The UNP Working Committee will meet today to discuss the new Leader and the office bearers, Party General Secreta

The Speaker should reverse his decision to allow SLPP MP Premalal Jayasekara who has been subjected to a death se

Union of Unemployed Higher National Diploma Holders staged a protest in Colombo yesterday demanding the government to solve their unemployment issue.

The Sri Lankan Embassy and Permanent Mission in Vienna, Austria together with the Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau organised ‘Flavours of Sri Lanka’, a promotional event to promoting Sri Lanka as a favoured destination at the prestigious Welt M

Sri Lanka’s first-ever Maritime Museum to be opened in Kalpitiya by mid next year after the completion of skeleton structures of various marine animals, Senior Official of the Wildlife Conservation

State Minister of Regional Cooperation Tharaka Balasuriya said the Sri Lankan government welcomes investments from China and will ensure that such investments are well protected, according t

The Land Commissioner General’s Department, in an Extraordinary Gazette notification, yesterday requested the people to make applications in order to consider giving away clear titles for their land

Chairman of the PCoI yesterday ordered the Commission’s Secretary to take legal action through the Court of Appeal against the senior official of the All Ceylon Jamiyyathul Ulama (ACJU) and the Counsel who represented the particular individual who

The Magistrate made this direction to the CID during the inquiry into cheating of two businessmen for Rs.170 million by promising to sell 25 kilos of gold alleged to have been kept in the vaults of

Senior journalist Zacki Jabbar of The Island newspaper was found dead at his residence in Pelawatta, Battaramulla on Wednesday night, police said. It was reporte

The road leading to Enderamulla from Ragama through Kurukulawa in Gampaha is seen flooded due to the torrential rains last morning.

President instructs officials to supply fertiliser without shortage for Maha season Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Economic Revival Basil Rajapaksa said, there will be a possibility of supplying several major types of fertiliser to the

The Central Environmental Authority (CEA) in collaboration with the Department of Posts has initiated a programme to collect Electronic waste (E-waste) through post offices. Postmaster

The Ratnapura District Development Committee has decided to implement the Dry Dam concept to prevent the flood threat caused by the overflowing of the Kaluganga every year. The committee met at the Ratnapura District Secretariat under the Co- Chairma

‘Divimaga Visithuru’, a biography on veteran labour leader Alexander Ekanayake Gunasinha alias A. E. Gunasinha, authored by media analyst Ananda Wickramarachchi, was presented to former Speaker Karu Jayasuriya to mark the 53rd Death Anniversary o

The SLFP politburo met on Tuesday night and was chaired by former President Maithripala Sirisena at his official residence at Mahagamasekara Mawatha, Colombo 7, has decided to appoint an expert committee to look into the proposed 20th Amendment to th

Certain point of time, he wondered whether they were talking about intelligence acitivities during weekly intelligence review meetings

The Theology Department of the Aquinas College of Higher Studies, Colombo 8, will be conducting a series of courses on various topics every Thursday from September 17, 2020 from 4.00 pm to 6.00

The showery condition over the Western, Sabaragamuwa, Central and North-western provinces of the island, is expected to continue further accompanied by gusty winds, the Department of Meteorology forec

Three police officers attached to the Parliament Police Unit have been transferred after they tried to check a parcel being brought in to the parliament premises by a government MP, Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) MP Nalin Bandara said yesterday. He t

Justice Minister Mohamed Ali Sabry met US Ambassador Alaina B Teplitz and discussed the backlog of court cases and overcrowding of prisons in the country, the Justice Ministry said. The Ambass

The Movement for 19+ and opposition MPs yesterday took an oath near the statue of late Venerable Maduluwawe Sobitha Thera to safeguard the 19th Amendment to the constitution which curtailed the powers of Executive President and to defeat the move to

The STF arrested a 34-year-old man at Palaviya in Kalpitiya yesterday on charges of attempting to smuggle out of the country some 10 kg of gold which were concealed under the seat of the car he

At least 1.2 million youths and adults in the country’s population still remain illiterate, Education Minister Prof. G.L. Pieris said. He said the projects that were implemented to increase the literacy should be expanded. “School-

Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardene named 18 members for the Committee on High Posts in Parliament yesterday. They inclu

Ratnapura District MP Premalal Jayasekara said yesterday he was convicted on false charges levelled against him by the yahapalana government to take political revenge from him. In his maiden

The government has appointed a Cabinet Sub-Committee on Cost of Living (CoL) in order to keep prices of essential commodities stable and ensure a steady supply of them, Plantation Industries Minister Ramesh Pathirana said. The proposed Cabinet Sub C

The number of students admitted to medical faculties of the universities has been increased by 350 for the first time in the history, Education Minister Prof. G.L. Pieris said during a discussion held at

A web service would be introduced to certify the authenticity of the particulars of the National Identity Card (NIC) in the near future, the Department for Registration of Persons (DRP) yesterday said

Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) Leader, MP Rauff Hakeem had requested former president Maithripala Sirisena and former prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe to create a separate administrative district for Tamil-speaking people in the Eastern Province