The Government will change the name, “Port City” to “Financial City” to underline the fact that China would not be given outright ownership to the block of land, Telecommunications and Digital Infrastructure Minister Harin Fer

Neither the Sri Lanka Freedom Party Central Committee (SLFP CC) nor the Executive Committee had approved the extension of the agreement entered into with the United National Party (UNP) for five years, SLFP MPs of the joint opposition (JO) said today

A priest has been killed in an attack by two armed men at his church near Rouen in northern France, police and French media have said.

Colombo Chief Magistrate allowed the special panel of Colombo National Hospital doctors who conducted an inquiry into the death of Ven. Maduluwawe Sobitha Thera to question the doctors who treated the Thera in Sri Lanka.

A tense situation during the monthly meeting of the North-Central Provincial Council (NCPC) today resulted in the meeting being adjourned till August 9.

Heavy traffic was reported along the Lotus Road in Colombo because of a protest march carrying out by a group of unemployed graduates towards the Finance Ministry building demanding employment opportunities.  

A Bangladeshi national trying to smuggle in 1.151 Kg of gold was arrested at the Bandaranaike International Airport by Customs officials today.

The Colombo High Court today allowed the prosecution of the Nadarajah Raviraj assassination to proceed with evidence despite the absence of three missing suspects under the section 241 of the Criminal Procedure Code.

The body of a teenager was recovered from a garden well at Kobeytuduwa in Batapola off Ambalangoda last night, Police said.

Former Sri Lanka cricket captain Kumar Sangakkara said that spin legend Muttiah Muralitharan doesn't have to defend himself as ‘Murali is a great son of Sri Lanka’.

Former Sri Lanka cricket captain Mahela Jayawardane expressed his disappointment over the comment by the Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) on spin legend Muttiah Muralitharan.

Five police officers attached to the Badulla police station were hospitalized after a car they were travelling from Wellawaya to Badulla crashed into a jack tree at Pinarawa in Badulla on the Badulla-Bandarawela main Road early this morning.

The protest launched by the Collective of Retired or Disabled Military and Police Personnel urging the President to intervene in the proposed pension scheme, continued for the second day today outside the Fort Railway Station.

President Maithripala Sirisena , in a meeting last night, requested Sri Lanka Freedom Party( SLFP) MPs sitting in the Joint Opposition to refrain from forming any new political fronts and acting in a manner detrimental to the interests of the party.

Sri Lanka’s cricket board lodged a complaint Monday with the visiting Australians after their bowling consultant and local legend Muttiah Muralitharan was involved in a bust-up with his former colleagues.

Sri Lanka’s record-breaking spinner Muttiah Muralitharan launched a blistering attack Monday on his former bosses after they complained about his behaviour in his new role as a mentor to Australia.

The right status and respect deserved for Buddhism should remain intact in the constitution, Colombo's Archbishop Rt. Rev. Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith said today.

President Maithripala Sirisena today said whatever setbacks, whatever road blocks were thrown in its way, the consensual government would run its full term of five years to fulfil its pledges given in August 2015.

The NGO Secretariat has sent out a circular to relevant NGOs calling for data, which is to be sent in by July 29, a statement from the Prime Minister’s office said today.

The former Chairman of the Development Lotteries Board Chandrawansha Pathiraja was today released on bail by Colombo Chief Magistrate Gihan Pilapitiya for the three cases filed by the Bribery Commission under corruption allegations for causing a Rs.

The Collective of Retired or Disabled Military and Police Personnel staged a protest march earlier today urging the President to intervene in the proposed pension scheme. They sat on the road outside the Fort Railway Station pledging to leave only af

Power and Renewable Energy Deputy Minister Ajith P. Perera said the ‘porondam’ (compatibility) chart of President Maithiripala Sirisena and Premier Ranil Wickremesinghe were fully agreeable and that the marriage between the two would cont

The eighth suspect, Yashmin Ilhami Mohammad, of the alleged F&G fraud case, was today released on bail by the Colombo Chief Magistrate.

More than two days since an Indian Air Force’s AN-32 aircraft (K-2743) with 29 persons on board went missing from the radars, no clue could be obtained to its location.

The Supreme Court Bench comprising Chief Justice K. Sripavan and Justices Priyasath Dep and Buwenaka Aluvihara today fixed for August 3 the proceedings in the case where UPFA MP Namal Rajapaksa is charged with contempt of the Bribery Commission.