The Public Relations Minister Mervyn Silva said at a meeting held at the Sri Lanka Freedom Party Head Office in Kiribathgoda that he has decided to resign, temporarily, from the post of Organiser of the Kelaniya electorate at the behest of the Pre

The Elections Secretariat has registered 541,131 voters for postal voting which begins Tuesday for the January 8 presidential election, a senior official of the Elections Secretariat said today.

A 22-year-old youth was found hanging in a cell at the Embilipitiya Police and pronounced dead upon admission to the Embilipitiya Base Hospital today.

Four armed men who arrived in a car, robbed a jewellery shop at Athurugiriya Road in Homagama this morning, the Police said.

A Sri Lankan housemaid has committed suicide in the bathroom at her employers’ house in Saudi Arabia.

Several UNP local government members, including Opposition Leader of the Hambantota Municipal Council Auyb Khan were attacked by a gang at protest campaign held at the Hambantota bus halt this morning.

The Johor police in Malaysia have conducted 10,300 raids to tackle prostitution in the state and arrested 2,986 women including six Sri Lankan from January until now.

Three Ministerial Security Division (MSD) officers attached to Deputy Minister Nishantha Muthuhettigama had been arrested last night for attempting to forcibly remove suspects from the Police custody, the Police said.

Seven women and the manager of an alleged brothel, which had been operating as an Ayurvedic medical centre at Nawala, Walikada, were arrested by the Mirihana Police last night.

At least five UNP supporters were injured during a clash between supporters of the UNP and UPFA during a political meeting in Haputale in support of presidential candidate, Maithripala Sirisena, this afternoon.

India will now export two warships to Sri Lanka after delivering a warship to Mauritius for the first time, Minister of State for Defence Production Rao Inderjit Singh has stated.

Kelaniya university undergraduates have surrounded the administration building at present, to express their objection to the administration’s inaction towards the dengue menace that is spreading through the university.  

Two terrorists including a former soldier of the Army’s Medical Corps, Dr Usman who was the mastermind behind the attack on Sri Lankan cricket team in 2009 were hanged in Pakistan after the government ended a moratorium on the death penalty

Opposition Common Presidential candidate Maithripala Sirisena said the country cannot be charged with war crimes in the International Criminal Court, but he will launch a domestic inquiry if he wins a January election.

Residents living in low-lying areas of the Anuradhapura Kumbichchankulam tank have been asked to evacuate as the tank bund is at risk of collapsing, Anuradhapura Municipal Commissioner Sampath Rohana Dharmadasa said.

The Meteorology Department said today heavy rain falls exceeding 150 mm could be expected over most parts of the country specially in the Central, North-central, Eastern, Uva and Southern provinces.

Parliamentarian Jayantha Ketagoda who was a member of the Democratic Party led by former army commander Sarath Fonseka said today that both President Mahinda Rajapaksa and Defence secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa had responded positively to his reques

Bajaj Auto has bagged an order for 1.25 lakh units of Discover-125M motorcycles from Sri Lankan government.

UNP MP and National Youth Front President Ruwan Wijewardene said today the upcoming presidential election would be a crucial one that changes the next decade and would be decisive particularly for the youth because they had been neglected by the p

Sri Lanka is placed 89th out of 146 nations in the Forbes’ Best Countries for Business 2014 ranking, Forbes announced.

Deputy Minister Nishantha Muthuhettigama had reportedly attempted to forcibly take away the suspects, arrested in connection with the arson attack on the stage put up for the opposition’s propaganda rally at Wanduramba, when they were being

A 31-year-old woman and her six-year-old daughter were killed when an earth embankment collapsed on their house at Hasalaka this morning, police said.

Colombo High Court Judge Irangani Perera this morning granted bail to former army Commander Sarath Fonseka’s son-in-law Dhanuna Thilakaratne on Rs 400,000 cash with two sureties for Rs 5 million on each of them in the HiCorp case.

Common opposition candidate Maitripala Sirisena launched his manifesto titled, ‘A Maithri Administration and a Stable Country’at the Colombo Vihara Maha Devi Park a short while ago.  

Leading Aircraftman Lance Corporal Chaturanga, who survived in the An-32 plane crash in Hokandara last Friday (13), succumbed to his injuries last night at the National Hospital.  

The bodies of a 30-year-old woman and her six-year-old daughter were found last night near the 51st milepost at Padiyathalawa in Mahiyangana, police said.