The Sri Lanka Navy arrested 29 Tamil Nadu fishermen and took into custody seven trawlers last night, Navy Spokesman Kosala Warankulasooriya said

Rajarata University students who were staging a ‘Satyagraha’ near the Rajarata University in Mihintale had been forcibly removed by the Mihintale Police from the site, the Inter University Students Federation (IUSF) charged today

Hundreds of people belonging to various Tamil nationalist outfits, led by the May 17 Movement, were arrested after they attempted to besiege the UNICEF office in Adyar

A French media firestorm has been circulating claims that Barack Obama and Beyonce are dangerously in love

Popular actor turned politician Ravinda Yassas yesterday charged that there could be a political motive behind the sudden ban of the TV Drama ‘And Company’ which is being telecast over a private TV channel

Water supply will be interrupted from 8a.m to 5p.m. from tomorrow to16 in Colombo and its suburbs due to a power outage at the Biyagama water filtration centre, the National Water Supply and Drainage Board (NWSDB) said

India’s External Affairs Minister Salman Kurshid today urged the Sri Lankan leadership to look at “possible ways to avoid an hostile attitude towards people and countries that matter,” in the light of a likely US-sponsored resolutio

SLFP General Secretary of the SLFP, Health Minister Maithripala Sirisena seen in a jovial mood at today’s media briefing at the SLFP head office at T.B. Jayah Mawatha. Ministers Nimal Siriripala De Silva and John Seneviratne were also present

The Janatha  Vimukthi  Peramuna (JVP) said today the Bribery Commission had acted in an arbitrary manner and in violation of natural justice when it dismissed the complaint against the Bribery Commissioner Jagath De Silva Balapatabendi.

Popular actress Ruwanthi Mangala who was in the spotlight a few weeks ago when she faced the SLFP nomination board expressed yesterday her ....

Sri Lanka had been ranked 165th in the list of 180 countries in the World Press Freedom Index 2014, Reporters without Borders said in its annual report

A protest was launched in front of the Department of Pensions by its employees yesterday urging the department to remove the Director General from his post, among several other demanding. Pix by Kushan Pathiraja

Traffic on Muttiah Road, Colombo 2 will be restricted from 4.00 p.m. today until February 16 in view of the Gangarama Nawam Perahera, Police said

The postmortem examination of the Peradeniya University student’s body has revealed that his death had resulted from suicide by hanging from a tree, police said

A Sri Lankan national who had recently graduated from college, was found dead in a condominium in Kuala Lumpur, in what is believed to be a sex act gone wrong

Amid numerous financial and other difficulties, M.K. Somaratne and his wife Alan Kotlin are seen at their home at Ambagamuwa in Ginigathhena taking care of three grown-up sons, who are disabled. They stand out as an example of selfless service in t

A body of unidentified person has been found in a three wheeler in Polwatte, Pannipitiya this morning, Police Spokesman SSP Ajith Rohana said. PICTURES

A group of 75 would-be asylum seekers including six children were taken into custody by the Police in the  Moragolla, Beruwela area while trying to flee to New Zealand illegally  yesterday, police said.PICTURES