Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe said yesterday the no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was a futile exercise because President Maitripala Sirisena would dissolve Parliament within the next few days.

Southern Provincial Council Minister D.V.Upul in an interview has denied saying that officers of the Financial Crime Investigation Division would be stoned and killed under a government of former president Mahinda Rajapaksa.

Showers will develop in the Western, Sabaragamuwa, Northwestern and Central Provinces and in the Galle and Matara Districts during the afternoon or evening as a result of the onset of the Southwest Monsoon and a low pressure belt reported in Arabian

Import taxes on Potatoes have been reduced from Rs.55 to Rs.30 per kilo and Big Onions from Rs.30 to Rs.10 per kilo, with effect from midnight today.

In the wake of three upcountry Tamil parties deciding to join hands with the United National Party (UNP), Arumugam Thondaman-led Ceylon Workers Congress (CWC) said today it would continue as an ally of the United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA).

CID today informed Colombo Additional Magistrate Nirosha Fernando that they had recovered the trishaw allegedly used in the killing of TNA Jaffna District MP Nadaraja Raviraj and sought the Magistrate’s approval to take the trishaw into CID cus

Pakistan Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Raheel Sharif arrived in Sri Lanka on a three day visit, a short while ago.

The opposition is reported to have handed over a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe with the signatures of 112 MPs.

A Sri Lankan who is alleged to have smuggled three gold bars worth more than Rs. 7.8 million into the country from Sharjah was arrested by Customs officials at the Bandaranaike International Airport this morning.

A 19-year-old Sri Lankan teenager was found safe after she disappeared from a bus in Brisbane, Australia on Thursday night.

As the analyst's report and the postmortem report on the death of ruggeritie Wasim Thajudeen who died mysteriously inside a car appeared to be contradictory, there was suspicion regarding these reports, the CID informed Colombo additional Magistr

Deputy Minister Ranjan Ramanayake yesterday charged that certain computer hackers have begun to publish statements which he has never made on the internet using his pictures.

The no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe with 110 signatures of opposition members including ministers, state ministers and deputy ministers was to be handed over to the Speaker Chamal Rajapaksa last afternoon despite atte

Sri Lanka is to purchase gas from a European supplier under favorable conditions in accordance with a new contract which is being finalised in a week, local gas giant Litro Gas said today.

United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, in a telephone conversation with President Maithripala Sirisena, said he looked forward to the enactment of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution.

The Police Department today announced that it would strictly implement laws against motorcyclists from June 10.

The H1N1 flu currently spreading in the country was not bird or swine flu as erroneously stated in some media reports, the Department of Animal Production and Health said in a media release today.

A Colombo Court today directed the Controller of the Immigration and Emigration to prevent UPFA Southern Provincial Council Minister D.V. Upul from leaving the country.

Sri Lanka's capital city Colombo has been placed on top of the list of fastest growing cities in the world, an annual travel study by the MasterCard stated.

The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) today urged the government to appoint the members to the Constitutional Council and re-instate the independent commissions before the next general election.

Consumer Affairs Authority (CAA) chairman Rumy Marzook handed over his resignation to the Secretary to the Ministry of Commerce earlier this week and will cease to serve as the Chairman of the CAA with effect from today.

The Kandhamal administration, in Odisha, India on Tuesday submitted the inquiry report to the state government on alleged sale of kidney in the district and said that a recent kidney transplant took place at a private hospital in Colombo, Sri Lanka,

Two men were indicted this week on capital murder charges in the April 29 fatal shooting of a convenience store owner in Beaumont, United States.

UK immigration officials have detained Janahan Sivanathan, a 22-year-old Tamil asylum seeker from Sri Lanka.

Shashi Weerawansa, the wife of MP Wimal Weerawansa arrived at the Financial Crime Investigation Division (FCID) a short while ago.

Five more Sri Lanka Freedom Party MPs are to take their oaths as deputy ministers of the government today, informed sources said.