New Zealand Prime Minister John Key said on Monday he will attend a Commonwealth summit in Sri Lanka despite his Indian counterpart pulling out amid pressure for a boycott over alleged war crimes by Colombo.

Britain said that it was disappointed that Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG) has not addressed Sri Lanka’s human rights situation more substantively in their its meetings.

The Colombo-Katunayake Expressway, Baseline Road from New Kelani Bridge to Boraella Cemetery Junction, Bauddaloka Mawatha to Bambalapitiya Junction and Galle Road from Bambalapitiya Junction..

A foreign delegate who attended the Commonwealth (CHOGM) Youth Forum in Hambantota today tries to imitate the Kandyan dancers of the troupe that performed the welcome dance at the forum. Pic by Santha Ratnayake

Twenty people including the driver and conductor of a bus that had been heading back to Panadura after a trip to Ambuluwawa in Gampola were injured when the bus plunged down an embankment due to break failure this afternoon, police said.

The Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) today conducted a dengue eradication campaign at Vihara Maha Devi Park. Pix by Kushan Pathiraja

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday wrote to Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa regretting his inability to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) from November 15.

Two persons bathing in the Ginganga near the Ginthota Bridge in Galle went missing this evening, while another was rescued from drowning, police said.

Referring to the uncertainty over Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's scheduled visit to Sri Lanka for the CHOGM meet, Bharathiya Janatha Party leader M. Venkaiah Naidu found fault with the Congress for lacking clarity on a delicate foreign policy is

Commemoration and Remembrance Day (Poppy Day) was organised by the Sri Lanka Ex-Servicemen’s Association held at the War Memorial at the Vihara Maha Devi Park today. Pix by Kushan Pathiraja

New Zeeland Green Party MP and Australian Senator who were detained earlier in the morning by the Department of Immigration in connection with violation of Immigration laws had been allowed to leave the country a short while ago. Pictures

Passports of a New Zealand Green Party Parliamentarian Jan Logie and Senator Lee Rhiannon from Australia had been impounded by the Sri Lankan immigration officials for violating immigration regulations, an official said.

Sri Lankan couple Nisansala and Nalin take a group photo during their wedding ceremony as they break the Guinness record for a wedding with the most bridesmaids for a bride in Negombo

British Prime Minister David Cameron said that he has watched the latest Channel-4 video on alleged war crimes by Sri Lanka and said that Sri Lanka has "serious questions" to answer about war crimes allegedly committed during its civil war,

Police in the Philippines say they fear 10,000 people may have died in the devastation wreaked by Typhoon Haiyan. The Philippine government has so far only confirmed the death of several hundred people after the storm struck.

A large stock of weapons and ammunitions, including swords and knives were found from a house in Mirihana this evening, police said.

Indian External affairs minister Salman Khurshid will head the Indian delegation at the CHOGM to be held in Sri Lanka next week with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh deciding against undertaking the visit in view of the opposition by parties in Tamil Na

The Government will not provide visas to any foreigner to attend conferences or meetings with Government officials in November except to those attending the scheduled events of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), the Ministry of Ext

Commonwealth Secretary General Kamalesh Sharma arrived in Colombo a short while ago to attend the forthcoming Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Colombo

Typhoon Haiyan, possibly the strongest storm ever to hit land, has devastated the central Philippine city of Tacloban, killing at least 100 people and destroying most houses in a surge of flood water and high winds, officials said on Saturday

The Prime Minister’s Office late on Friday night denied that a final decision has been made to cancel Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s proposed visit to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Colombo beginning on November 15

The National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) in Pakistan has won the Sri Lanka Identity Card project.

The Commonwealth Secretariat will assist Sri Lanka in setting up a National Inquiry on Torture, its Secretary-General Mr. Kamalesh Sharma said in an interview to The Hindu at the Secretariat headquarters at Marlborough House on the eve of his departu

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) is yet to pay a sum of $30,000 to Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) for hiring a chartered plane after an armed attack on their team back in 2009.

The bus halt outside the Fort railway station is seen removed to put up a new bus halt in line with the city decorations for the CHOGM. Pix by Pradeep Pathirana

United National Party (UNP) Western Provincial Councillor Harshana Rajakaruna said the government was spending billions of rupees for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) while turning a blind eye to the plight of the poor, who were b

Pakistan Customs on Friday seized about three kilogrammes of heroin that was being smuggled from Karachi airport to Sri Lanka through a courier company in a wooden box declared to contain crockery.

Amid growing political controversy over India’s participation in the Commonwealth Heads of Government (CHOGM) meet in Sri Lanka, Congress top brass on Friday deliberated on the issue. A decision, however, is yet to be taken on whether Prime Min

Veteran actor and former Southern Provincial Council member  Cyril Dharmawardana (67) passed away today (November 8) at the Melbourne Peter Mac Hospital in Australia after battling cancer for the past couple of years, industry sources said.

The second phase of the World Bank funded Colombo City development project will include the extension of the Marine Drive to Roxy Theatre, to construct two beach parks in Crow Island and Marine Drive while constructing two fly overs for Pedestrians i