Speaker Chamal Rajapaksa today informed Parliament that he was still studying the matter concerning the dispute over the Opposition Leader post.

Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU) General Secretary Udaya Gammanpila said today they hoped to get former President Mahinda Rajapaksa to participate in the election campaign after the General Election was declared.  

Visiting Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on Monday assured that Sri Lankan cricket team will tour Pakistan soon, Pakistan based The Express Tribune reported.

A letter, signed by more than 60 UPFA MPs calling for the appointment of the MP Dinesh Gunawardena as the Opposition Leader of Parliament replacing Nimal Siripala de Silva, has been handed over to Speaker Chamal Rajapaksa this afternoon.

Speaker Chamal Rajapaksa will give his ruling in Parliament today on the post of opposition leader, informed sources said.

A television interview of controversial left camp political activist Kumar Gunaratnam had been prevented from being telecast due to external influence from the top, the Frontline Socialist Party charged today.

Wild Life officers took into their custody two elephants found without proper registration documents, as they raided an elephant polo event at the Oruwala Steel Cooperation grounds on Sunday, official said.

Bhutan Prime Minister Tshering Tobay will visit Sri Lanka on Thursday on a three-day visit, the Government Information Department said.

Bank of Ceylon (BoC) General Manager D.M.Gunasekera has been suspended with immediate effect.

The Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) said today it would invite former Presidents Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga and Mahinda Rajapaksa to the party’s May Day rally which will be held at Hyde Park Grounds in Colombo under the aegis of Presiden

Under the programme of providing free Wifi facility covering all 25 districts in the country, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Telecommunications and IT will introduce a new single network to access Wifi service without barriers, Information Communic

A 14-year-old boy had been killed after he was stuck in a paddy threshing machine at Morayaya in Hasalaka today, the Police said.

Chinese Navy Frigate Linyi carrying 45 stranded Sri Lankans in Yemen and 25 Chinese citizens including the Chinese Ambassador to Yemen left the Port of Hodeidah to Djibouti a short while ago, Chinese Embassy spokesman said.

While lashing out at Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe for presenting a new set of Constitutional reforms on Friday, the Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) said that it would not allow the Prime Minister to hoodwink the people as he used to hoodwink the Un

Sri Lanka and Pakistan signed six agreements including one on atomic energy Monday, the two countries’ leaders said, as the strategically important island looks to build its first nuclear plant.

The body of the 39-year-old woman, who was reported to have gone missing from Kotakethana yesterday, was found this morning in a canal, the Police said.

Increasing in UV radiation, the sun coming directly over the country and the increase of humidity had contributed to the increase in the heat-wave experience in the country these days, the Department of Metrology said today.

An unidentified gang that entered the Duwawatta filling station located along the Pitigala road in Elpitiya this morning has trussed up the employees and robbed the safe.

The body of a 20-year-old woman and that of her one-and-half-year-old baby were found inside a well at Mihintale this morning, Police said.

Amid controversy over the opposition leader post in Parliament, the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) yesterday staked its claim for the post saying that it was the single largest party outside the government in the House.

At least five persons were killed and several others injured in two separate accidents in the Puttlam and Marawila area this morning, Police said.

A police Sub Inspector attached to the Bandaragama Police Station was found hacked to death at his home in Panadura this morning, police said.

The opposition representatives   will urge Speaker Chamal Rajapaksa to postpone the debate on the 19th Amendment to the Constitution on the principle that the entire process being adopted for its enactment is constitutionally flawed, a parl

A Sri Lankan who had served at the Canadian High Commission (CHC) in Colombo for more than eight years as a driver had been terminated from service unlawfully based on his ethnicity.

A suspect who had been remanded for peddling Heroin has committed suicide inside the Kalutara North Prison this afternoon.

A tense situation prevailed at an UNP meeting in Ampara, chaired by Prime Ministers Ranil Wickremesinghe, when some of the UNP supporters protested while MP P. Dayaratne was speaking at the event.

Office of the former President Mahinda Rajapaksa today rejected the allegation level against the Rajapaksa government on the road constructions and said that even standard practices in the construction industry are portrayed as instances of abuse by

The mission to evacuate Sri Lankans stranded in Yemen was underway after permission was granted from Yemen for the Chinese Airline to use Yemen’s air space, Foreign Affairs Deputy Minister Ajith P. Perera said today.

President Maithripala Sirisena arrived in Islamabad today, kicking off a three-day state visit, Radio Pakistan reported.