Ven. Maduluwawe Sobitha Thera has been hospitalised this morning following an illness, sources said.

Panadura Urban Council Chairman who resigned from the UPFA said today it was they who brought President Mahinda Rajapaksa to power and it will be they who will campaign to send him home.

Refusing to blame the players for the ODI debacle in India, former Sri Lanka captain Arjuna Ranatunga said the country's administrators are responsible for the fiasco which has disturbed the team's World Cup preparations as well.

Two 57-year old Sri Lankans were arrested at the Mattala Airport by the Customs while attempting to smuggle Rs.14. 5 million worth of gold slabs into the country this morning, Customs spokesman said.

Sri Lankan Ambassador to the UN in Geneva Ravinatha Aryasinha has said Sri Lanka stands ready to share its experience in comprehensive demining as a 'best practice' with countries which are facing similar challenges.

The Deputy Chairman of the Kekirawa Pradeshiya Sabha, Sampath Herath was arrested this morning on charges of assaulting the Principal of the Thibbotuwawa Maha Vidyalaya yesterday, Police said.

The External Affairs Ministry today in Parliament allayed the fears that the docking of a Chinese Submarine in the Colombo Port had triggered security concerns in the neighborhood.

AIADMK Chief Jayalalithaa is disqualified from contesting elections for another ten years, the Tamil Nadu government has said in a gazette notification.

The Chairman of the Film Corporation Ashoka Serasinghe had been removed from his post yesterday (13).

“I have no intention to be the Opposition’s common candidate,” said SLFP general secretary and Health Minister Maithripala Sirisena at a media briefing at SLFP headquarters on Darley Road on Wednesday.

While playing down the issue of the docking of Chinese submarines at Sri Lankan ports, Indian Navy Chief Admiral R K Dhowan said today ‘… that is an issue between the Sri Lankan Navy and the Chinese’, PTI reported.

Panadura UC Chairman Nandana Gunatilleka of the United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) today denied rumours that he was planning to join the United National Party (UNP) as its Horana organiser.

About 350 people of 101families from areas in and around Koslanda had been evacuated by officials because of a possible landslide threat this evening, Assistant Director of the Disaster Management Centre (DMC) Udaya Kumara said.

End of first innings India scored 404 runs for five wickets after batting first against Sri Lanka at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata.

Indian cricketer Rohit Sharma entered record books by slamming his second one-day double hundred off 151 balls  against Sri Lanka at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Thursday.

Two relatives, who were found guilty murdering another resident of the same village, were sentenced to death by Puttlam High Court Judge K.Priyantha Fernando.

President of Mauritania Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz will be visiting Sri Lanka today on transit to Brisbane, Australia, to attend the G-20 Summit, The Ministry of External Affairs said.

The Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) on Thursday said that it had not yet taken any decision to join the common opposition or had any discussions with opposition political parties on a common candidate to be fielded at a Presidential Election.

A massage parlour at Darley Road, Maradana had been raided last evening by the Police Organised Crimes Investigation Unit for allegedly running a brothel, the Police said.

A day after Sri Lankan Deputy Minister Prabha Ganesan announced that President Mahinda Rajapaksa was ready to pardon the five Indian fishermen facing death penalty, presidential spokesperson Mohan Samaranayake on Wednesday told The Hindu : “

A person was injured when he was shot by unidentified gunmen who arrived in a three-wheeler at Nuge Road in Peliyagoda this morning, Police said.

The protest launched by container-lorry drivers and assistants at Ingurukade Junction in Colombo over a dispute with Customs officers was called off a short while ago, Police said.

An agreement between civil society members, political party representatives and trade unions to support a common candidate for the coming Presidential Election will be signed next Monday (November 17), sources said.

Sri Lanka chief cricket selector Sanath Jayasuriya lashed out at the national team’s two senior statesmen Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene for making controversial statements to media and warned that he might have to leave the senior

The Philippines and Sri Lankan embassies in Kuwait have no knowledge of a new mechanism to medically test their workers before they head to Kuwait.

The president of the Buddhist Cultural Renaissance Committee, the Ven. Medagama Dhammananda Thera today criticised the Ven. Maduluwawe Sobitha Thera and the Ven. Athuraliye Rathana Thera and charged that their organisations were backed by non-gove