The Avissawella Magistrate today sentenced popular film star and UPFA Western Provincial Council candidate Roger Seneviratne to two years rigorous imprisonment suspended for five years after he was found guilty of causing grievous injuries by frac

A group of students who had failed to gain admission to Law College because of the reduction in the annual intake from this year staged a protest outside Sri Lanka Law College in Hulftsdorp today. During the protest one of the students climbed the

Film and tele drama actress Damitha Abeyratne has demanded Rs. 100 million as damages from popular actress Semini Iddamalgoda for allegedly defaming her.

Union minister of state for prime minister's office V. Narayanasamy on Sunday asked the Tamil Nadu government to reconsider its decision to release three convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case

The Ceylon Teachers Union (TCU) today handed over its collected information to Bribery Commission against the Interim Board of the Education Cooperative Society (ECS). Pix by Nisal Baduge

The Principal of the Matale Wijeya Vidyalaya and a security officer of the Matale main Post Office were arrested this evening for allegedly soliciting a Rs. 150,000 bribe from a woman to have her child admitted to the Grade 2 at the school

Human rights and asylum seeker advocates are condemning a decision to employ a former Sri Lankan military officer as the acting operations manager of the Manus Island detention centre

President Mahinda Rajapaksa charged that opposition parties were attempting to jeopardize the relationship between Sri Lanka and friendly countries by spreading disinformation about Sri Lanka.

The Matara Uyanwatta Model School Principal was arrested today on charges of having solicited a Rs.53,250 bribe from a woman to have her child admitted to the school, the Bribery Commission said

Two persons who came on a motorbike had allegedly robbed the money at the front cash counter in a private bank in Balapokuna Junction at Kohuwela, a short while ago, police said. Update

In a major seizure, two Sri Lankans have been arrested at the New Delhi airport for allegedly trying to smuggle into the country gold bars weighing 20 kg.

A schoolboy had reportedly taken a photograph of a mysterious object that he had seen lying on the ground near an abandoned cemetery in Gurugalhinna, Kahatagasdigiliya that was preserved by the Department of Archaeology.

UNP National Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe has a chat with MP Thalatha Athukorale during the meeting in Deniyaya. Pix by Pradeep Pathirana

Asserting that the arrest of Royce Fernando, a UNP candidate for the Western Provincial Council Election, was carried out only because of the evidences against him, the police said that there was no other reason for his arrest and that it was not don

The Sri Lanka Police is to introduce an automated fingerprint system in order to identify those involved in criminal activities, police sources said.

A youth arrested for proposing to kiss a young woman at the Galle Face Green on Valentine’s Day was ordered to pay a fine of Rs.1,500 by a Colombo Court. 

UPFA General Secretary and Minister Susil Premajayantha is answering a question posed by a journalist at the UPFA weekly media briefing at the SLFP headquarters in Colombo in view of the upcoming provincial council elections. Pix by Kushan Pathiraja&

Afghan President Hamid Karzai postponed on Sunday a planned visit to Sri Lanka over the killing of 19 Afghan soldiers in an assault by Taliban militants.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa has warned parents and teachers against the social media network Facebook and requested them to be more vigilant about the children who use it.

Customs officers of the Air Intelligence Unit, on Saturday, seized 628 grams of crude gold ornaments from seven Sri Lankan passengers who arrived at the Cochin International Airport Ltd (CIAL).

Minister Duminda Dissanayake suffered minor injuries when his jeep collided with a bowser in Padeniya, Kurunegala, early today, police said.Pictures

SriLankan Airlines has made arrangements to operate the London Colombo flight of Sunday 23rd February via Frankfurt to uplift the passengers stranded in the Frankfurt Airport due to an industrial action carried out by the security staff of Frankfurt

Army Commander Daya Ratnayake has ordered the suspension of a Lieutenant Colonel from his duties after he was arrested today by the Police in Anuradhapura with approximately three grams of heroin in his possession.

India’s film censors have refused permission for the general release of a film chronicling the violent closing months of the civil war in Sri Lanka because the documentary may strain friendly relations between the two countries.

UNP Western Provincial Council candidate Royce Fernando was arrested by the police today in connection with the Rs. 15 million-robbery in Negombo on February 17, police said

Several cases of kidney ailments have been reported from Sri Lankan refugees living in Thiruvathavur camp here. Nine refugees have died due to kidney failure in the last four years, revealed a human rights organisation

The Australian Naval Ship HMAS “Melbourne” arrived at the port of Colombo on Friday on a goodwill visit.

A jeep heading from Kottawa to Pinnaduwa caught fire in the Elpitiya area on the Southern Expressway early this morning, police said

Members of the Tamil Nadu Youth Congress on Friday observed a fast in Chennai against the State government’s decision to release all the seven convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case

The conduct of the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) in Sri Lanka 25 years ago was the subject of a complaint received by a government commission probing disappearances of persons during the country's civil war