The Sri Lankan security forces which are expected to increase its role in the UN Peace-keeping Mission is to be deployed in the Mali Islands shortly, State Minister for Defense, Ruwan Wijewardene said on Sunday.

Indian Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will arrive in Sri Lanka soon to participate in talks on the proposed Economic and Technology Cooperation Agreement (ETCA) to be signed between the two countries, Acting Foreign Affairs Minister Harsha de S

An event organized on Sunday by the Bambalapitiya flats’ Welfare Association to collect signatures from residents for a memorandum to be sent to the President against the Re-development of Bambalapitiya Flats ended inconclusively.

A stock of cocaine worth over Rs.40 million which a Bolivian woman tried to smuggle into the country through the Bandaranaike International Airport was seized by Customs officials last evening.

The Foreign Affairs Ministry is remaining silent in the wake of the Danish Immigration Department recognizing Tamil Eelam as one of the countries from which foreigners could apply for a visa to enter Denmark, the Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU) said tod

A 21-year-old youth was killed today when he fell from a three-storey building and landed on the iron rods projecting out of the parapet wall in Kirulapone, police said.

A photo of the late Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra, which shows a gunshot wound in the head, was posted on Facebook by his daughter UNP MP Hirunika Premachandra yesterday.

President Maithripala Sirisena today lamented the fact that an increasing number of Sri Lankan women were taking to drinking beer even though it was heartening to see a decline in the smoking habit.

A staff nurse had been injured at the lab of the Badulla General Hospital following a spirit burner explosion, hospital sources said.

President Maithripala Sirisena today appointed Air Vice Marshal Kapila Jayampathy as Commander of the Sri Lanka Air Force.

An appalling lack of security at the Kuala Lumpur Airport (KLIA) and a corrupt Malaysian administration are blamed for the brutal assault on the Sri Lankan High Commissioner in Malaysia, Ibrahim Sahib Ansar, by a group of local Indian Tamil radicals

Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) General Secretary Minister Duminda Dissanayake said the SLFP, expects former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, will cooperate with the party rather than seeking office at future elections.

Parliament will be closed for sessions in the third week of October due to refurbishment of the buildings, informed sources said yesterday.  

The Maxwell Paranagama Presidential Commission on Missing Persons has strongly recommended in its final report that in the event of Sri Lanka were to set up a purely domestic tribunal without the participation of any foreign judges, there must be an

The government will introduce legislation to deal with the process of converting loss making state ventures into viable entities under a new formula, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said in Parliament last week.  

President Maithripala Sirisena is scheduled to visit New York, US to attend the 71st General Assembly of the United Nations (UN). He will address the UN General Assembly on September 21.

Four police officers including the OIC of Hambantota police had been transferred pending an inquiry into the disappearance of a youth who was in police custody over a theft he allegedly involved in.

The police have launched an investigation into the murder of a 55-year -old woman and her 32-year-old daughter in Eravur, Batticaloa last evening, Police said.

The body of a 27-year-old medical student of Colombo University 's Medical Faculty was found in a hostel at Norris Canal Road in Colombo-10, Police said today.

A sixteen-year-old boy had allegedly drowned in Kande Ela falls in Nuwara Eliya yesterday, while he was on a picnic with his friends, the Police said.

Former UPFA member of the Kolonna Pradeshiya Sabha and two others were arrested today on charges of allegedly assaulting to a youth.

More than 15,790 individuals (4781 families) are facing a severe shortage of drinking water due to drought conditions in Polonnaruwa district.

Around 300 acres in the Knuckles mountain range was destroyed by a fire which broke out on Friday.

At least 23 people have been killed in a huge fire that broke out at a packaging factory in Bangladesh.

A total of 334 killings were carried out in Sri Lanka from January to August this year, Parliament was informed yesterday. This was compared to 443 killings in 2015.