The Disaster Management Ministry today introduced the hotline 117 to inform the DMC any disasters, the Ministry said

Two minutes silence was observed nationally this morning at 9.25 am in remembrance of the 2004 tsunami victims, Disaster management Center said

The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) has decided to reject the census taken by the Department of Statistics regarding human and material losses incurred by the civil war

Commander of the Sri Lankan Navy Vice Admiral Jayanath Colombage has visited Iran’s 28th fleet of warships, which includes super-heavy Younes submarine, at the port of Colombo.

Opposition Leader Ranil Wickremasinghe today said that politics could be undermined by the entry of half-hearted film stars and sport stars who are not committed to a full-time political career

UNP Parliamentarian Palitha Thewarapperuma and several local politicians together with more than 500 people are now staging a protest demanding that the Baduraliya district hospital that had been closed due to a strike be reopened immediately

Two persons were arrested at the Chennai airport for allegedly attempting to smuggle gold worth Rs 3 million from Sri Lanka today

A team of three officials of the Pakistan Police Narcotics Bureau have arrived in Sri Lanka to help the investigations carried out by the Police Narcotics Bureau (PNB) following the discovery of the largest ever heroin haul of 261 kg detected in Sri

A meeting between fishermen from Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka is likely in the second week of January, 2014, Indian media reported

An individual was arrested for possessing 24 counterfeit notes of Rs. 500 near the Holy Cross Church in Kalutara, Police said today.

To protect its economic interests amid growing strain in Indian ties with Sri Lanka, state-owned Indian Oil Corp. Ltd (IOC) has proposed to jointly develop a key storage facility in Trincomalee as a petroleum products trading hub that will cater to t

The Midnight Christmas Mass was held at St. Anne's Church, Wattala, last night attracting a large number of enthusiastic Catholics.Pix by Pradeep Pathirana

Pakistan has expressed its interest in oil and gas exploration in the seas off Sri Lanka, the Daily Mirror learns

Christmas is celebrated in the City of Colombo with spectacular illuminations highlighting the importance of the day. Pictures by Pradeep Pathirana

The Milco Company said today that multi-national companies could be operating behind the scenes to foment the strike which had been launched by a trade union of the Milco Company staff in order to disrupt the company

The Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) will introduce 92 Octane petrol to the market in January and 98 Octane diesel in April, Petroleum Minister Susil Premajayantha said today

The Australian owner of one of the world's most exclusive hotels was given temporary permission to return to his adopted Sri Lankan homeland Tuesday after being barred in a spat over the national flag

As the world prepares to celebrate Christmas tomorrow, several activities have been organised throughout the country. A devotee is seen here at the St. Anthony’s Shrine in Kochchikade preparing a replica of the Crib - where Jesus was born. Pi

A man who allegedly posed as a broker who supplied elephants and tuskers to the President was ordered to be remanded till January 3 for allegedly cheating a businessman of Rs.3.3 million by promising to bring him a baby tusker from Myanma

The Consumer Affairs Authority (CAA) officials today confiscated 4,000 kilogrammes of dried fish, 3,000 kilogrammes of tamarind, Goraka and 5,000 kilogrammes of law quality onions not suitable for human consumption in a raid carried out in a wholes

United Peoples Freedom Alliance (UPFA) Southern Provincial Council Member D.W. Prathapasinghe resigned from his post after making a special statement in the Council today.

Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC), an ally of the government, will go solo at western and southern provincial council’s election as they did at the previous elections, party officials said today.

Sri Lanka topped the list of having searched for the word ‘sex’ in 2013, while India followed at the second spot, Google reported.

Sri Lankan authorities barred the Australian owner of one of the world's most exclusive hotels from returning to his adopted homeland Tuesday for flying the national flag upside down, officials said.

Tourist arrivals to the island grew only 2.8 percent in the month of November compared with the corresponding period of the previous year, the data released by the Sri Lanka Tourism showed

Twelve police officers, including eight Senior Superintendents of Police (SSP) and four Superintendents of Police (SP) had been transferred with effect from today, Police Media Spokesman said

A Sri Lankan lifeguard has been accused of molesting a 14-year-old teenage swimmer inside the women’s changing rooms at a residential tower in Jumeirah Village in Dubai

A top official in a statement alleged that the Director General of the Department of the Census and Statistics had advised him to ‘massage’ Sri Lanka’s economic growth rate. 

Prime Minister D.M. Jayaratne alleged that he was labelled a drug dealer (Kudda) by some faction in robes, soon after he proposed to set up two Courts (Sanga Adhikarana) for Buddhist monks to act against errant Bhikkus.

Lt. Gen. Mikhail T. Kalashnikov, the arms designer credited by the Soviet Union with creating the AK-47, the first in a series of rifles and machine guns that would indelibly associate his name with modern war and become the most abundant firearms