Carpenters of Moratuwa staged a protest at Kurusa junction on the Galle Road today against a budget proposal to remove furniture transport permit.  Pix by Siri Mahabellana

Two Japanese Maritime Self Defence Force (JMSDF) ships, Samidare DD-106 and Sazanami DD-113, arrived at the Port of Colombo for a goodwill and supply visit today.

Some 500 carpenters in Moratuwa are staging a protest at Kurusa Junction on the Galle road against the Budget proposal enabling the transport of furniture without permits

Sri Lanka on Thursday said it had “nothing to hide” as it began compiling a death toll from its war against Tamil separatists, AFP reported today.

Rejecting claims that the UNP Leadership Council had no powers vested in it, UNP parliamentarian Lakshman Kiriella today said some elements were attempting to shatter the new unity that’s emerging within the party

Government hospital in-house patients could get medicines free of charge on prescriptions from nearby state Osu Sala outlets whenever hospital staff went on strike, the Health Ministry said

An armed gang had pelted stones at Northern Provincial Council Fisheries Minister Ponnuthurai Aingaranesan and Council member Arnold’s houses in Jaffna this morning, sources said.

A New York-based human rights group is calling on the prime minister to retract some comments he made during a recent visit to Sri Lanka for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.

The Indian Coast Guard on Tuesday detained six Sri Lankan nationals on board a fishing boat in Indian waters. According to an official release, the Indian Coast Guard Ship ‘Vishwast’ intercepted the boat off the Ramayapatnam coast.

Bharat Joshi, the new British deputy high commissioner to India, on Wednesday stressed that he believed that his country was right in attending the recently concluded Common Wealth Heads of Government Meet ( CHOGM) in Sri Lanka

The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) yesterday distanced itself from the statement made by its MP S. Sritharan eulogising the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and its leader Velupillai Prabhakaran

Within days after catching a passenger who had stuffed two gold biscuits in his anus, the Customs officials at Madurai airport caught another passenger on Wednesday for attempting to smuggle four gold biscuits by tying them with a handkerchief under

Sri Lanka today agreed to revise its sports law which is in force since 1973 in order to make it compatible with the basic principles which govern the Olympic Movement, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said in a statement.

A Naval Ship of Indian Navy arrived at the Port of Colombo this morning on a goodwill visit, the navy said.

Fifty six student Cadets and twenty five staff of the National Cadet Training headquarters in Randenigala had been hospitalised due to food poisoning this afternoon. Pictures

Roads in Colombo Fort and Galle Face are seen barricaded with sand bags in preparation for the Colombo Night Races, which draws thousands of spectators to Colombo. It is held for the second time on December 14 and 15. Pix by Samantha Perera

The Australian government on Tuesday extended its ban on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealam (LTTE) for a further period of three years.

The Colombo District Court issued a restraining order against 16 Health Trade Unions preventing them from strike action till December 11, after a complaint was lodged by a patient

The Peliyagoda Urban Council budget presented by the UPFA administration was defeated at its second reading today with three UPFA Councillorsalso voting against the budget.

The All Ceylon Transport Workers Union (ACTWU) today lodged a complaint with the Sri Lanka Human Rights Commission against a government circular which prohibits the use of mobile phones by SLTB bus drivers and conductors while on duty. The union sa

The Norwegian Tamil poet and actor V.I.S Jeyapalan who was arrested by the Terrorist Investigation Department last Friday in Vavuniya for violating visa regulations had been deported last night, Immigration and Emigration Department said today.

Two Lankan women and a girl were arrested while attempting to smuggle unfinished gold jewellery to Chennai this morning by the Customs officers at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA), Customs Director and media spokesman Leslie Gamini said

Thousands of patients were stranded when several Hospitals came to a standstill after Health officers including nurses and paramedics launched a strike today. Pix by Pradeep Pathirana

Four suspects were arrested on charges of operating a brothel at Sangaraja Mawatha in Maradana by the Walana Police Crime Division yesterday, Police said

Two more suspects in the killing of a policeman and his wife in Kamburupitiya, drowned after jumping into the Denagama river, while they were trying to escape from the police custody in the early hours today, police said PICTURES

The construction work on the northern expressway linking Colombo to Kurunegala, Dambulla and Kandy, will begin in January, Minister Nirmala Kotalawala said yesterday

Sri Lanka National Olympic Committee (NOC) chairman Hemasiri Fernando launched a scathing attack on Sports Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage today, alleging that the minister has destroyed the autonomy of country’s sports associations by changi

British Prime Minister David Cameron on Tuesday demanded a "transparent, credible and independent" probe into the alleged massacre of Sri Lankan Tamils, days after he pressed President Mahinda Rajapaska for an enquiry into rights violations

Senior Chinese and Sri Lankan defense officials agreed on Tuesday to promote military cooperation between the two countries.

The Customs Department intends to introduce new rules regarding the wearing and carrying of gold jewellery by people traveling abroad, after a gold smuggling racket was detected in Kochi, said a Customs Dept. spokesman