Two persons had been arrested today on charges of killing a 20 year-old youth from Kahapola, Piliyandala in January.

Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa stated that Sri Lanka’s relationship with China would never pose a threat to the relationship it shared with India.

The Treasurer of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) S. B. Nawinne had crossed over to the United National Party (UNP), the UNP said today.

A former Indian Supreme Court Judge, Justice Markandey Katju had said Rajiv Gandhi killers should be pardoned and set free now as they had been in jail for 24 years, Deccan Chronicle reported.

Construction of the Matara -Hambantota segment on the Southern Expressway (E01) was launched by President Maithripala Sirisena today at Godagama, Matara.

President Maithripala Sirisena today said he will not allow the ‘silent revolution’ carried out on January 8, to be revoked.

Former Minister T.B. Eknanayake says former President Mahinda Rajapaksa will be contesting in the upcoming General Elections from the Kurunegala District.

Western Provincial Councilor Hirunika Premachandra said that she would not remain in the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) if former President Mahinda Rajapaksa was given nominations to contest from the party.

Six women employed in a brothel in Kollupitiya that operated under the guise of a massage parlour, have been arrested last night, the Police said.

JVP central committee member Sunil Handunnetti said they were not surprised by the decision taken to give nominations to former President Mahinda Rajapaksa under the United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA).

Retired Chief of Defence Staff, Lt. Gen. Jagath Jayasuriya, has reportedly not been granted a visa to visit the United States although his wife had been granted one in May this year.

Speaking on the decision of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa to re-enter into politics, UNP Spokesman Akila Viraj Kariyawasam said Mr. Rajapaksa behaves like a crab dancing in a boiling pot of water.

The United National party (UNP) said today it would request for a detail report from the National Dangerous Drugs Control Board (NDDCB) about those who involved in drugs, ethanol or any other illegal business before finalizing nominations.

President Maithripala Sirisena has agreed to give nominations to former President Mahinda Rajapaksa to contest from United Peoples Freedom Alliance (UPFA), General Secretary Susil Premajayantha said today.

Parliamentary Committee on Public Enterprises Chairman DEW Gunasekara said today it was up to the President Maithripala Sirisena to obtain a copy of the report of the sub-committee that probed the controversial sale of Central Bank bonds and take app

Polonnaruwa High Court Judge Amendra Seneviratne today sentenced a former LTTE cadre to 10 years of rigorous imprisonment after he was found guilty of having been involved in an assassination attempt in 2005 on President MaithripalaSirisena who was a

An object believed to have been from a light aircraft has fallen on the M.D.H. Jayawardena Junior School play grounds at Thalangamathis morning, police said.

Bail applications filed by two suspects currently in remand custody over suspicion of the Kotakethana double murder case, has been rejected by the Colombo High Court today.

Three members of the same family were killed when a three-wheeler they were travelling in and a van collided head-on at Iluppakadawai in Kilinochchi last evening, police said.

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President Maithripala Sirisena had reportedly told a UPFA party leaders meeting yesterday that he was not in favour of making former president Mahinda Rajapaksa the prime ministerial candidate or the group leader of the UPFA at the forthcoming genera

Chief Minister of the Western Provincial Council Prasanna Ranatunga said today that he would contest the upcoming general election together with former Prsident Mahinda Rajapaksa, whether the latter contests from the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) or

President Maithripala Sirisena has apparently rejected to give nominations to former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, sources said.

Central Bank Governor Arjuna Mahendran left the island even without passing over his liabilities to another official or informing relevant authorities, Bandula Gunawardena charged today.

Alluding to a certain split within the SLFP led UPFA, Minister Sarath Amunugama said the SLFP felt the situation came as a miserable pleasure because the gap created by the Mahinda Rajapaksa faction's exit, could be filled with educated youth in

State-owned Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (Ceypetco) has suspended oil contracts worth millions of dollars signed last year for fuel deliveries, the CPC Chairman told Reuters today.

The JVP today alleged it was clear from the written evidence in the Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) report that Central Bank Governor Arjun Mahendran had intervened in the Central Bank Treasury bond issue.