About 60,000 Buddhist flags sewn in wrong colours and patterns were seized by the Consumer Affairs Authority (CAA) from some shops at the Peoples’ Park Shopping Complex in Pettah today

The Colombo Fort Magistrate today issued notice on Vajira Janaki Nettikumara the owner of the building in which an illegal gambling centre allegedly operated at Union Place Colombo 2, to appear in Court on May 19

The Dubai Criminal Court has ordered the release of the passport of a Sri Lankan witness in the case of rape of a French girl on humanitarian grounds

A man had allegedly killed his wife for enlisting in the Army and later committed suicide in Vallipunam, Pudukudiyiruppu yesterday, the Police said

Pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region have claimed a resounding victory in a "self-rule" referendum, saying 89% voted in favour

Peliyagoda Urban Council UPFA member Chamila Sandaruwan had been shot dead by an unidentified gunman when he was travelling by a vehicle on Old Kandy Road at Dalugama in Kelaniya, a short while ago, the Police said.Pictures

Former North Western Provincial Councillor Ananda Sarath Kumara was sentenced to two years rigorous imprisonment suspended for seven years and was fined Rs.50,000 by the Puttalum Magistrate Court today for getting a teacher who punished his daughter

Despite the parliament green light for the gazette endorsing a pictorial warning covering 80% of the cigarette packet, the Appeal Court delivering its judgement today informed Health Ministry only 50-60% could be given for the warning. PICTURES ???

The two Police officers who were on guard duty at the Gampaha residence of a ruling party WPC member had been transferred to the Hanwella and the Gampaha Police stations, sources said

Despite repeated denials about  the Central Bank’ involvement in the controversial   hedging deal, it had paid as much as Rs. 480 million as lawyers’ fees regarding the transaction referred to the international arbitration

Pope Francis would arrive in Sri Lanka on January 13 next year, inside sources of the Catholic Church in Colombo said yesterday.

The Mercedes-Benz Pageant is an annual event where Mercedes-Benz owners and their families’ drive-in, in their Mercedes-Benz vehicles to enjoy fellowship and witness more than 500 three-pointed stars under one roof. This year the Pageant is bei

Hardly a few days passed since the calling off of trade union action by nurses, when another nurses’ trade union threatens trade union action starting from tomorrow against what they called an ‘intimidation to their duty’ by family

The Police today released a sketch of a suspect in the killing of a Policeman in Kurunegala on Tuesday, May 6.

Five Police officers of the Kandeketiya Police were arrested in connection with the death of an 18 year-old suspect following a postmortem report suggested that the suspect could have been assaulted

The Kalutara Division criminal investigations unit yesterday arrested five suspects who were allegedly involved in a series of robberies in the area, police said

A Sri Lankan woman, who has practically grown in Canada after being in the country for 14 years, then marrying a Canadian and having two kids, is being deported for a missing passport in one of the cruelest cases of aggressive deportation under the S

The Coast Guard on Friday night apprehended 11 Sri Lankan fishermen on two trawlers, who were found fishing inside the Indian Maritime Boundary

Participants at the closing ceremony of the World Conference on Youth (WCY) 2014, held at the Sri Lanka Youth Premises Maharagama today. WCY 2014 kicked off last Tuesday in Sri Lanka under the theme of ‘Mainstreaming Youth in the Post 2015 Deve

Minister for Sports and Youth Affairs in Somalia Khalid Omar Ali is currently visiting Sri Lanka at the invitation of the Sri Lankan government, sources said,

A stock of 150,000 ammunition was recovered by the security forces from the former LTTE stronghold in Vellamullivaikkal in Mullaitivu on Friday, the defence ministry said.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa has said that Sri Lanka is in the process of implementing all demands made by the sponsors of the UNHRC resolution against it, except for allowing an international probe into alleged human rights violations during the last

A Sri Lankan student who found more than $100,000 while cleaning toilets at Channel Nine's headquarters has been richly awarded for his honesty.

Thirty-one Sri Lanka fishermen were caught and arrested by the Indian Coast Guard at Nagayalanka in Krishna district on Wednesday.

The ruling African National Congress party (ANC) has won South Africa's fifth democratic election by a significant albeit reduced majority, debunking speculation that the party would be punished over high unemployment and political controversy.

The Government yesterday told Parliament that it would wait till the Indian General Elections was over to answer a question raised by the opposition UNP about India procuring of arms from Sri Lanka as revealed by the Indian Defence Minister in Lok Sa

The hit and run driver Lalin Priyaratne is seen at the Colombo Traffic Court.  Pics by Kushan Pathiraja

Police said the abduction of the two police constables on traffic duty at the Getinuwara Junction in Kurunegala and the killing of one of them was a challenge thrown by the miscreants at the Police Service.

Several delegates including a Nigerian girl staged a protest during the ongoing World Youth Conference at the BMICH in Colombo over the abduction of more than 200 girls in Nigeria by the extremist militants Boko Haram. Pic by Pradeep Pathirana