U.N. human rights spokesman Rupert Colville had said Sri Lanka was attempting to ‘sabotage’ the UNHRC inquiry and it raises questions about the government's integrity and are an affront to the U.N. body that mandated the inquiry.

A body which was found floating near the Borupana Bridge on the Ratmalana-Werahera Road was recovered by the police this morning.

United National Party (UNP) National Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe said today a million job opportunities would be generated under a UNP government within five years by establishing export oriented industries in the country.

The ‘Aththa’ newspaper, a publication of the Communist Party of Sri Lanka has been withdrawn from circulation and its newspaper office sealed early this morning on the orders of the Party high command, sources said.

A 34-year-old Sri Lankan was arrested at the Bandaranaike International Airport this morning on charges of attempting to smuggle eight gold biscuits worth Rs.4 million from Singapore, Customs Spokesman Leslie Gamini said.

A 22-year-old Swedish national was drowned while bathing in the sea off Welhenagoda in Ahangama yesterday, the Police said.

India on Thursday refused to take cognizance of a Sri Lankan minister’s allegation that Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) raped Tamil women during the civil war, stating that there was no official complaint from the Sri Lankan government.

The security will be tightened during Prime Minister D.M. Jayaratne’s visit in India tomorrow, Superintendent of Police P. Rajendra Prasad told The Hindu.

IRCON International, the Indian public sector company which has been constructing railway tracks and signaling systems in Sri Lanka for nearly a billion US dollars, has trashed criticism by some Lankans that it has inflated the cost of its project

Sri Lanka's main cemetery is set to introduce a 10-fold hike in the price of burial plots to ease congestion in the capital's most prestigious graveyard dating from British colonial rule, officials said Thursday.

Former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, who recently returned to the country from an overseas stay, is playing a ‘pivotal role’ in working out a common agenda to bring forward a candidate acceptable to all the parties in t

Nearly 1,500 police personnel will be deployed for the upcoming one-day international cricket match between India and Sri Lanka at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Uppal on Sunday.

A 17-year-old youth was arrested for having allegedly harassed the Wariyapola girl by attempting to pull her by the hand while at the Kurunegala bus terminus, the Kurunegala Police Headquarters said.

Three Maldivians who were allegedly on their way to join rebel forces in Syria have been apprehended in Sri Lanka and subsequently deported, the Maldives Police Service (MPS) said on Thursday.

The Police today requested drivers not to speed when driving on the A-9 to and from Jaffna, and especially between Mankulam to Kilinochchi, because of the high death rates reported from road accidents due to speeding.

Police spokesman Ajith Rohana said today that DNA tests would be conducted to identify the unrecognisable body parts that were recovered from the Meeriabedda landslide.

The Madurai bench of the Madras high court on Thursday dismissed a petition that stated that a Sri Lankan court could not try the case of five Indian fishermen who were sentenced to death for smuggling narcotics.

British High Commissioner John Rankin on Thursday called on all Sri Lankans to respect diversity and to work together to achieve reconciliation.

United National Party (UNP) National Leader Ranil wickremesinghe said today he considered it a joke to seek a Supreme Court opinion on the constitutionality of president Mahinda Rajapaksa contesting the presidential election for a third term.

Investigations have revealed that the two Ministerial Security Division (MSD) officers who accompanied Malaka Silva, were not involved in the alleged assault of the foreign couple at a night club in Colombo, the Police said.

Protesting the death sentence awarded to five members of their ilk by a Sri Lankan court for drug trafficking, about 30 lakh fishermen in Tamil Nadu went on a one-day strike on Thursday, urging the Centre to put pressure on Colombo for their relea

Police and Special Task Force (STF) personnel were deployed in Kuttiduwa Beach area in Negombo Town to maintain law and order after a clash broke out between two fishing communities in the area.

Investment Promotions Minister Lakshman Yapa Abeywardana told a media briefing at the SLFP head office yesterday that President Mahinda Rajapaksa would issue a gazette extraordinary on November 19 instructing the Elections Commissioner to conduct

United National Party (UNP) Parliamentarian Mangala Samaraweera, who is in the midst of speculation about plans to join the government, had shelved his decision after the party assured to address his grievances, the Daily Mirror learns.

Former Chief Justice Sarath N. Silva said yesterday the move by the President to seek an opinion from the Supreme Court was to preclude parties such as him from going before the Supreme Court.

The Rajapaksa regime should be defeated and the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) should be allowed to function in order to safeguard democracy in the country, United National Party (UNP) National Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe said today.