The liquor stores island-wide will be closed on December 25, Commissioner General of Excise Department confirmed.

Eight including three teachers and five students were hospitalized after a lab experiment went wrong at a school in Pussellawa.

Rejecting the claim made by CEB Engineers Union President that there would be 10-hour-power cuts next year, Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekera said today that legal action will be taken against the said TU over the false statement.

There should be a definite increase in electricity tariffs beginning from January in order to purchase the required coal shipments for the month, Power and Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekera said.

Jacqueline Fernandez appeared at Delhi’s Patiala House Court in connection with the conman Sukesh Chandrashekhar case.

President Ranil Wickremesinghe nor the government, have any intention whatsoever to differ the Local Government (LG) polls and as such it is up to the Election Commission (EC) to hold a free and fair election, Cabinet Spokesman Minister Dr. Bandula G

Sri Lankan bank has opened vostro account in India with State Bank of India to conduct bilateral trade in Indian rupee, Indian High Commission in Sri Lanka said.

Underworld gangster Mohommad Najim Mohommad Imran alias Kanjipani Imran who was in remand prison was released on bail by Colombo Additional Magistrate Harshana Kekunawela today.

The Treasury should state whether it is possible to allocate the ten billion rupees needed for local government elections, UNP’s Navin Dissanayake said today.

The cabinet of ministers approved the proposal presented by the Minister of Foreign Affairs to establish the proposed “office for the affairs of Sri Lankans living abroad” under the Presidential Secretariat.

The Cabinet of Ministers has granted approval to the proposal furnished by the Minister of Public Security to take necessary steps to introduce three new VISA categories for Colombo Port City.

The second reading vote of the budget 2023 will be taken up at 5pm today

President Wickremesinghe invited the Scout Movement to join the environment-related programmes

An altercation between two individuals during a drinking party at Nagawila in Pallama on Sunday evening (20) had resulted in one of them being stabbed to death with an iron spike. A group of four individuals had felled trees in a private land in N

The 113th Annual General Meeting of Government Officers Benefit Association (G.O.B.A) was held recently at the Auditorium of Royal College, Colombo. Mr. Nihal Francisco was elected as the President of G.O.B.A. for the next year. D.S.P. Dunusinghe and

Air tickets were symbolically handed over to young workers through the IRO College of Education technical intern recruitment of Sri Lankan workers in Japan. The IRO institute has made arrangements to bring 200 workers under the Industrial

A stock of 6.280kilos of Kerala Ganja smuggled from India by sea was seized by the Sri Lanka Navy during a search operation in Urumalai beach in Mannar.

The clash broke out at 2.45 am yesterday and the Police said some sharp weapons were used for the attack

The Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) said it is gravely concerned as to the manner in which the present economic crisis and the

Some political leaders have got disturbed and are asking for the premiership and the government as negotiations with do

Practical issues had arisen to convene even Parliament due to the fuel crisis, where MPs find it difficult to travel f

Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) MP Patali Champika Ranawaka who fell out with the party leadership and decided to sit independently in Parliament teamed up with a team of MPs from Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) in meetin

A Nigerian national wanted for two Court cases in Colombo and who had tried to flee the country to Cambodia via Malaysia and Singapore with a forged Seychelles passport was nabbed by the immigration officials at the Banda

It is essential to go for any kind of election which will reflect the people’s mandate, so that Sri Lanka could get more internati

US President Joe Biden at the G7 Summit yesterday, announced $20 million in additional assistance to strengthen food security in Sri Lanka, US embassy in Colombo said. It als

Former MP M .M .Zuhair, who also served in ambassadorial posts in some countries in the Middle East, asked as to why Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe had not directly broached Sri Lanka’s humanitarian crisis with the Saud

Education Ministry requested the PUCSL to avoid power cuts between 7 a.m. to noon to accommodate online education

A tense atmosphere prevailed near a filling station in Vishwamadu in Kilinochchi on Saturday night (18) due to a clash between the army and people waiting for fuel. It is alleged that the unruly situation had erupted when a group of

The Army said that Saturday’s incident at a fuel station in Vishwamadu was a deliberate attempt by some suspicious elements to sabotage the goodwill and the cooperation that prevails between members of the Security Forces a

A 13 year old child was injured when wildlife officers on duty at Katukeliyawa on Saturday night(18) opened fire at a tipper lorry t