The Terrorist Investigations Department (TID) called for public support to identify and locate a suspect by the name of Kajiban Ponnaiah Selvanayagam alias ‘Kobi’ alias ‘Kasiyen’, police sources said.

Police searched and secured the headquarters of social media giant Facebook Inc on Tuesday evening after receiving a threat against the company, which San Francisco-area authorities said turned out to be "totally not credible"

Pharmaceuticals have been categorized as a special commodityand as such it is compulsory for importers to obtain the approval of the Consumer Affairs Authority (CAA) before increasing prices,the Ministry of Cooperatives and Internal Trade said today.

Prior to the 135th Battle of the Blues cricket encounter between S.Thomas’College Mount Lavinia and Royal College, Colombo which is scheduled to start today. Pix by Kithsiri De Mel

Police warned the public today to check their land deeds after it was revealed that the CID arrested a man who cheated a lady engineer of Rs.42 million by selling a plot of land using forged documents.

The United National Party (UNP) today launched its manifesto ‘Bala Peraliyata Kola Eliya’ (Green Light for Regime Change) for the Provincial Council elections at its headquarters Sirikotha. Pix by Pradeep Pathirana

Ahead of the proposed talks between Sri Lanka and India to sort out the vexed fishermen issue, a court in Sri Lanka today ordered release of 116 fishermen, arrested over the last two months for allegedly crossing the IMBL and fishing in the island na

United National Party (UNP) today requested the people not to vote for any other small party if they are fed up with the ruling party as the UNP is the only alternative for it ???

The Sri Lankan government said that in keeping with country’s consistent policy of recognizing democratically elected Heads of State, the unconstitutional removal of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych from office is regretted, and has agg

The use of the weedicide Glyphosate has been banned on a directive from President Mahinda Rajapaksa, Deputy Minister S.M. Chandrasena said. He said this weedicide is known to be linked to the rapidly spreading kidney disease in Sri Lanka

In another case of election violence, a UNP aide was stabbed during an altercation with some UPFA supporters at the Yala junction in Anguruwatota last night, police said.

The donation of the five-year-old baby elephant named ‘Dinuda’ to a private zoo in South Korea has been halted on the intervention of President Mahinda Rajapakse. 

A Tamil National Alliance (TNA) delegation led by R. Sampanthan met US and British envoys in Colombo on Monday and discussed the US-led resolution to be submitted at the ongoing United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) sessions in Geneva, informed

Relatives of Chinese passengers on Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 were still clutching to faint straws of hope for their loved ones Tuesday, four days after the aircraft went missing

The Prisons Department had not decided whether to call for fresh applications or not for the position of hangman, Prisons Commissioner General Chandrarathna Pallegama said

The manifesto of DMK party led by M. Karunanidhi said that the DMK would urge the Indian government to take immediate actions for conducting a ‘referendum’ under the supervision of United Nation among Tamils in northern and eastern provin

United National Party (UNP) will launch its manifesto for the provincial council election at its headquarters Sirikotha tomorrow

Former President Chandrika Kumaratunga today met UNP National Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe at the Opposition Leader’s Office in Colombo.Pix by Samantha Perera

Malaysia's military believes it tracked the missing Malaysia Airlines jetliner by radar over the Strait of Malacca, far from where it last made contact with civilian air traffic control off the country's east coast, a military source told

Former President Chandrika Kumaratunga said today the government should uphold internationally accepted norms of democracy if it was to protect the country from international interference.

“I’m making an open invitation to anyone who is contesting from the UPFA to come forward and bring victory for the Kelaniya electorate if they can at this month’s election to the Western Provincial Council under the betel symbol of

Notorious underworld gangster ‘Palankada Heen malli’,alleged to have been responsible for several killings including that of a Ratnapura gem businessman, last month was shot dead in a police shootout today

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) declined the opportunity to interview a Sri Lankan asylum seeker sent back from Christmas Island who alleged he had been “severely tortured” by local police on his return, a cable obtained under freedom

The 20 finalists of the Femina-Miss India Contest arrived in Sri Lanka today. They are to visit historically important sites in their weeklong holiday in the country. The tour was organised by the Cinnamon Hotels and Resorts and the SriLankan Airli

Two Sri Lankan nationals, who were allegedly travelling on fake passports to Dubai, were apprehended by airport security officials last morning in Pune, India

New Zealand needs to lend its support to an independent international investigation into allegations of war crimes in Sri Lanka, Green Party human rights spokesperson Jan Logie said today

Thousands of Tamils demonstrated in Geneva on Monday to protest Sri Lanka's rejection of calls for an international probe into alleged war crimes at the end of its civil war

About 14 patients were admitted to the Colombo National Hospital following a bus accident in Colombo Fort this morning, the hospital sources said

Following the end of the amnesty, the Sri Lankan missions in Jeddah and Riyadh are witnessing a sharp drop in the number of runaway housemaids

A maid who was arrested shortly before attempting to flee the country with Dh55,000 worth of her sponsor’s jewellery has been jailed for six months.