The Colombo District Court today issued an enjoining order restraining the Liberal Party (LP) office bearers from expelling Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha from the Party or functioning as the Party Leader.

The Road from Ceramic Junction to N.S.A junction in Pettah has been closed due to a protest march carried out by the Medical Faculty students outside the World Trade Centre (WTC).

A 33-year-old man was stabbed to death by four people at Jampettah Street in Kotahena a short while ago, police said. They said the assailants had arrived in a three-wheeler.

Police today arrested a suspect over the murder of a woman whose body was left abandoned in a traveling bag at Bastian Mw. bus terminal last week.

Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) Ministers in the present government, in a letter addressed to the President, have sought permission from the Central Committee (CC) of the SLFP to resign from their respective portfolios, the DM Online learns.

A stack of posters targeting former President Mahinda Rajapaksa had been seized from a printing press at Divulapitiya in Boralesgamuwa today, the Police said.

Badulla District UNP candidate Harin Fernando told UPFA candidate Dilan Perera that he himself would have to consume poison when the UPFA was defeated at the parliamentary election on August 18.

Prof. Ven. Bellanwila Wimalarathana Thera has been appointed as the Chancellor of the University of Sri Jayawardenapura for another term by President Maithripala Sirisena.

Deputy Minister Wasantha Aluvihare said today that President Maithripala Sirisena has assured that the SLFP faction backing him would support the UNP after its election victory.

The order on the exhuming of the body of slain national ruggerite Wasim Thajudeen is to be delivered tomorrow by Colombo Additional Magistrate Nishantha Peiris.

The counsel appearing for Reconstruction and Development Agency’s (RADA) former Finance and Administration Director Dr. Jayantha Samarasinghe today informed the Colombo Fort Magistrate that his client was suffering from mental distress and rece

A 46-year-old vendor from the Welisara Economic Centre was hacked to death while travelling in a three-wheeler with his child in Mabola, Wattala early this morning, the police said.

The Tamil Maanila Congress (TMC) will stage State-wide agitation if the 14 Rameswaram fishermen arrested by the Sri Lankan navy on a charge of poaching on June 2 were not released at the end of their judicial remand on August 13, party president G.K.

The security of former parliamentarians will be restored concerning the grave threat posed to their lives in the aftermath of the Kotahena shooting which killed two UNP supporters and injured 12 others, the police said.

A unique method of trafficking narcotics was exposed when Sri Lanka Customs seized rolls of metal fencing mesh which contained heroin inside its cables

No arrests have been made in connection with the Kotahena shooting which killed two people and injured 12 others despite repeated claims that underworld gangsters were involved in the fracas.

A Sri Lankan man was arrested at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) by the Customs while attempting to smuggle out foreign currency worth Rs.4.6 million concealed inside his hand baggage this evening.

The chairman of Litro Gas Lanka Ltd, Mr. Shalila Moonesinghe, on Monday, sent a letter of demand to former minister Bandula Gunawardena demanding Rs. one billion as damages over several allegations he had made concerning the company.

The government today said that if any project is being done by the United Nations as assistance for the resettled people in Northern Province, it would be done through the Ministry of Resettlement of the central government not through the Northern Pr

Commonwealth Secretary General Kamalesh Sharma said yesterday he expected Sri Lanka to conduct a credible poll and vote-counting andupholdelection laws during and after the election was concluded.

The United National Front for Good Governance (UNFGG) today denounced the Kotahena shooting incident in which two people lost their lives and said no candidate should be involved with underworld figures during their election campaign.

Ravi Jayawardena today assumed duties as the Sri Lankan Rupavahini Cooperation (SLRC) Chairman after the resignation of the former Chairman Somaratne Dissanayake.

The United Peoples Freedom Alliance (UPFA) said today it was illegal for the Prime Minister to lay the foundation stone of the Central Expressway.

The Court of Appeal today issued notice on Minister Rishad Bathiudeen to appear in court on September 16 following a writ petition filed against illegal removal of forest cover and illegal re settlement in Wilpattu National Park.

Supreme Court today approved the government’s repayment plan to pay the 41 percent of deposits to the depositors of the Golden Key company and terminated the court proceeding.

A day after busting a fake currency circulation and drug trafficking gang by arresting four people, the police have arrested five more, including the prime accused, on Tuesday while launching a dragnet for five others to pin down the entire network.

A Saudi employer offered his Sri Lankan housemaid for sale for SR25,000 (Dh25,00) in an advertisement he published on a local auction website.

Former UPFA MP Sajin de Vass Gunawardane was further remanded till August 11 by the Colombo Chief Magistrate today on charges of misusing 22 vehicles belonging to the Presidential Secretariat.