A U.S. general was killed and more than a dozen people were wounded on Tuesday, including a German general, in the latest insider attack by a man believed to be an Afghan soldier, U.S., German and Afghan officials said

The members of the Federation of Self Employees staged a protest in front of the Gunasinghepura Bus Stand in Pettah today. The protestors also demanded that they be issued with Divi Neguma identity card for their hawking businesses, among other thi

Elections to the Uva Provincial Council will be held on September 20, Elections Commissioner Mahinda Deshapriya announced

Heavy traffic reported along the road opposite Pettah Bo-tree, towards Technical junction in Maradana due to a protest march carried out by the Self Employees Association, Police said

The ‘Q’ Branch police team from Chennai picked up two Sri Lankan refugees including a woman from a lodge at Thisaiyanvilai in the district on Tuesday

The controversy looming over the decision of slinger Lasith Malinga to represent his Indian Premier League franchise Mumbai Indians in the forthcoming Champions League tournament over the local team he skippered, the Southern Express, was cleared by

Initial plans made for the proposed Kandy Expressway have been changed because hilly areas are an obstruction to the expressway having direct access from Ambepussa to Kandy, the Ministry of Ports and Highways said.

Daily Mirror Sports Editor Channaka de Silva (right) won the Sports Journalist of the Year Award for the sixth consecutive year at the Journalism Awards Night 2013, jointly organised by the Editors Guild of Sri Lanka and the Sri Lanka Press Institute

The Dead and Missing Person’s Parents Front (DMPPF) today charged that certain NGOs and foreign groups had invited relatives of disappeared LTTE cadres to Colombo to give evidence against Sri Lanka via the internet on the promise they would be

United National Party (UNP) parliamentarian Harin Fernando resigned from parliament to contest the Uva Provincial Council as the party’s chief ministerial candidate. Pix by Pradeep Pathirana

The Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) Organisation today said that it would complain to the Bribery Commission as well as to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) about Minister Rajitha Senaratne.

The embassies of France, Germany, Great Britain and Switzerland strongly condemned the disruption by an organized group including monks of the get-together on the theme ‘Sharing and listening session with families of the disappeared’ orga

The OIC of the special investigation unit of the Excise Department who sought a bribe of Rs. 500,000 from a businessman was produced in the Colombo Magistrate Court today. Pix by Pradeep Dilrukshana

The teacher of Nawagaththegama Navodya School who was forced to be knelt down in presence of a local politician had been threatened with death, the Nawagaththegama Police said citing her complaint today

The National Water Supply and Drainage Board (NWSDB) said it had decided not to implement a water cut in Ratmalana as announced earlier. 

UNP Badulla District Parliamentarian Harin Fernando resigned from the Parliament a short while ago to contest the forthcoming Uva Provincial Council Elections.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa today expressed regret over an objectionable article on Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa posted on the Defence Ministry website that triggered a furore in India.

The Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) had today requested the National Freedom Front (NFF) not to contest the elections to the UVA provincial Council, on its own, NFF sources said.

The Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) said today it would contest the elections to the Uva Provincial Council from the Badulla District in a coalition with Minister Rishad Bathiyutheen’s All Ceylon Makkal Congress (ACMC) and the Up Country Musli

The government is actively working on resolving issues concerning Tamil Nadu fishermen, a group of BJP leaders from the state said today.

Thushara Cooray, manager of the Under-15 cricket team from Sri Lanka which came back from Chennai on Monday  told Express that the decision to return was taken by him and not because anybody in Tamil Nadu forced them to leave.

The Attorney General yesterday filed an appeal in the High Court stating that the sentences imposed on the convicts of British aid worker Khuram Sheikh’s murder were not sufficient.

While sending a condolence message to Chinese President XI Jinping on the earthquake that struck the Yunnan province in South West China last Sunday, President Mahinda Rajapaksa said that his government is ready to extend medical assistance to the pe

The United National Party Kotte organizer Parliamentarian Harsha de Silva said tens of thousands of residents of certain areas of Kotte, Nugegoda, Jambugasmulla and Udahamulla within the Kotte electorate have still not got their water connections res

A uni-flow traffic plan will come into operation along Reclamation Road, China Street and Main Street from tomorrow, Police said

The water cut that is in force in Nugegoda, Maharagama, Kotte, Battaramulla and Madiwela will continue until midnight today, the National Water Supply and Drainage Board announced.

A tense situation was reported at the Centre for Society and Religion (CSR), at Deans Road, Maradana this evening when a group of people forcibly entered a meeting at the CSR where the organizers claimed that families of disappeared persons from the

The Court of Appeal issued notice on Minister of Wildlife Resources and Conservation Vijith Vijayamuni de Soyza and Wildlife Department on two petitions filed against an alleged illegal elephant registration racket.

An Officer-In-Charge of the special investigation unit of the Excise Department had been arrested while accepting a bribe of Rs. 50,000 by the officers of the Bribery Commission today.

The main opposition United National Party (UNP) said it would raise questions in Parliament about the incidents which occurred at several Colombo schools last week during a visit by a politician and a singer.