Industry and Commerce Minister Rishad Bathiudeen today arrived at the Presidential Commission of Inquiry to Investigate and Inquire into Serious Acts of Fraud, Corruption and Abuse of Power, State Resources and Privileges (PRECIFAC).

Sri Lankan Ambassador to Qatar, Prof (Dr) W M Karunadasa, yesterday clarified that the Stafford Sri Lankan School Doha will not be closed, as suspicion has been created in the community following a letter issued by the embassy on conducting board mee

Sri Lanka is seeking a partner from the Indian subcontinent to develop a port designed to be its deepest and accommodate the world’s largest container vessels, Shipping Minister Arjuna Ranatunga said on Thursday.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to visit Sri Lanka from August 31st to September 2, his office announced.

Prime Minster Ranil Wickremesinghe, yesterday, in Parliament, agreed to allow the Janatha Vimukthi Peramun (JVP) to move an amendment to the Office of Missing Persons Act later.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has requested Law Order Minister Sagala Ratnayake to submit a report to him on the way the police conducted the investigation of the abduction and killing of millionaire Mohamed Suleiman, sources said yesterday.

Based on the concept that the law should be equal to everyone, Colombo Additional Magistrate Nishantha Peiris yesterday using the legal powers vested on a Magistrate, included the Scottish Engineer, who was allegedly involved in a brawl with Malaka S

The five men who drowned off Camber Sands in East Sussex, England have not yet been identified as Sri Lankans, the Sri Lankan High Commission in the UK said this afternoon.

President Maithripala Sirisena today rejected the news report that appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald website that he and his adviser allegedly demanded a political "donation" to be paid by the iconic Snowy Mountains Engineering Company

The joint opposition today requested President Maithripala Sirisena to call for a local investigation regarding the news reports in the Australian media involving the name of President Sirisena over a bribery investigation conducted on a company ther

The Army has evacuated the Kudiyiruppu Camp which was in the hands of the army for the past 26 years.

The Presidential Secretariat will issue a full statement in the days to come on the news reports published in Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation among the Australian media on an alleged attempt to obtain a fina

Colombo Additional Magistrate Nishantha Peiris today issued a travel ban order on five individuals, who are alleged to have been involved in the abduction of the Bambalapitiya businessman whose body was found in Mawanella last night.

Five men who drowned off Camber Sands in East Sussex, England were a group of Sri Lankan friends visiting from London - but beachgoers today urged police to reveal more about their mysterious deaths.

TM Dilshan will retire from one day international (ODI) cricket after the third ODI between Sri Lanka and Australia on August 28 in Dambulla.

While denying the statement made by a parliamentarian, Army Commander Lieutenant General Crishantha de Silva said that there was no decision to remove any Army camp in the North.

The body of an elderly man was found in a lodge at Kotahena last night, Police said.

A helicopter carrying Ministers Sajith Premadasa and Naveen Dissanayake and Deputy Minister Indika Bandaranyaka is reported to have landed in a vegetable farm at Katumana in Nuwara Eliya due to thick mist this morning.

A Scot is due in court in Sri Lanka over a nightclub brawl with the son of a former government minister in the country in 2014.

The Special commodity levy on a kilogram of imported potatoes has been increased by Rs. 5 with effect from today, the Finance Ministry said.

At least 247 people were killed after a 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck central Italy Wednesday, according to Italy's Civil Protection Department.

A husband and wife were arrested with more than 100 grams of heroin worth Rs.10 million in Borella this morning, police said.

Australia's Steve Smith has been rested to focus on next month's tour of South Africa leaving David Warner to lead the side for the remainder of the Sri Lanka series.

The Joint Opposition would today present a proposal in Parliament demanding immediate local government elections, which has been already delayed by one year and three months, the Joint Opposition said yesterday.

Twelve people were killed in an attack on a university in Kabul, the Afghan capital, a spokesman for the Chief of Kabul Police tells CNN.

A man's body believed to be that of the missing businessman, Mohamed Sakeem Sulaiman, was found on the Hemmathagama Road in Rukulagama in Mawanella yesterday evening, police sources said.