Water level in the Kalu, Nilwala rivers and Attanagalu Oya was increasing due to the heavy rains experienced in Colombo and several other areas in the country, Disaster Management Centre said (DMC).

Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa will undertake a tour of Japan on June 9 along with a few other members of the Joint Opposition, it is learnt.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe left for South Korea early this morning to participate at the 2016 Rotary International Convention to be held in Capital Seoul.

The no-confidence motion against Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake is expected to be taken up for debate in Parliament on June 8.

Navy Commanding Officer of the Eastern province, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Navy Rear Admiral Neil Rosayro has been transferred to Colombo.

Education Minister Akila Viraj Kariyawasam today rejected reports of an alleged incident that had taken place during a parent-teacher meeting at the Madina Central College in Madawala, a national school in Kandy as being racially motivated.

The Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) yesterday said that they have not taken any decision as yet to take action against Eastern Province Chief Minister Nazeer Ahamed for reprimanding a naval officer during an event held at the Sampur Maha Vidyalaya l

Search operations, at the landslide site of Samasara Hill in Aranayake, will continue amidst hopes for survivors gradually fading, Major General Sudantha Ranasinghe said today.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe today met the military hierarchies and discussed the about recent incident where the Eastern Chief Minister Nazer Ahamed rebuked a Navy officer at an event in Sampur, Trincomalee.

A tense situation prevailed in the Northern Provincial Council (NPC) when the members protested against Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswaran submitting a resolution on Jayalalithaa Jayaram becoming the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister again while nothing was don

A Sri Lankan asylum seeker who has lived in Australia since arriving illegally by boat in 2012 has been ordered to return to Sri Lanka, despite telling authorities he feared he would be persecuted for his religion.   

Lieut.Colonel Praboda Siriwardana, the second suspect in the Eknaligoda case, was today released on a cash bail of Rs.2 million with two sureties of Rs.6 million each by Homagama Magistrate Ranga Dissanyake.  

Prices of motor vehicles with cylinder capacity exceeding 1,500 cc will be increased as Unit Rate Tax was increased from today, Vehicle Importers’ Association chairman Mahinda Sarathchandra said.

Well-known dancer Channa Wijewardane arrived at the PRECIFAC a short while ago to give a statement on the monies paid to him for his performances at the opening ceremony of the Hambantota Harbour.

The Sri Lankan government ratified the Convention against Enforced Disappearance but in the same week created an Office of Missing Persons without promised consultations with families of the disappeared, the Human Rights Watch said today.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has requested both Eastern Province Chief Minister Nazeer Ahamed and the Navy to submit reports on the incident that took place in a school in the East where the Chief Minister had verbally abused a senior naval of

The Government Medical Officers Association (GMOA) said today they had given a few more days to the government to find a solution to the issue which had arisen due to the undue intervention of the Medical Services Director in the post-Internships app

The people and Buddhist monks in the Batticaloa area held a protest today against the rebuking of a navy officer by Eastern Province Chief Minister Nazeer Ahamed during an event held at the Sampur Maha Vidyalaya on Friday.

The Colombo High Court today set aside an order given by Colombo Chief Magistrate Gihan Pilapitiya to entrust the custody of 15 elephants that were kept in Udawalawe Elephant Transit Home and Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage to their owners on a Rs. 30 m

The teacher of Anuladevi Girls’ School, Galle who had allegedly told three students of grade four to punish another student, was released on a surety bail of Rs. 100,000 by the Galle Additional Magistrate Kesara Samaradivakara today.

Responding to the behaviour of Eastern Province Chief Minister Nazeer Ahamed who slandered a Navy officer at an event, former President Mahinda Rajapaksa urged a full investigation into the matter, and said insults directed at the security forces by

Former president Mahinda Rajapaksa’s coordinating secretary Champika Karunaratne was yesterday arrested by the Financial Crime Investigation Division (FCID) on charges of being in possession of 1.1 kilograms of gold.

Former Western Province Senior DIG Anura Senanayake and Former Narahenpita Crimes OIC Sumith Perera were ordered to be further remanded till June 09 over the Magisterial Inquiry relating to the murder of ruggerite Wasim Thajudeen by the Colombo Addit

Eastern Province Chief Minister Nazeer Ahamed would not be allowed to enter military camps and the three forces would not participate in functions attended by the Chief Minister, the Ministry of Defence (MOD) said.