The newly elected Sri Lanka Cricket President Thilanga Sumathipala said today he would take legal action against former SLC President Arjuna Ranatunga over certain statements Ranatunga had allegedly made.

Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU) General Secretary Udaya Gammanpila, who earlier requested the people to display black flags to oppose the actions of the government, today organised a ‘black’ news conference and said Sri Lanka was experiencin

The Government is protecting a particular female parliamentarian who was charged with the abduction and assault of a man recently in Dematagoda, the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) claimed today.

Court adjourned for ten minutes amid heated arguments between the Police and the lawyers for the aggrieved party when the case, on the attack on those protesting against the dumping of garbage at Meetotamulla, was taken up for inquiry today.

My wife threatened to divorce me if I gave my Peacock Mansion to former president Mahinda Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka Labour Party Leader and Entrepreneur A.S.P. Liyanage said today.

The Human Rights Commission today said that it had recommend President Maithripala Sirisena to abolish the death penalty in Sri Lanka in keeping with the country’s commitment to a more humane society consonant with the human rights principle

Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif arrived in Colombo, a short while ago.This will be Sharif's first visit to Sri Lanka since President Maithripala Sirisena took office a year ago.

The government is endeavouring to obtain the support of its opponents to make its 2016 social and economic development programme a success, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said today.

At least 36 Sri Lankans are reported to have gone to Syria with some of them having joined the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group, Defence Secretary Karunasena Hettiarachchi said today.

The eight suspects who were in remand custody on charges of allegedly abducting a person of a Dematagoda drapery store on December 21, were further remanded till January 6 by Colombo Magistrate’s Court today.

Vehicle movement from Katunayake Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) to Colombo along the Colombo-Katunayake Expressway would be restricted between 4.00pm to 6.00pm today (04) due to the arrival of Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.

The chairman of the Avant Garde Company, Nissanka Senadipathi has arrived at the PRECIFAC this morning to give a statement in connection with the  alleged purchase of weapons from the Rakna Lanka Security Company.

The Maldivian Government denied Sunday reports that authorities of Sri Lanka had confiscated passports of two high ranking Maldivian officials after they were blacklisted "by mistake."

The  Sri Lankan government would not act “in haste” on the issue of setting up a special court on allegations of violations of human rights in the last stages of the civil war, President Maithripala Sirisena said yesterday.

A senior official of the Attorney General's Department said it was considering the action to be taken against MP Hirunika Premachandra over the recent kidnapping of a youth in the Dematagoda area.

A 6.7 magnitude earthquake hit India’s remote northeast region before dawn on Monday, killing at least four people, injuring 100 others and causing damage to several buildings.

Fisheries Minister Mahinda Amaraweera said today that all the new harbours in the country will be built on the concept of ‘Green Habour.”

Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair had arrived in Sri Lanka this evening from a special flight to take part in the Economic Forum organised by the government and to be held on January 7and 8 in Colombo.

The Police today arrested two suspects for allegedly assaulting a driver of a lorry at Wedamulla in Kotmale last Monday after a pregnant woman was hit by the lorry.

Environmentalists in Kandy have opposed the proposal of the Minister of Highways and Higher Education Lakshman Kiriella to build a bridge over the Kandy Lake citing Kandy Lake is sacred and should not be touched.

Allaying misgivings about a request he had made to the army, Northern Province Chief Minister C.V.Wigneswaran said, he had merely requested the army to look into the possibility of repairing the drainage system in Jaffna, as it was the army that had

Immigration authorities of Sri Lanka confiscated the passports of two high ranking Maldivian officials last month after they were blacklisted "by mistake," it has emerged.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, who left on a ten-day visit to the UK on December 22, had arrived in the country this afternoon.

The government had omitted certain significant Articles of the 1978 Constitution, including those on upholding the Unitary State of the country and giving foremost place to Buddhism from the new Constitution, Mahajana Eksath Peramuna (MEP) MP Dinesh

More than six-and-a-half years after the civil war between the Sri Lankan government and the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) ended, over 1.22 lakh people from the neighbouring island continue to live as refugees in other countries, whil

Deputy Speaker Thilanga Sumathipala has been elected as the President of Sri Lanka Cricket with 88 votes. Former SLC secretary Nishantha Ranathunga received 56 votes.