The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) has decided to accept two ministerial portfolios and the Deputy Chairmanship of the Eastern Provincial Council, TNA Batticaloa parliamentarian P. Ariyanendran said today.

Changes with regard to prisons and inmates are on the cards with the new government contemplating on bringing in new legislations to provide some relief to those who are sentenced to death.

Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera will undertake an official visit to China on February 27-28, at the invitation of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of China, Wang Yi, the ministry announced today.

A delegation from Tamil Nadu Chamber of Commerce and Industry met Union Minister of State for Road Transport, Highways and Shipping Pon. Radhakrishnan in New Delhi recently and made a plea for expediting the Sethusamudram Ship Canal Project through a

A fresh probe, on the Welikada Prison riot in 2012, is underway and the report is expected to be out in a few weeks, Justice and Labour Relations Minister Wijedasa Rajapakshe said today.

The CID has summoned 21 persons in connection with facilitating fund transactions of UPFA MP Duminda Silva, Police Spokesman SSP Ajith Rohana said.

Former director of the Transport division of the Presidential Secretariat, Keerthi Samarakoon has been arrested by the Police in connection with the missing of three vehicles of the Presidential Secretariat.

The UN Human Rights Council’s decision to delay the release of the report into alleged human rights violations during the conflict in Sri Lanka must not allow the perpetrators of those crimes to escape punishment, Amnesty International said.

Major General Jagath Rambukpotha has been appointed as the Commander of the Army with effect from February 22, informed sources said.

As Sri Lanka lost the World Cup curtain raiser against New Zealand on Saturday, another Sri Lankan – umpire Kumar Dharmasena – made a shockingly poor decision, something completely unexpected of an ICC Elite Panel umpire, perhaps endan

Police Chief N. K. Ilangakoon has instructed all officers including Deputy Inspectors General of Police and Headquarter Police inspectors not to visit the  Public Order, Disaster Management and Christian Affairs Ministry without his permission.

Luxury presidential complexes constructed by the last regime in Arugam Bay and in Jaffna are to be converted into hotels, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said today.

The UN Human Rights Council on Monday agreed to delay the consideration of a long-awaited report into alleged human rights violations during the conflict in Sri Lanka for six months until September 2015, the Council said in a statement.

Fifteen Major Generals and three Brigadiers of the Army have been transferred with immediate effect by Army Commander Daya Ratnayake.

Sri Lanka's bid to postpone publication of a United Nations report into alleged war crimes has won the backing of U.N. human rights chief Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, according to a letter seen by Reuters on Monday.

Frosts have appeared in several areas in the Nuwara Eliya District following temperature fell to 5.2 degrees Celsius this morning, the Metrology Department said.

Two armed motorcyclists wearing face-covered helmets had robbed a private bank in Piliyandala town this afternoon, police said.

Sri Lanka and India had agreed to further strengthen their cooperation in defence during the bilateral talks held between President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi today, the NDTV said.

The Police Narcotics Bureau today took 26 tractors into custody found in a warehouse in Sinharamulla, Kelaniya, on suspicion of them being used to transport heroin by drug smuggling suspect Wele Suda.

Those who had deposited funds in some of the Ceylinco Group of companies, which had crashed, accused the present regime of not doing enough to repay the funds owed by these companies and of failing to bring the group’s Chairman Lalith Kotelawal

SLFP National Organiser Susil Prmajantha said they were against the national government or unity government concept and expressed confidence in a UPFA victory at the general elections.

Delhi Daredevils, who have the largest purse of Rs 39.75 crore among all the eight franchises taking part in the auction, bought Sri Lankan captain and all-rounder Angelo Mathews for Indian Rs 7.5 crore, the third highest price in the first two round

India and Sri Lanka will seek to open a new chapter in ties on Monday with a meeting between PM Narendra Modi and Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena who has chosen India for his maiden visit abroad as president. In a likely big takeaway from t

The Dambulla Police Headquarters Inspector had received strange a telephone call from a woman at around 11 p.m. last night asking him to deploy two Police officers, since her children were not engaging in educational activities.