Fort Magistrate Thilina Gamage today issued an order preventing 27 individuals including General Secretary of Ceylon Teachers Union Joseph Stalin and Frontline Socialist Party activist Duminda Nawagamuwa from obstructing roads towards Galle Face whil

Former Presidential advisor Ashu Marasinghe who resigned from his post recently has been re-appointed to the position by President Ranil Wickremesinghe, the Daily Mirror learns.

Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) and Leader of Opposition Sajith Premadasa have decided to boycott 75th Independence Day celebrations to be held at Galle Face tomorrow.

US President Joe Biden has conveyed his best wishes to President Ranil Wickremesinghe and the people of Sri Lanka for the 75th Anniversary of Independence, President’s Media Division (PMD) said.

Several Roads in Colombo will be closed in view of the cultural show at the Independence Square from 3 pm this afternoon until the show is concluded, Police said.

Responding to the US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland’s claim that the support extended by China to Sri Lanka for getting IMF debt relief is not enough, China’s Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning said that the US

Archbishop Emeritus Oswald Gomis passed away at the age of 90 during early hours today while being treated at a private hospital.

The Inter-University Students Federation (IUSF) Convener Wasantha Mudalige alleged that the police had a plan to kill him while he was in police custody.

The vehicle belonging to the businessman whose body was found in the swimming pool of his three-storied building at Pelawatta yesterday was recovered from a house in Negombo, Police said.

Former MP Sujeewa Senasinghe has been given the task of heading the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) campaign for the local government election. L

Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) member Sumedha Arunashantha was elected as the mayor of Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) led Kurunegala Municipal Council with majority votes at a vote taken today.

Some 108 acres of land in the North, which was under the custody of security forces, will be released and distributed among 197 families tomorrow on the directions of President Ranil Wickremesinghe, the President’s Media Division (PMD) said.

The Mahanayake Theras of the three Chapters has urged President Ranil Wickremesinghe not to implement the 13th Amendment to the Constitution which would lead to issues of independence, territorial integrity and national security.

The United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and Norway have urged Sri Lanka to repeal the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) and decriminalize same-sex relationships by repealing sections 365 and 365A of the Penal Code.

Convener of Inter-University Students’ Federation (IUSF) Wasantha Mudalige was today released on bail by Colombo Fort Magistrate Thilana Gamage in connection with three more cases.

Some 46 people die of cancer every day in Sri Lanka out of the 105 cancer patients who are detected daily, the National Cancer Control Unit (NCCU) Director Dr. Ishani Fernando said today.

The Catholic Church would have forgiven former President Maithripala Sirisena if he had accepted his shortcoming and resigned the day after the Easter Sunday bomb attacks, a spokesman for the church said today.

Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to India, Milinda Moragoda met with the External Affairs Minister of India Dr. S. Jaishankar today (31) at the Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi to review the current status of the relations between Sri Lanka a

While reiterating its continuous support to Sri Lanka for the implementation of the IMF programme, the United States however said yesterday that all creditors must agree to fair and equitable treatment as then only the IMF can move forward.

U.S. Under-Secretary for Political Affairs, Victoria Nuland, has pledged the US Government’s support for Sri Lanka’s ongoing recovery efforts, President’s Media Division(PMD) said.

Steps were being taken to reduce the number of public sector employees in all government institutions and a self-retirement mechanism would be introduced for that effect, Cabinet Spokesman Bandula Gunawradena said today.

Sri Lanka’s National Report under the 4th Cycle of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) would come up for consideration by the UN Working Group on UPR on February 1, 2023, during its 42nd Session to be held in Geneva, Ministry of Foreign Affairs sai

MP Vasudeva Nanayakkara charged that the 13th Amendment to the Constitution is in spotlight once again due to the impending visit of the United States Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland to Sri Lanka.

The Catholic Church in Sri Lanka will not accept the apology tendered by former President Maithripala Sirisena on the shortcomings in preventing the Easter Sunday bomb attacks, National Director Communications Archdiocese of Colombo Fr. Jude Chryshan

President Ranil Wickremesinghe, in a note to the Cabinet, has stressed that public officers should refrain from obtaining goods and services on credit basis, and any officer who violates this will be held personally responsible for such expenditure.

The notice to commence Local Government election process was handed over to the Government Printers today by the returning officers of relevant districts to be published in a gazette notification.

An explosion took place at a mosque in the northwestern city of Peshawar in Pakistan on Monday, and at least 90 people were wounded, a local police official told Reuters.

The case against Colombo district former Parliamentarian Hirunika Premachandra, for her alleged involvement in the abduction of a youth using a Defender, was today fixed for February 28 by Colombo High Court.

Discussions are in progress to launch ’’Southern Odyssey’’ luxury tourist train to facilitate tourists visiting the down south.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) had not officially informed the Government of any issue about the approval of funding to Sri Lanka due to China’s moratorium being insufficient, State Minister of Finance Ranjith Siyambalapitiya said today.