and Official Languages Minister Mano Ganesan said today that people in the North could celebrate Maaveerar Naal (Heroes Day) without mentioning the name of the LTTE, as it was a proscribed organisation.

Northern Province Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswaran said today the gangsters who call themselves the ‘Aava’ group operating in the North is ‘politically-motivated and army-assisted’.

A Sri Lankan national had posed as a Briton and produced a forged India passport to enter the departure gate-hold room for a departing flight to New Zealand, a Singaporean court heard.

The car belonging to the Director of the National Museum is reported to have plunged into the pond in front of Parliament this evening, Police said.

The engineer, who reportedly sat on the Speaker's chair, is alleged to have threatened two lobby reporters after the media reported the incident.

Sri Lanka has not changed or reversed its stand on Palestine and will uphold the policies maintained by former governments, Foreign Affairs Minister Mangala Samaraweera told Parliament today.

A Sri Lankan-born doctor who bludgeoned her husband to death with a mallet after years of abuse is appealing to the Immigration Minister to allow her to stay in Australia after serving her sentence.  

The ministerial committee appointed by President Maihripala Sirisena to inquire into the Central Bank bond scam will hand over its report, which includes six recommendations to the President tomorrow, State Minister of Finance, Lakshman Yapa Abeyward

A young man died and seven others were seriously injured in a collision of a van, a double cab and a motorcycle near Kegalle Ballika Maha Vidyalaya on the Kegalle – Kandy road last evening.

The law suit filed by the Sri Lanka Transport Board (SLTB) against former President Mahinda Rajapaksa for the recovery of Rs. 143 million for using SLTB buses in election campaigns of last Presidential Election is to be taken up again on January 26.

Sri Lanka’s Suranga Lakmal has been fined 50 per cent of his match fee for breaching Level 1 of the ICC Code of Conduct during his side’s match against Zimbabwe in Bulawayo on Monday, the ICC announced today.

Western, Eastern and Northern coastal areas are duly protected from the possible effects of any nuclear accidents that may occur in the atomic power plant in India, Deputy Minister of Power and Renewable Energy Ajith P Perera informed Parliament toda

A Sri Lanka-born New York university staffer has filed a complaint against his varsity for paying him nearly USD 100,000 a year for “zero work” after he felt sick of spending most of his time at work feeding birds and squirrels and watchi

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.3 struck central New Zealand today, little more than a week after a powerful tremor centered in the upper South Island rocked the country and killed two people.

Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa with a few other members of the joint opposition will undertake a week's official tour of China tomorrow.

Residents of coastal areas in northeastern Japan are evacuating to higher ground following a powerful earthquake that hit Fukushima Prefecture on Tuesday morning.

Four unidentified men had thrown red chilli powder in the eyes of the policemen and fled when they tried to check them near a checkpoint at Kate junction in Point Pedro yesterday, police said.

The cabinet subcommittee appointed to advise the FCID will be disbanded as it has not met for a year, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said in Parliament yesterday.

Government Spokesman and Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe yesterday debunked the claims made by MP Dinesh Gunawardana that there was a possibility of the military launching a coup.

The Joint Opposition yesterday said the government had concealed the actual amount of budget allocation for the education sector in the Budget 2017 and that they had misled the whole nation by doing so.

About 1050 national and company Identity cards were recovered from Beminiyanwala in Ambalantota this evening while digging the ground in an irrigation reserve with a backhoe, police said.

While decrying the claims made by MP Dinesh Gunewardane of an Army Coup in Sri Lanka, Deputy Minister Ajith P. Perera yesterday claimed the whole nation would take to the streets if despotism would be prevailing in the country without considering pol

The Transport and Civil Aviation Ministry has decided to increase the fines to Rs.25,000 for seven traffic offences such as drunk driving and driving without a valid license, Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva said today.