Opposition United National Party (UNP) Leader Ranil Wickremsinghe said today the new government, which would be formed by the joint opposition after the current regime was defeated at the January 8 elections, would scrap the Colombo Port City Proj

At least 100 people, 80 of them children, have been killed in a Taliban assault on an army-run school in Peshawar, Pakistani officials say.

The 2015 Budget of the Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) was passed with a majority of 30 votes.

The Tamil Nadu government has agreed to set free 30 Sri Lankan fishermen and their 19 boats, currently in custody in the State. The fishermen would be released on December 22.

Six terrorists of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan stormed Peshawar's Army Public School & College on Tuesday morning killing 17 students and a teacher.

Northern Province Agriculture Minister P. Ayngaranesan and provincial councilor K. Sarveswaran of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) were injured in a clash with the EPDP during the Jaffna District Development Committee meeting today, Police said.

Relatives of Sri Lankan fishermen in the Indian custody today staged a hunger strike at the Negombo bus stand, police said.

While seeking to extend the ban on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), the Centre and the Tamil Nadu government told a tribunal that the banned outfit nurtures an idea of “greater Tamil Nadu, which includes the state of Tamil Nadu,

Elections Commissioner Mahinda Deshapriya has ordered officials of the Ratnapura Bus Depot to produce the cash receipts issued for the release of 25 buses to transport people to a political rally in Panadura today.

The Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte Municipal Council has been plunged into a complex situation since this evening triggered by the cross over of four ruling UPFA members to the opposition, Municipal sources said.

Common opposition presidential candidate Maithripala Sirisena said he would not allow those who faced allegations of corruption to leave the country, if he were elected to office in January.

International election observers have started arriving in Sri Lanka in view of the January 8 presidential election, an official said today.

Two people were buried under an earth mound which collapsed on them while they were mining for gems in an abandoned house at Thiriwanaketiya in Ratnapura today.

Five people have fled from the Sydney cafe where a gunman took an unknown number of hostages at the height of Monday morning rush hour.

UNP Uva Provincial Councilor Janaka Tissa Kuttiarachchi has decided to support President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the upcoming presidential election.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa today expressed concerns over the hostage situation in Sydney and said Sri Lanka stands united with Australia in fighting terrorism.

A Sri Lankan clerk has been accused of sexually molesting an 11-year-old schoolgirl while she was present in a shop with her parents in Dubai.

Several people have been taken hostage by at least one armed man at a Lindt cafe in the centre of Sydney.

A Sri Lankan national wanted in India for allegedly plotting terror strikes at American and Israeli consulates in the country has been deported by Malaysia to the island nation notwithstanding India’s plea for his extradition to unravel key

President Mahinda Rajapaksa had appointed another international expert to advise the Presidential Commission to Investigate into Complaints Regarding Missing Persons (Commission) Chairman of the Commission retired High Court Judge Maxwel Paranagam

President Mahinda Rajapaske said he would not allow anyone to lead the people astray and to revert the country to the bullock–cart era.

There was a sinister move by some local and international forces to change the mindset of the Tamil community in order to get them boycott the January Presidential election, Former Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka charged today.

The common opposition today urged the Commissioner of Elections to remove all digital bill boards on roadsides and to halt the live coverage of election rallies attended by the ruling party candidate stating that these were illegal.

A team of Russian aviation experts has arrived in the country to assist in the investigations launched into the crash of the Antanov-32 (fixed wing) aircraft of Sri Lanka Air Force.

The Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) stated that the Inspector General of Police and other police officers would be sued for being cowards unless they implement the country’s laws during the upcoming presidential election.

Sri Lankan Tamil politician and Member of Parliament Seenithambi Yogeswaran has said the Tamil National Alliance (TNA), an amalgamation of Tamil parties, will announce by this month-end its stand on the January 8 presidential elections.