Two factories in Ja Ela and Kiribathgoda were gutted by fires last night that caused extensive damage to their property. A fire broke out at the Nagindas Garment Factory in Ekala, Ja Ela at around 7.30pm yesterday.

Rejecting the ‘hopper revolution’ remark made by MP Wimal Weerawansa on Wednesday, Minister Dayasiri Jayasekara said today that the former would end up in a garbage dump for bringing up rotten issues.

A woman was killed and another three injured when the car they were travelling collided with a train plying from Katunayake to Kolonnawa at the Railway crossing at Halpe in Kandana this afternoon, Police said.

Two policemen and a car driver who were shot at by a man at Bulugaha Junction in Kelaniya were admitted to the National Hospital this afternoon, Police said.They said a car and a lorry had collided at the junction before the police officers arrived a

Colombo Chief Magistrate Gihan Pilapitiya today permitted Former Cabinet Minister of Co-operatives and Internal Trade Johnston Fernando to go to Singapore with his wife from January 4 to 7 to take treatment to his wife.

Scientists had warned that the Jaffna Peninsula might be obliterated from the Sri Lankan map due to rising sea level and the polluted underground water, a Provincial Council Minister told the Daily Mirror today.

The Colombo Magistrate’s Court today ordered the television stations which covered UNP MP Hirunika Premachandra’s news briefing -- on the abduction of a man at Dematagoda -- to hand over their video footage to the Police.

High speed internet access in Sri Lanka would not be affected and instead, the Telecommunication and Digital Infrastructure Ministry was taking measures to increase the internet speed through FBH (Fiber to Home), Minister Harin Fernando said yesterda

A total of 1,000 motorbike riders and passengers had been killed in fatal accidents this year, the Police said today.They said a majority of deaths had been reported in accidents which had occurred when motorbikes had collided with other vehicles.

Budget allocation for the ministries under the purview of the Western Provincial Council Including its Health Ministry was passed unanimously today.

Pakistan is expected to secure an agreement for the sale of the JF-17 Thunder Aircraft during Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's visit in Sri Lanka in the first week of January 2016, IHS Jane's Defence Weekly reported on Tuesday.

Sri Lanka Navy has assisted the Sri Lanka Coast Guard to arrest 29 Indian fishermen along with three fishing trawlers poaching in Sri Lankan waters in the Northeast of Kokilai on Wednesday.

Twelve police officers including three Chief Inspectors and nine Police Inspectors were transferred with immediate effect due to requirement of the service, the police media division said today.

Sri Lanka and China are set to take a final decision on the proposed Colombo Port City as well as several other development projects at a top-level meeting to be held on January 6 between a high powered Chinese delegation and the Sri Lankan governmen

The plan to construct a bridge connecting Sri Lanka and India will suffer the same fate as the Sethu Samurdram project due to environmental issues, a minister said yesterday.

National Freedom Front (NFF) leader Wimal Weerawansa said today that the government was making arrangements to waste people’s money on celebrations to mark the ‘hopper revolution’ in January.

JHU Spokesman and former Western Province Health Minister Nishantha Sri Warnasinghe said today he was removed from his ministerial portfolios in an act of political revenge because he had lodged complaints with the Bribery Commission and other law en

In a bizarre turn of events, the newly appointed Director General of the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (TRC), Sunil S. Sirisena has decided to discontinue the National Broadband Initiative (NBI), which ensured high speed broadband internet

Parliament will be converted to a Select Committee which will be responsible for drafting the new constitution, Constitutional Committee Adviser and MP Jayampathy Wickramaratne said today.

The Joint Opposition today charged that there was a ‘Constitutional Coup’ backed by the western countries and that’s what had made the government to introduce a new Constitution.

Disciplinary action will be taken against UNP parliamentarian Hirunika Premachandra if she is found guilty of being involved in the recent abduction drama, a senior minister said today.

The Colombo Municipality today blacklisted the Company, Live Events which organised the Enrique Iglesias concert at the CR&FC Grounds. The main stakeholders of the company are former cricketing stars Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardane.

Former IGP Indra de Silva had passed away today at the age of 71 while undergoing treatment at the Police Hospital.He had been receiving treatment at the hospital for an illness and had died on admission to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

Releasing of results of the GCE A/L Examinations held in August has been postponed till January 3, 2016, the Examinations Department announced.

Heavy traffic was reported near the World Trade Centre in Fort as a result of a protest by Joint Union of Port Transport workers against the increase of the vehicle entrance fee to the Colombo Harbour, Police said.

Colombo Additional Magistrate Augusta Atapattu today criticised the Wellampitiya Police and remanded the Kolonnawa UC Chairman till January 4 on charges of assaulting the participants of a peaceful picket against the garbage dumping in Kolonnawa by t

UPFA MP Namal Rajapaksa has been asked to report to the Colombo Crime Division (CCD) today to give a statement, the details are still unknown, sources said.