Police in Washington State were searching for at least one gunman Friday evening after at least four people were shot and killed at a mall north of Seattle.

Kumar Sangakkara will return for Surrey next season after agreeing a new one-year contract, Mail Online reported.

President Maithripala Sirisena said yesterday the world leaders whom he met on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly sessions in New York had a good impression about Sri Lanka and expressed goodwill towards the positive changes introduced by his G

Deputy Minister Ranjan Ramanayake on Wednesday (21) said he had given a list that contains the names of several ministers and opposition MPs who were engaged in corrupt activities to the Bribery Commission.

Education Minister Akila Viraj Kariyawasam said today said that as long as the mother’s attire is appropriate, she can enter into the school when dropping off or picking up her children.

Prices of 47 essential drugs, including those prescribed for diabetes and heart ailments were reduced with the immediate effect under the first phase of the National Medicinal Drugs Policy, Health, Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine Minister Rajitha S

A video showing a 38-year-old mother severely beating her 6-year-old daughter at Kopai in Jaffna had been uploaded to a social media website by one of their neighbors.

The Indian Government has appointed Taranjit Singh Sandhu as the next High Commissioner of India to Sri Lanka, Financial Express reported on Thursday.  

Former Economic Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa arrived at the Presidential Commission of Inquiry to Investigate and Inquire into Serious Acts of Fraud, Corruption and Abuse of Power, State Resources and Privileges (PRECIFAC) to make a statement

The trade union action launched by unions at the Sri Lanka Customs Department against the proposed Custom Ordinance was called off a short while ago.

Eighteen Sri Lankans, arrested in June in Kanyakumari District on the charge of embarking on an "illegal" voyage to Australia, were granted interim bail by the Madras High Court bench in Madurai on Thursday.

A Sri Lankan expatriate in Kuwait was arrested for touching a Kuwaiti woman inappropriately even though he claimed that he was just giving her a handshake as a way of greeting her, Arab Times reported on Thursday.

The Presidential Commission of Inquiry to Investigate and Inquire into Serious Acts of Fraud, Corruption and Abuse of Power, State Resources and Privileges (PRECIFAC) today concluded its inquiry into the misappropriation of government funds at the op

Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) on Wednesday decided to reverse a controversial clause in the Articles of Association of Cricket Aid (Guarantee) Ltd giving its signatories life-membership of this newly-formed charity arm of SLC.

Innovative technology was the only way to increase GDP, and the Techno City, which was to be built soon at a cost of nearly Rs. 20 billion, would play a major role in achieving this goal, Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka emphasized.

A number of Sri Lankan experts, including academics and professionals, who left the country had returned recently and more experts would hopefully follow them in the near future, said Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday.

The Ministry of Defense did not decide to write off Rs 200 million out of the total of Rs. 853 million which the Avant Garde Company owed Rakna Lanka (which is owned by the ministry), State Minister of Defence Ruwan Wijewardene told Parliament yester

The Government's high-handed attitude had triggered trade union action crippling the activities of three main revenue-collection institutions causing a loss of one billion rupees a day, the joint opposition said today.

US Secretary of State John Kerry, who met with President Maithripala Sirisena in New York, US, had expressed confidence that the Sri Lankan Government will fulfill its international commitments.  

SAITM Chairman Dr. Neville Fernando said today that their records do not reveal that any specimen of the late Wasim Thajudeen had been sent to the institution.

Survivors from a boat which capsized off the Egyptian coast on Wednesday have told the BBC that hundreds of people may have drowned.

Department for Registrations of Persons would be shifted to Suhurupuraya, Battaramulla on September 27, sources said. They said the department would be closed until September 27.

An adviser to the European Union’s top court said Thursday Hamas and the Tamil Tigers should be taken off the EU’s terror list, because the bloc’s governments failed to present sufficient evidence that the groups participated in ter