Speaker Chamal Rajapaksa has informed Parliament today that the Bribery Commission should inform him beforehand if it wants to investigate or record a statement from any Parliamentarian.

Heavy traffic reported from the Parliament road due to a protest against summoning former President Mahinda Rajapaksa to the Bribery Commission.

Popular singer Haroon Lantra has passed away at the age of 83.

South Korea's Prime Minister Lee Wan-koo offered to resign on Monday amid a growing political scandal.

A.S.P. Liyanage, whose private mansion has become a hot topic; yesterday lodged a complaint with the Colombo Crime Division (CCD) about his house after he had alerted the media that he had been summoned by the CCD for questioning about an alleged mon

Commenting on the charge of providing MP Tissa Attanayake a ministerial post as a bribe, former President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Sunday said that there was no point of holding presidency if he cannot appoint a Minister. 

The Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) yesterday rejected the report by Prime Minister-appointed committee on Central Bank Governor’s alleged involvement in the Bond sale issue and said the report was biased, and therefore it cannot be accepted.

Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) today said that they were shocked by the ‘purported decision’ of the  International Cricket Council (ICC) to withheld monies lawfully due to SLC by way of the financial distributions for the T20 World Cup 2014

Sri Lanka Labour Party Leader and businessman A.S.P. Liyanage today said that he had decided to postpone the offer to hand over his ‘Peacock Mansion’ at Nawala to former President Mahinda Rajapaksa due to certain circumstances, which had

A landslide warning has been issued by the Disaster Management Centre (DMC) this afternoon for six districts for the next 24 hours due to heavy rains.

The $40 million Australia-Cambodia refugee deal caught a snag on Monday when the first chartered flight to relocate detainees from Nauru to the Asian kingdom was cancelled, the Asian Correspondent said.

National Freedom Front (NFF) Leader Wimal Weerawansa said today his wife Shashi had been summoned to the Bribery Commission to record a statement on several allegations.

The Director General (DG) of the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption Ms. Dilrukshi Dias Wickramasinghe has been asked to be present at the Parliament by the Speaker Chamal Rajapaksa a short while ago.

Head of the National Movement for Social Justice Ven. Maduluwawe Sobitha Thera at a Sathya Kriya held at the Fort Railway Station to force the authorities to enact the 19th Amendment. Pix by Pradeep Dilrukshana

Police Financial Crimes Investigations Division (FCID) today obtained a court order to examine the accounts of former presidential chief-of-staff Gamini Sedara Senarath, his close relatives and their business establishments in more than 80 banks and

A petition, against the summoning of former president Mahinda Rajapaksa by the Bribery commission, was handed over to President Maithripala Sirisena in Parliament a short while ago.

Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa is unlikely to report to the Bribery Commission (BC) though it had summoned him to do so on April 24, his spokesman Rohan Weliwita said today.

The Colombo Crimes Division (CCD) had summoned businessman and Sri Lanka Labour Party Leader A.S.P. Liyanage to record a statement under the Money Laundering Act to find whether he had sold his residence to Rs. 450 million.

UPFA MP T.B. Ekanayake who is one of the MPs carrying out the protest said it would not be called off until President Maithripala Sirisena assured them in writing of former president Mahinda Rajapaksa’s safety and security.

A five-acre rubber land had been destroyed in a landslide reported in Damminiyathenna, Haldummulla this morning, the Disaster Management Centre (DMC) said.

A man alleged to have hacked to death his 52-year-old mother and 32-year-old sister in their house at Pundalu Oya in Kothmale last night, the police said.

President Maitripala Sirisena assured yesterday that he would not dissolve Parliament until the electoral reforms were enacted, a party leader said yesterday.

Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa and former Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa have been asked to report to the Bribery Commission (BC) this week to record statements over various allegations against them, highly placed sources said.

Minority Parties which met today to discuss electoral reforms had decided to form a joint committee to work with the government in designing a new electoral process.

It is ideal if we can simultaneously abolish the executive presidency and adopt a new electoral system but at the moment we should prioritise the enactment of 19th Amendment, National Movement for Social Justice Leader Ven.Maduluwawe SobithaThera sai

A body of a 44 year-old woman, attached to the minor staff of a leading school in Bambalapitiya has been found inside the school's store room, Police said.

An 18-year-old girl and her boy friend had reportedly jumped off from the Diyaluma Waterfall in Koslanda this afternoon in a suicide attempt and the body of the girl was found a short while ago, police said.