Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to visit Sri Lanka soon, Daily Mirror learns.

Isipathana proved to be too good for S. Thomas’ as they routed them by 61 points to nil in the first match of the Singer U-20 Cup Championship encounter played at Havelock Park last evening.

A campaign to collect signatures from the public urging the government to resettle people affected during the war and pave way for them to go back to their old professions was held in front of the Fort Railway Station today. Pic by Pradeep Dilrukshan

Former DIG Vaas Gunawardena will be tried on September 22 for intimidating CID ASP Shani Abeysekera and some other CID detectives while he was being questioned by them over the killing of millionaire businessman Mohamed Shiyam.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa is seen releasing baby turtles hatched at the Bentota Turtle Conservation Project to the sea. Pix by Presidential Media

The schoolgirl, who was hospitalised after she was hit by a train at the Kollupitiya Railway station, died yesterday, police said

Consumer Affairs Authority (CAA) officers confiscated 40,000 kilos of expired chocolate valued at Rs. 100 million in a warehouse in Seeduwa today, when it was about to be repacked, the Internal Trade and Cooperatives Ministry said

Women Police officers would be issued a newly designed uniform comprising a trouser and a shirt in addition to the one they are currently wearing for official duties, police said.

Colombo Magistrate Thilina Gamage today recalled the warrant issued against Sudharma Nettikumara over a breach of trust amounting to Rs.5 million after she surrendered to Court.

UN Children's agency UNICEF warned that Sri Lanka faces severe nutritional challenges with large numbers of children and women affected by Iron Deficiency Anemia ( IDA), the agency said in a statement on Friday.

A non-bailable arrest warrant wasissued today for former Pakistan prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and an ex-minister for their alleged involvement in a Rs seven billion corruption scandal

A Sri Lankan maid who has been in a coma for two weeks as a result of a cylinder explosion died at the King Saud Hospital (Semesi) on Wednesday.

Australian officials have ruled out an area in the southern Indian Ocean, where acoustic signals believed to be from an aircraft had been detected, as the final resting place of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370

Nine-year-old Saubagya Devmini, a girl from Ranseagoda, Kamburupitiya suffering from an acute bone disease met the President at the Temple Trees today along with her parents. Pix by President’s Media

The Walana Anti Vice Squad arrested eight suspects including six women at a brothel in Maradana yesterday, police said

The Air Force today said that the debris found in the seas off Aluthgama that was first believed to be a part of an aircraft pulley and it may actually have come from another type of vehicle or machine.PICTURES

A fire broke out in a room at a five-storey building on the 16th Lane in Kollupitiya a short while ago, police said

The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) has sought a meeting with Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa Jeyaram. Earlier, the TNA leadership sought a similar appointment with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi

A new luxury bus service from Negombo to Matara on the Southern Expressway (E01) was commissioned today under the patronage of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Development Deputy Minister Sarath Kumara Gunarathna at the Negombo Main Bus Stand. Pictu

A student of a leading girls' school in Kollupitiya was hospitalised due to injuries caused after she was hit by the Kalutara-Maradana train at the Kollupitiya Railway station a short while ago, Railway sources said.

Deputy Minister Antony Victor Perera welcomes UNP MP Harsha de Silva with a garland, when UNP MPs visited the Norochcholai Coal Power Plant on a fact-finding mission this morning.Pix by Pradeep Pathirana

The Air Force said today that it would send a team of specialists to examine the objects found by fishermen, believed to be parts of an aircraft

A rim of a wheel has been discovered by several fishermen those sailed from Moragalle in Aluthgama this morning, the Police said

Deputy Minister Sarath Chandrasiri Muthukumarana had been hospitalised when his vehicle collided with a lorry at the Kammalakkulama Junction on the Anuradhapura-Mihintale Road at Kannattiya earlier today, the Police said

United National Party (UNP) Parliamentarians who visited the Norochcholai Lakwijeya Coal Power Plant on a fact finding mission had got a warm welcome with garlands by Deputy Minister Antony Victor Perera today. PICTURES

Four Sri Lankan women are being questioned by Sharjah’s Prosecution after a male compatriot fell to his death from a 22nd-floor apartment in the Al Nahda area

A 24-year-old girl was killed and four others were injured when the car they were traveling crashed into railings of the Wanawasala Bridge along the Colombo-Kandy Road this morning PICTURES

Train services on the Badulla-Colombo line, which was interrupted due to landslides, will resume within two days, the Railways Department said today

The Ceylon Shipping Corporation (CSC) has signed a USD 70 million (over Rs. 9.1 billion) loan agreement with the state-owned People’s Bank to purchase two 63,600 MT DWT bulk cargo-carrying ships from China, to revive the corporation

Teachers and Principals marched towards the Education Ministry in Colombo today protesting against the failure of the government to resolve their longstanding grievances. A tense situation prevailed once the protestors reached the Education Ministr