President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in his Poson Poya Day Message said the greatest tribute we can pay to Arahat Mahinda would be to celebrate this season of Poson by viewing the life in a pragmatic manner. President

The two suspects, taken into custody when transporting a stock of one and half kilos of heroin, were produced before Minuwang

Even though the number of COVID-19 cases reported within the Navy are relatively high, all such cases are being reported from quarantine centres, the Navy said yesterday. Navy S

UN Human Rights High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet has expressed concern over alleged incidents of clampdown on freedom of expression including arrests of personnel for expressing discontent over COVID-19 situation

Police who were conducting investigations to trace the whereabouts of a 23 year old young woman who had gone missing recovered her skeletal remains , fragments of her clothes and her bag containing personal documents from a jungle in

Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) stressed the need for the new Parliament to meet to discuss national security of

The outgoing Bangladeshi High Commissioner, on behalf of Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, has extended an invitation for Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa to visit Bangladesh at a convenient date in the future, the Prime Minister’s Off

While saying that the 19th Amendmment to the Constitution brings good outcomes as well as bad outcomes, former President

An extraordinary gazette was issued under the proclamation by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa announcing the establishment of a 13-member Presidential Task Force (PTF) to build a Secure Country, Disciplined, Virtuous and Lawful S

In the aftermath of the Supreme Court ruling on Tuesday, the Elections Commission (EC) yesterday met with the Chairman Mahinda Deshapriya at the chair to take a final decision on the day of polling for the much delayed Parliamentary p

A special three-day dengue prevention programme will be launched in the City by the Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) and the Police Environmental Protection Division from today to the (6) to coincide with the islandwide curfew, Ma

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Sri Lanka has handed over 10,000 surgical masks and 30 Infrared thermometers to the Disaster Management Centre (DMC) to be distributed to relief centres, search and rescue teams

An organised group of gangsters who entered the historic Sevanagala Rajamaha Vihara during the curfew on Sunday had thr

Former livestock manager who had served in several government farms specialized in livestock and animal production, Guna

Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa was sworn in as the Minister of Social Empowerment and Estate Infrastructure Development, the portfolio previously held by late Minister Arumugam Thondaman. The Pri

A total of 30 PCR tests were conducted at the Dematagoda shopping complex yesterday by the health officials to test COVID-1

“The Law for the Conservation of Forests and Wildlife in Sri Lanka” a book written in Sinhala by Assistant Conservator of Forests Lalith Gamage has been translated into English by Retired Additional Secretary to the Ministry of De

A resolution calling the Central Government to reduce fuel prices moved by the JVP at the Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) sessions on Friday, May 29 was unanimously approved by all parties representing the council. Opposition SLPP members, UPFA and

Sri Lanka CERT|CC has confirmed that a couple of websites in Sri Lanka have been defaced by a group of activists and that no data breach has occurred in this attempt to deface the websites. Chief Executive Officer of the Sri Lanka CERT|CC Lal Dias

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said external funding must be “development centric” by all aspects of such facilities because the timeline to reach normalcy in the country will be longer. President Rajapaksa said this while addressing the virtual

UNP former MP Ruwan Wijewardene and fellow ex-MP Ashu Marasinghe facing a media conference where the former rev

All passengers arriving at the at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) would be subjected to the Polym

The First special Air India flight AI 0276 carrying 176 Indian nationals who were stranded in Sri Lanka took off from Colombo

Dialog Axiata PLC has partnered with the Ministry of Education to provide an opportunity for children to receive their education

School children in low income families will get a food pack worth Rs. 965 when schools reopen early next month to supplement their mid-day meal they lost during the long holiday in the aftermath of the COVID 19 viral infection, Cabinet sp

After a three-month lapse, the Colombo Municipal Council ( CMC) will hold a session in Town Hall today observing social di

An employee in the Dambulla Economic Centre who purchased a stock of ripe bananas for Rs.30,000 fed the wild elephants and monkeys in the Digampathana forest reserve. The go

Former Health Minister Rajitha Senaratne, who was arrested in connection with the controversial ‘White Van Press Conference’, was remanded till June 10 by Colombo Chief Magistrate. When the cas

In his condolence message on Minister Arumugam Thondaman, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa yesterday said Minister Thondaman’s inspirational presence and political sagacity will be deeply missed by his people. “I was de

The 36 Sri Lankan workers who were stranded at the Bucharest Airport in Romania on May 24 have received new employment opportunities with the intervention of the Romanian Labour Minister Violeta Alexandru, the Foreign Affairs Ministry said.