Mauritian Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam has become the third leader to announce a boycott of this week's Commonwealth summit in Colombo over Sri Lanka's human rights record

Police Headquarters said that number of prominent arrivals will take place tomorrow, therefore roads in Colombo would be subjected for three closures throughout the day.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa has approved the promotion of 67 Lieutenant Colonels to the rank of Colonel with effect from November 01 this year

United National Party (UNP) National Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe said today he would handover more powers to the newly-appointed leadership council in the future

External Affairs Minister G.L Peiris and Commonwealth Secretary General Kamalesh Sharma spoke to journalists following the Commonwealth Ministerial Meeting on Small States held this afternoon. The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) wi

The Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) today questioned the government as to what happened to the 45 people who were arrested for gambling during a raid at a gambling den near the Eye Hospital and under whose instructions the 23 officials of the Police Crime

In what appeared to be a consolidation of the charm that President Mahinda Rajapaksa is renowned for, while dismissing questions posed by Channel-4 journalist when he was about to board the car after the opening of the Commonwealth Business Forum, in

The visiting Channel-4 Journalist Callum Macrae, who made the controversial War crimes documentaries on Sri Lankan civil war, said today that he would make documentaries in future if there were evidence on war crimes

A motion calling the President to appoint a civilian as the Governor of the Northern Province had been passed in the Northern Province Council during its second sitting on Monday

Over 300 MDMK activists, including its General Secretary Vaiko were, arrested for blocking train traffic as the dawn-to-dusk Tamil Nadu bandh called by pro-Eelam outfits demanding that India completely boycott CHOGM meet in Colombo got underway.

Australian business tycoon James Packer, who is currently in the spotlight in connection with an up-market casino he intends setting up in Colombo, was among the business leaders, heads of states and other dignitaries who participated at the Co

Ahead of British Prime Minister David Cameron’s India visit, the radical Sikh organisation Dal Khalsa has written to him urging him not to take part in the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Colombo, over allegations of human r

The Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) said that renovation work carried out for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meting (CHOGM) had been successfully completed.

Roads in Colombo will not be closed during the day today other than the scheduled closures from 12.30 a.m. to 1.00 a.m. and from 3.30 a.m. to 4.00 a.m., the police said.

English radio station DJ Ramsey Jaynoor was yesterday ordered to be released from the case filed against him on charges of having harassed the Sri Lankan Pop, R&B and Jazz Singer Umariya Sinhawansa at the World Trade Centre car park.

Channel-4 journalist Callum Macrae is seen addressing the media at the Bandaranaike International Airport today following a group calling itself the “Movement to Promote National Harmony” staging a protest over his presence in Sri Lanka

The Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott won't be joining other world leaders in a boycott of the Commonwealth summit, saying Australia shouldn't be giving lectures to other countries about human rights, the Guardian reported

The United National Party (UNP) today said once the Sri Lankan President becomes the Chairperson of Commonwealth, he would have to implement Commonwealth values exactly without ignoring them unlike now

The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) today urged the government to divulge the ‘political henchmen’ who engineered the transfer of 23 police officers attached to the Organised Crimes Investigation Unit.

Media in India see Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's boycott of the Commonwealth summit in Sri Lanka as a "diplomatic error", the BBC reported

A group of UNP MPs including Ruwan Wijewardene, Harsha de Silva and Ajith P. Perera today lodged a complaint with Police Headquarters against the Australian Business tycoon James Packer who is currently in Sri Lanka, to participate in the Commonwealt

Around a 100 demonstrators protested against the visiting Channel 4 journalists at the lobby of the Bandaranaike International Airport, when they arrived in the country a short while ago

A group of UNP MPs including Ruwan Wijewardene, Harsha De Silva and Ajith P. Perera yesterday lodged a complaint at the Police Headquarters against Australian business tycoon James packer who is currently in Sri Lanka to participate in the Commonweal

The comet ISON, one of the brightest and potentially dazzling comets would appear clearly on November 18 morning to Sri Lankans, Sri Lanka Astronomical Association said

Billionaire James Packer will visit Colombo this week to lobby the Sri Lankan government over his plans for a five-star resort

The Secretary General of the Commonwealth Kamalesh Sharma is currently at a meeting with President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the Presidential Secretariat, the Government Information Department said

At least 14 passengers were injured when a bus carrying employees of a garment factory collided with a private bus in Imbulgasdeniya junction, in the Kegalle-Polgahawela road this morning, police said.  

The president of the Maldives said he will stay in office even though his term ends at midnight Sunday in order to avert a constitutional void that could have arisen due to the postponement of a presidential runoff election.