The joint opposition today requested Police Chief N.K. Illangakoon to ensure an impartial and proper investigation into the Rajagiriya accident involving a motorcycle and a vehicle belonging to Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka.

A three-member committee is inquiring into the incident where the doctor is alleged to have operated the left knee of a 14-year-old girl instead of operating on her problamatic right knee, officials said today.

Against the backdrop of a prisoner being shot while being transported in a Black Maria to Court, Prisons Commissioner General H.M.N.C. Dhanasinghe said today his office was considering measures such as tinted glasses on the vehicles to ensure safety

Six students were injured when a jeep carrying about 13 students had toppled near the Public Library in Colombo 7, Police said.  

Two unidentified men have robbed Rs.1.5 million from a Finance Company at Ja-Ela this morning, Police said.

The National Police Commission has approved the promotion of fifteen Chief Inspectors to the rank of Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP).

Six Indian nationals staying at a lodging house in Wellawatte were arrested last night by the Colombo Crime Division (CCD) for overstaying their visa and violating immigration laws, Police said.

A Defender belonging to the Presidential Secretariat was taken into custody by the Kotadeniyawa Police last night in connection with a hit and run accident in Kithulwala on February 25.  

Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Thursday said that she held consultations with the top Sri Lankan leadership to resolve the issue of fishermen from Tamil Nadu, DNA reported.  

A 41-year-old motorcyclist was shot dead at Kochchikade in Katana  by unidentified gunmen who arrived on a motorbike a short while ago, police said.  

Students of a reputed boys’ college in Colombo, who attempted to scale the walls of the Bishop's college in Colombo during the big match season, were taken in for questioning by the police.  

The Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) yesterday said the proposed India-aided ambulance service should be operated under a domestic mechanism in order to preserve our rights.

A mother, resident of Kuliyapitiya filed a fundamental rights violation petition complaining that her child’s school admission to grade one had callously been denied to all the schools in Kuliyapitiya zone due to falsely circulated rumour that

The CID today filing a report in the Chief Magistrate’s Court sought to obtain the hard disk that was in use on May 15, 2012 in the CCTV Camera of Parliamentarian Douglas Devananda's Political Office at No.121 Park Road, Colombo 5.

In the wake of extremist attacks in the country, Bangladesh is considering to abandon Islam as its official religion, according to a report in the Daily Mail.  

Police today released video footage and sought public assistance to identify a car which had allegedly been used by the suspects who had opened fire on a prisons bus in Maligawatta on Wednesday.

The Foreign Affairs Minister in his address at the meeting of the Governing Council of Community of Democracies in Geneva said the government was in the process of repealing the Prevention of Terrorism Act and introducing a new counter-terrorism legi

Sri Lanka is among the countries which have the worst passports in the world with having visa-free accesses only to 39 countries, the Visa Restrictions Index-2016 compiled by London-based immigration and citizenship consulting firm, Henley and Partne

A piece of debris found off the southeast African coast that could be from a missing Malaysia Airlines flight is being sent to Australia for testing, officials said on Thursday, two years after the plane carrying 239 people disappeared.

Minister of Highways and Higher Education Lakshman Kiriella questioned what was wrong with issuing a letter seeking a favour for a supporter of the UNP that had been in the Opposition for more than 20 years.

Embilipitiya Additional Magistrate Prasanna Fernando today ordered the body of Sumith Prasanna, who was killed during a clash with the Police in Embilipitiya, be exhumed on March 10 for a second postmortem.  

Megapolis and Western Development Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka today said he would not influence police investigations into the incident in which a jeep along with a driver attached to his Ministry met with an accident on Sunday night.  

Kamburupitiye Harsha, the underworld gangster who was critically injured when shot at by two gunmen who arrived on a motorcycle, succumbed to his injuries at the National Hospital a short while ago, Hospital sources said.

Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Development Minister Mahinda Amaraweera today said he would be always standing to safeguard the Rajapaksa family just as he did in the past.

Kamburupitiye Harsha, a notorious underworld gangster and a member of the ‘Maduska’ gang, was critically injured when shot at by two gunmen who arrived on a motorcycle.  

Elections Commission Chairman Mahinda Deshapriya said today the Election Commission would not postpone elections on the need of any interested person and that no one had been vested with the power to declare elections.

The verdict on the court case in connection with the rape and killing of five-year-old Seya Sadewmi of Kotadeniyawawill be delivered on March 15, Negombo High Court Judge Champa Janaki Rajaratne said today.

Former New Zealand cricket captain Martin Crowe has died after a long battle with cancer. He was 53.