Waging a war with the rising Dengue and Chikungunya cases in Colombo alone, a dozen of areas are to be fumigated under the Mosquito Eradication Programme, while the exact date is yet to be decided, a high-ranking Public Health Inspector (PHI), told t

Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) consider Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) as one of its rival parties wherever it is contesting alone under the tree symbol, its Leader Rauff Hakeem had said, creating some kind of rumpus in the political circles.

Security in and around Ruwanweliseya in Anuradhapura was beefed up yesterday afternoon on an anonymous call that an individual was preparing to launch a bomb attack.

Colonel Nalin Herath, Director General of the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), recently concluded a significant visit to Nepal, where he engaged with scholars, policymakers, and thought leaders on pressing regional issues, including cl

The Sri Lankan community in Kenya came together in joyous celebration yesterday at the Nairobi Sikh Club, marking the Sinhala and Tamil New Year in a vibrant and culturally rich gathering organised by the Sri Lankan Association of Kenya.

A student of Gampaha Bandaranaike Maha Vidyalaya Ransara Kumarage is the first in the island in the Mathematics stream at the GCE (Advanced Level ) Examination this year,.

A system where local government bodies could get involved with the police and security forces will be an effective move to maintain law and order, Leader of Opposition Sajith Premadasa said over the weekend.

More than 800 acres of paddy on the verge of harvest has been endangered with crop devastation due to the flood threat in Mahawewa.

A woman under arrest warrant for evading court was arrested by the Ratnapura police while she was functioning as a doctor. The Ratnapura Division Crime Investigation Unit had carried out the raid on a house in Ratnapura town on information from the p

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake said that an international cricket stadium would be constructed in the north.

A student from the Kotalawala Defence Univerisity had fallen down the Galle Rampart and died. The victim Thawalama Gamage Janith Chandrapala (21) was a resident of Hapugala in Wakwella.

The Acting Inspector General of Police has appointed four officers, including an Assistant Superintendent of Police from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), to assist the three-member committee investigating suspended Inspector General of Po

All Island Buddha Sasana Council of Sri Lanka (AIBSCSL) donated Rs.45 million for the benefit of people in Myanmar affected by the recent earthquake, according to a statement signed by its General Secretary Ven. Mugunuwela

Kandy Girls High School OGA (Colombo Branch) held the Annual General Meeting on 22nd March 2025 at Mandarina Hotel , Colombo 3. Pictured here are the new committee members. Pic by Pradeep Dilrukshana

Highlighting that the recent spate of killings is clear evidence that Public Security Minister Ananda Wijepala has failed in his duties to maintain law and order, Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) MP Dayasiri Jayasekera called for the

Proper planning with regard to the exposition of the sacred tooth relic in Kandy would have avoided havoc experienced by the devotees and littering while effective planning would have also saved the lives of four devotees

Another suspect wanted in connection with the triple murder on February 18, at Middeniya was arrested in the early hours of last morning at Katunayake International Airport.

The Catholic Church in Sri Lanka does not have much to say about the conclusion which the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) that Zahran Hashim was the master mind behind the bomb attacks on Easter Sunday 2019 as it

Sri Lanka and the United States agreed to continue discussions on reciprocal tariff with the objective of finalising a bilateral trade agreement between the two countries, the President’s Media Division (PMD) said.

A consignment of mobile phones and Tab computers valued more than Rs.30milllion had been left unclaimed at the Katunayake Duty free Shopping Complex in the early hours of last morning.

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) yesterday informed the Colombo Chief Magistrate’s Court that it is closely analyzing telephone records and financial transactions as part of ongoing investigations into the alleged Ella

The Colombo High Court yesterday sentenced a man to death for the chilling murder of a woman whose body was found concealed in a travel bag—an incident that sent shockwaves across the country back in 2015.

Sri Lanka Customs making yet another crucial detection in its combat against drug trafficking throughout the island arrested an Indian national returning from Thailand with Cannabis variety ‘Kush’ worth over Rs.53 million yesterday.

The Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) has confirmed that the primary cause of the nationwide power outage on February 9, 2025, was low system stability, technically referred to as low ‘system inertia’, resulting from an exceptionally high contributi

The body of 25-year-old Nimesh Sathsara of Migahakiula, who is suspected to have died due to a police assault, was exhumed yesterday in the presence of Badulla Magistrate Nujith De Silva.

Thousands of devotees thronged Kandy for the sixth consecutive day to venerate and pay their respects to the Sacred Tooth Relic.

In response to the appointment of Senior Superintendent of Police Shani Abeysekara to the committee investigating the Presidential Commission of Inquiry report on the Easter Sunday terrorist attacks,

A person died yesterday due to a suspected heart attack while waiting for several days in a queue for the Sacred Tooth Relic exposition in Kandy at the Sri Dalada Maligawa, the Kandy police said.

Several documents linked to Sri Lanka have been inscribed on UNESCO’s Memory of the World Register.

The government will present in Parliament all seven memoranda of understanding signed with India recently and that it will take some time as consent of both parties are needed to reveal some of the information, Cabinet Spokesman Dr.