National Freedom Front (NFF) leader and UPFA MP Wimal Weerawansa said today the Financial Crimes Investigation Division (FCID) was set up on the request of Western countries so that those who oppose the West could be arrested.

The Colombo Fort Magistrate had issued an order on eight television stations to submit their video footage of the May Day rally held in Kirulapone to facilitate the probe into the assault on Dr. Nirmal Ranjith Dewasiri at the rally.

Former Minister Basil Rajapaksa and three other Economic Development Ministry officials were today ordered to be further remanded till May 20 by Kaduwela Magistrate Dhammika Hemapala for allegedly misappropriating millions of Ministry funds without T

Nirosha Wimalaratne, who shot to fame as the 'cobra girl' and her husband Ruwan Abeysinghe were released on surety bail of Rs.100,000 each. 

While condemning the alleged attack on Colombo University Don, Dr. Nirmal Ranjith Dewasiri at the venue of the May Day rally of the Consolidated Trade Union Alliance at Kirillapona, the Democratic Left Front (DLF) yesterday said

Rajya Sabha members from the AIADMK, DMK and the CPI want the Indian Central Government to renegotiate with the government of Sri Lanka to reclaim the island of Katchatheevu, the Hindu reported. 

President Maitripala Sirisena, in his meeting with former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, agreed to stop the Police Financial Crimes Investigation Division (FCID) from acting on what he called ‘political directions’.

An Automated Teller Machine enabling Employment Provident Fund (EPF) members to check their EPF balances was installed at the Labour Secretariat yesterday by the Labour Minister. 

Visiting Australian Immigration and Boarder Protection Minister Peter Dutton today said that there was a significant decline in human smuggling in Sri Lanka.

A youth climbed on top of a high tension lamppost in Dikwella on the Rathmale Road demanding a wife, bicycle and house.

The Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) would take legal action against the procedure adopted by the Financial Crimes Investigation Division (FCID) to question and prosecute suspects referred to it by the Cabinet Sub-Committee headed by Prime Minister Ran

The United National Party (UNP) believed that the Parliament would be dissolved at the end of this month following the enactment of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution, Chief Government Whip Lakshman Kiriella said today.

Talks between President Maitripala Sirisena and former President Mahinda Rajapaksa ended with no conclusion on any of the key demands.

The ghosts of previous regime were still haunting the country as seen in the recent attack on Dr. Nirmal Ranjith Dewasiri and Dr. Kusum Kumara at Kirulapone on the May Day, Venerable Maduluwawe Sobitha Thera said today.

Heavy traffic congestion is reported in Nugegoda on the High Level Road due to a demonstration by university students, Police said.

The meeting between President Maithripala Sirisena and former president Mahinda Rajapaksa is underway at the President’s Office in Parliament.

An Indian court has sentenced Bollywood star Salman Khan to five years in jail for killing a homeless man in a 2002 hit-and-run driving incident in Mumbai, the BBC said.

A 19-year-old suspect was arrested by the Beaumont police in Texas, US in connection with the killing of Sri Lankan store owner in Beaumont.

The International Monetary Fund raised concern on Wednesday over Sri Lanka's fiscal deficit in 2015 and the medium term after the new government increased wages and spending.

Bollywood star Salman Khan has been convicted in a 13-year-old hit and run case. A court in Mumbai held him guilty of running over people sleeping on the pavement with his SUV on September 28, 2002.

Former minister and UPFA MP Johnston Fernando and former Lak Sathosa Chairman K.M.R. Fernando were further remanded until May 11 after being produced before Kurunegala Chief Magistrate Ravindra Premaratne this morning.

Fiji has appointed another Sri Lankan judge to its Court of Appeal, the 10th Sri Lankan on the court's bench.

Sri Lanka great Kumar Sangakkara has signed with Hobart Hurricanes for the next two Big Bash League seasons in Australia.

A Ukip parliamentary candidate has been suspended from the party after he was filmed threatening to shoot his Conservative rival Ranil Jayawardena.

The meeting between President Maithripala Sirisena and former president Mahinda Rajapaksa would only be limited to party level discussions and would be held without damaging the trust vested in the President by 6.3 million people, the President&rsquo

The fundamental rights petition filed by three good governance activists, Dr. G. Usvatte-aratchi, Dr. A.C. Visvalingam and Chandra Jayaratne seeking an independent and competent inquiry into the controversial Central Bank bond issue is to resume befo

Unites States Secretary of State, John Kerry had indicated that Sri Lanka’s tea trade, which was affected by US sanctions on Iran, would be normalised   within few weeks, a minister said yesterday.