Fifteen Senior Police officers including ten Deputy Inspectors General of Police (DIGs) and SSP Jaliya Senaratne have been

A complaint had been lodged over a stone pelting incident at the Colombo International School (CIS) building by an unkno

The main opposition Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) yesterday raised questions that it would be a serious matter if the Supreme Courts determination on the 20th Amendment to the constitution is leaked to the public. SJB Colo

A prominent personality in the Cuban revolution, the late Ernesto Che Guevara was commemorated today in front of the M

Ousted Prof. Saumya Liyanage should be reinstated to his position, political scientist and academic Prof. Jayadeva Uyangoda s

A MOU was signed yesterday between the National Youth Services Council and Wijeya Newspapers Sri Lanka to create and activate a countrywide campaign pertaining to Cyber Bullying and to also develop and create digital content that wi

Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana is to announce the Supreme Court determination on the 20th Amendment to the Constit

By Yohan Perera and Ajith Siriwardana India has no moral right to ask for the implementation of the 13th amendment to the Constitution, Local Government and Provincial Councils Minister Sarath Weerasekera told Parliament yesterday. Participating

The budget which will be presented to Parliament at the end of the year would take the form of a stimulus package aimed at reviewing the shattered economy, Minister of Trade Bandula Gunawardana said yesterday. Minister Gunawar

The proposed Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) will be signed only after studying and subjecting it into Sri Lankan la

While commending the release of Rishad Bathiudeen’s brother, Samagi Jana Balawegaya MP Eran Wickramaratne yesterday said Attorney-at-law Hejaaz Hizbullah, who is in remand custody should also be released if

The Directorate of Military Intelligence (DMI) in 2018 had informed at an Intelligence Review Meeting (IRM) that National Thowheed Jamaat (NTJ) Leader Zahran Hashim had fled to India in a boat and was assisted by former Minister Ri

Health Authorities in Kalutra had taken steps to place several people under house quarantine who had associated with a m

The latest publication of an eminent academic turned Diplomat Prof. (Dr) W.M.Karunadasa entitled “Mahinda Rajapaksa - Panas Vasaraka Deshapalanaye Punaravalokanayak” ( Mahinda Rajapaksa - A Review of 50 Years in Politics ) is to be launched at th

Certain MPs had mentioned in the House that a group of Indians had been brought to the Brandix Ltd. without going through the quarantine process with the intervention by its security head and urged the government to make a stateme

Death row inmate and former Kahawatta Pradeshiya Sabha Chairman Vajira Darshana de Silva has made a formal request to

The Former Commandant of the Police Special Task Force (STF) SDIG M.R. Latiff who earlier informed that he came to know about Zahran and National Thawheed Jamaat (NTJ) after the Easter Sunday terror attacks, yesterday co

Officers of the Maradana Police station carried out an awareness campaign at the Maradana Railway station last morning. Police advised the commuters how to wear face masks properly and how to follow h

The Education Ministry will today decide whether the Grade-5 scholarship examination and the GCE Advanced Level examination should be postponed, Subject Minister G.L. Peiris told Daily Mir

Former State Minister of Postal Services and Professional Development of Journalists, S. Viyalanderan, was sworn in as the State Minister of Backward Rural Areas Development, Domestic Animal Husbandry and Small Economic Crop Promotion. The Preside

Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena yesterday emphasised the need for all Parliamentarians to comply with health guidelines given the COVID-19 pandemic prevailing in the country. He stated th

All 101 PCR tests conducted on the students and teachers of the Divulapitiya School have returned negative for COVID-19, Public Health Inspectors Union of Sri Lanka (PHIUSL) Secretary M. Bala

Nearly 6,063 child abuse cases were reported within the first ten months of this year, Education Minister G.L. Peiris informed Parliament yesterday.

Sri Lanka expects to achieve a 1% GDP growth in 2020 despite the negative forecasts by certain global financial agencies and the downgrading of Sri Lanka’s credit rating by the Moody’s Investors Service, Mon

Minister of Industries Wimal Weerawansa and the Industrial Development Board are to take initiatives to provide bamboo reeds for the manufacturing of incense sticks which is said to be scarce,

The “Pahimpath Abhisheka Mangalya” the debut of female students of the “ Dioyani” Rangayathana school of dancing and theatre, Panadura will be performed at the Galgoda Sri Maha Vihara temple in Panadura on Thursday morning with the blessings

Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa offered floral tribute in a ceremony held at Temple Trees on the occasion of the birth anniversary of Mahathma Gandhi on Friday. Deputy High Commissioner of

Police and land powers should not be devolved to the provinces as they are not state governments as in the case of other countries, Former Governor of Western Province Hemakumara Nanayak

Initiatives are to be taken to simplify the mechanism to provide micro finance loans and to facilitate money lending, State Minister of Samurdhi, Household Economy, Micro Finance, Shehan Semasinghe said.

The Sri Lanka Customs had seized more than 300 luxury vehicles worth over Rs.200 million which were imported illegally to the country during the COVID-19 pandemic period, Customs Media spokesman and Deputy Director Sunil Jayarathne said. He told Dai