A five-hour water cut will be imposed from 10.00 p.m. on Tuesday 29 to 3.00 a.m. on Wednesday 30 within the Moratuwa Municipal area for purposes of maintenance, the National Water Supply and Drainage Board said.

Staff members of Lankaputhra Development Bank, protest against the Chairperson of the bank whom they alleged take proper action against a Branch Manager who had allegedly involved in a massive fraud. ???Pix by Nisal Baduge

The electricity supply in Colombo has been disrupted as a result of a high tension electricity supply line malfunctioning, the Ceylon Electricity Board said

The Road Development Authority said that the country's second expressway-Colombo Katunayake Expressway-collected a revenue of Rs 2.3 million rupees during the first six hours of its operations.

The Chairmanship of the Colombo Process was transferred from the Government of Bangladesh to the Government of Sri Lanka during a meeting held at the Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka in Geneva on 21 October 2013.

Stray dogs that were loitering along the Colombo-Katunayake Highway had been caught and taken away prior to its opening, an animal organization said today. Pictures

The Colombo-Katunayake Expressway declared open by President Mahinda Rajapaksa this morning would be opened for public from 6 p.m. today, an official said.

Describing as “extremely shocking and disappointing” External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid’s reported remarks assuring his participation in the Commonwealth summit in Sri Lanka next month, DMK today urged Prime Minister Manmohan

The Colombo-Katunayake Expressway, which is the second expressway in Sri Lanka, was declared open by President Mahinda Rajapaksa this morning. Pix by Kushan Pathiraja

Chief Opposition Whip and UNP District Leader John Amaratunga who was the only UNP MP to attend the opening ceremony of the Colombo-Katunayaka Experssway (E03) today, said he participated in the event because it was something which was started by the

Two Pakistan naval ships PNS NASR and Khaibar will arrive at Colombo Port today on a four-day goodwill visit, As part of goodwill, Pakistan Navy ships frequently make port calls on Sri Lanka and

A luxury bus plying between Colombo and Jaffna was destroyed by a fire in the Madampe area last night due to a mechanical failure. 27 passengers who were onboard when the fire broke out had however managed to escape unhurt.??? Pix by Jude Samantha

The Colombo- Katunayake expressway was declared open by President Mahinda Rajapaksa a short while ago

Pakistan has decided to start sale of state of the art JF-17, Thunder combat planes developed by the collaboration of China to several other countries including to Sri Lanka from next year, Pakistan’s The Nations news agency reported.

India's External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid will represent India at the Commonwealth Heads of Government (CHOGM) summit, though the Tamil Nadu Assembly unanimously passed a resolution urging boycott of the meeting because of human rights ab

The 14th Annual SriLankan Golf Classic is currently underway at the Victoria Golf and Country Resort course in Digana, Kandy. Over 170 amateur golfers from 15 nations across the globe have flown into Sri Lanka to participate in the event. Pictures by

“Human rights violation takes place in every country in the world. We have our share of it and we are making effort to correct them,” Sri Lankan High Commissioner to India Prasad Kariyawasam said in New Delhi said.

The Indian Premier League's 2014 season will see eight instead of nine teams competing after the BCCI on Saturday terminated the Sahara Group-owned Pune Warriors India (PWI), sources told CNN-IBN.

Three persons including an infant were killed and five others injured in a lorry- van collision at Karuwalagaswewa on the Puttalam-Anuradhapura main road early this morning. Pictured here the wreckage of the van. Pix by Jude Samantha

Sri Lanka is ranked 55th among 136 countries across the world in terms of gender gap, according to the Global Gender Gap Report 2013 released by the World Economic Forum on Friday

At least three persons including an infant were killed and five others injured when a van carrying the victims had collided with a parked lorry at Karuwalagaswewa on the Puttalam-Anuradhapura main road in the early hours today, police said.

A grade-5 student of Namalanga Maha Vidyalaya at Gokarella in Ibbagamuwa, she lives in this wattle and daub house and with a score of 171 marks at the scholarship examination. she has in her own little way proved that poverty is no barrier to reach g

While stating that Sri Lanka is looking forward to hosting the Indian Prime Minister at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in November, the External Affairs Ministry yesterday declined to comment on the resolution passed by Tamil Na

Western Province Chief Minister Prasanna Ranatunga, MP Duminda Silva and SLFP Kotte Organizer and former Minister Rohitha Bogollagama in conversation with Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte Mayor Janak Ranawaka at the opening of the public Wi-Fi zone at &lsqu

United National Party (UNP) Badulla district parliamentarian Harin Fernando today accused the Government of not revealing the funds allocated for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) and urged the government to reveal this to the peop

A joint seminar on ‘South Africa - Sri Lanka joint dialogue non post-conflict reconciliation’, held today at the Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute for International Relations and Strategic Studies. Pix by Nisal Baduge

At the South Africa-Sri Lanka joint dialogue on reconciliation, External Affairs Minister G.L Peiris said lessons on reconciliation could be learnt from South Africa because the country successfully went through a transition beyond apartheid

A lieutenant was hospitalised when he was injured after a mortar struck his spine at the Special Forces (SF) training school in Maduru Oya. Pictures

The first gathering of the Northern Provincial Council and the opening of the new building for the Provincial Council held today with the participation of Northern Province Governor G.A. Chandrasiri and Chief Minister C.V. Vigneswaran. Pix by Romesh

In a show of solidarity, political parties in Tamil Nadu Assembly and outside supported Chief Minister Jayalalithaa’s resolution against India’s participation in the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Sri Lanka, The Hindu reporte