The suspension of live telecast of parliamentary debates over Peo TV reverberated in the House today with Opposition MPs raising the matter and crying foul over the announced stoppage. They urged the Speaker to resume the telecast of the debates.&

Tangalle Pradeshiya Sabha Chairman Sampath Chandra Pushpa Vidanapathirana, who was arrested last night, was produced in the Colombo High Court and remanded until the trial into the killing of a Britisher was completed. Pix by Samantha Perera

Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen on Tuesday requested for Sri Lankan government's assistance in improving consular services for the large Maldivian community residing in the neighbouring country.

Foreign Employment Bureau (FEB) Deputy General Manager Mangala Randeniya said the FEB was notified by UAE officials prior to the execution of 19-year-old Sri Lankan Ravinda Krishna Pillai, who was convicted of murder.

Charging that the "Rajapaksa regime" has embarked on yet another attempt to incarcerate and silence him by invoking an archaic Victorian law of the Sri Lankan penal code, UNP MP Mangala Samaraweera today said his private life had never b

Power cuts are likely to occur in several parts of the country because the Norochcholai, Kelanitissa, Rantambe and Randenigala power stations were malfunctioning, official sources said.

The arrested Tangalle Pradeshiya Sabha Chairman Sampath Chandra Pushpa Vidanapathirana had been remanded by the Colombo High Court a short while ago until the trail into the killing of a British national is over, legal sources said. Update

UNP National Leader Ranil Wickremasinghe and UNP General Secretary Tissa Attanayake are seen paying respect to Ven. Medagama Dhammananda Thera and Ven. Induragare Dharma Rathana Thera when the monks handed over the Baudda Punarjeewa Commission report

Venerable Uduwela Sumedha Thera who had opposed the opening of a wine store in Wilgamuwa was attacked by a man under the influence of liquor, the Police media unit said.

Tangalle Pradeshiya Sabha Chairman Sampath Chandra Pushpa Vidanapathirana was arrested in Kotte, last night by a special CID team in connection with the murder case of the British national Khuram Shaikh, police said.

The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) in its quarterly human rights report for the last quarter of 2013 stated that the Human rights situation in Sri Lanka had not improved in the last three months despite the intensified international

Describing the arrest of 25 Tamil Nadu fishermen and six boats by the Sri Lankan Navy in mid-sea as ‘an extremely unfortunate episode ahead of the January 27 talks’, Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Tuesday night requested Prime Minister

Former President Chandrika Kumaratunga has personally invited the Mahanayake Theras of the three Nikayas to send their representatives for a meeting of the Forum to promote inter-faith harmony.

New Organisers were appointed to the Western and southern province by the UNP National leader Ranil Wickremesinghe at the Parliamentary complex today. Pix by Pradeep Pathirana

The Government has purchased ten water cannon Ashok Leyland trucks for riot control under the Indian Credit Line worth millions of rupees, the Daily Mirror learns

A Sri Lankan expatriate was executed in the UAE on today for the murder of an Emirati resident, Arabian Business has confirmed

The sudden stoppage of the live telecast of Parliament sessions caught the attention of MPs with UNP MP Ravi Karunanayake asking who took the decision to stop it

The special live telecast that was launched on Channel 91 exclusively on SLT PEO TV in December last year enabling the public to watch the proceedings of the Parliament of Sri Lanka, has been suspended, sources said

Sri Lanka made little progress in 2013 in accountability for serious human rights abuses committed during the civil war that ended in 2009, Human Rights Watch said today

Jathiaka Hela Urumaya (JHU) Colombo Central Organiser Sumith Weliwita was arrested on charges of having attempted to break into the Prime Minister’s office during a protest on January 8, police said

US Ambassador in Colombo Michele Sison today had called for an end to impunity in attacks on places of worship in Sri Lanka, the US Embassy in Colombo stated

One of the four albino turtles brought from the Kosgoda turtle hatchery to the Dehiwela Zoo was found dead last night, a Zoo official said.

In a complaint to the Ratnapura Police, a man said he found nude pictures of his undergraduate wife with four other men in her mobile phone

The wife of the former Officer In Charge (OIC) of the Wellampitiya Police who was remanded on charges of aiding and abetting Heroin peddling, was granted bail today

With elections fever hotting up and speculations rife as to who would be in the fray for the upcoming polls to the Western and Southern Provincial Councils, these female hopefuls yesterday faced the UPFA nominations board for interviews at the SLFP

An eight-year-old student of Ananda College, Colombo was fatally injured after being pinned against a wall by a lawn roller in the school premises.UPDATE

Sri Lankan Navy arrested 25 Indian fishermen for allegedly poaching in the country's waters today, officials said.

Not a single fisherman from TN has been killed by the Sri Lankan Navy since April 2011 in Indian waters, the Central Government has informed the Madras HC (Madurai Bench). Further no warships were being sold to Lanka and only Offshore Patrol Vehicles

Five women were arrested during a raid by the Walana Vice Squad on an alleged brothel being run under the guise of an Ayurvedic Medical Centre in Maharagama yesterday, police said

Syrian government officials could face war crimes charges in the light of a huge cache of evidence smuggled out of the country showing the ‘systematic killing’ of about 11,000 detainees, according to three eminent international lawyers