Six new weekend trains had been commissioned on the coastal line with effect from this Saturday (20), the Railway Department said yesterday.

One Google Loon balloon had entered into Sri Lankan airspace on Monday, but it is yet to be operational, ICTA Information Infrastructure Program Manager Gavaskar Subramaniam said.

Visiting President Maithripala Sirisena today invited German investors to take advantage of the increasing economic opportunities in Sri Lanka and interact with the business delegation accompanied with him for further investment.

Attorney-at-Law Amal Randeniya was elected Secretary of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) last night after a keen tussle for the post.

The Joint Opposition today slammed the Government for evicting residents of Henmulla Nawa Niwasa Watte and the Kajima Watte down Ferguson Road, Thotalanga without any prior notice to initiate the Megapolis Western Province Development Project.

Special Assignment Minister Dr. Sarath Amunugama today said Sri Lanka was maintaining close diplomatic ties with both India and China and that most of the Chinese funded projects were carried out by the government.

There was no difference between the political period of late Vijaya Kumaratunga and the present political conditions, former President and Parliamentarian Mahinda Rajapaksa said yesterday.

President Maithripala Sirisena who is on a state visit to Germany met the Federal Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel today.  

The Provincial Council (PC) elections were unlikely this year, because the delimitation of the Wards in all the Districts had not yet been completed, State Minister Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena said today.

The protest by the residents in Thotalanga, was completely unnecessary because they had already been given proper housing units at three housing projects completed in the close proximity, Megapolis and Western Development Minister Champika Ranawaka s

The term of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry to Investigate and Inquire into Serious Acts of Fraud, Corruption and Abuse of Power, State Resources and Privileges (PRECIFAC) has been extended by one year by President Maithripala Sirisena followi

Police Chief N.K. Illangakoon has instructed the CID to investigate the deaths of two university student activist in a road accident in Imbulgoda in 2012.

Heavy traffic was reported in Kollupitiya and along the Ananda Coomaraswamy Mawatha because of a protest carrying out by a group of Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) employees at Kollupitiya Junction.   Video by Indika Sri Aravinda

The Colombo Crimes Division today released sketches of two suspects connected to the murder of Sunday Leader Editor Lasantha Wickrematunge.

Former Embilipitiya ASP D.W.C. Dharmaratne, who was remanded in connection with the death of a young man at Embilipitiya, was today further remanded till March 2 by Additional Magistrate Prasanna Fernando.

The Colombo High Court today considering the bail revision applications filed on behalf of Yoshitha Rajapaksa and three others, noticed the respondents to submit objections on February 29.

The Sri Lanka-Japan Friendship Bridge in Thotalanga that was blocked due to a protest by the residents has been opened for traffic after clearing protesters off the road, police said.

Visiting President Maithripala Sirisena paid a visit yesterday to the ‘Foundation Monument for the Murdered Jews in Europe at Cora Berliner Strasse 1 and viewed photographs and paintings that vividly depicted the horrors of WW2.

The Colombo-Negombo road is currently blocked at Thotalanga as the protest demonstration by area people continued for the second day.

The Northern Provincial Council was to prepare a document containing its plans to develop the province which in turn will be presented at the doner summit to be organised by the Japanese government in Tokyo soon.

Ex-president Mahinda Rajapaksa's son Yoshitha, a Lieutenant in the Navy, and currently in remand custody on charges of financial irregularities at the Carlton Sports Network (CSN) would be sacked if found guilty of the charges, the Navy said toda

Traffic congestion was reported at Grandpass in Colombo because of a protest carried out by a group of people on the Victoria Bridge against the removal of unauthorized structures, police said.  

The former economic development minister Basil Rajapaksa today filed a fundamental rights petition stating that the Financial Crimes Investigation Division (FCID) is planning to arrest him and have him remanded without bail alleging that he had amass

Ravana Balaya convener, the Ven. Iththekande Saddhatissa Thera, five other monks and five lay persons (including a woman) were produced before Homagama Magistrate Ranga Dissanayaka yesterday and re-remanded on charges of disruption of court proceedin

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said today those who are paid to shout against the agreement with India will learn a lesson when the people get to the streets soon.

Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) General Secretary Ven. Galagodaaththe Gnanasara Thera was further remanded by Homagama Magistrate Ranga Dassanayake till February 23 for allegedly threatening Pradeep Eknaligoda’s wife Sandhaya Eknaligoda.