Six Indians on a dhow were arrested by the Sri Lanka Navy with 2,379kg of beedi leaves, in the north-western seas of Sri Lanka on Monday (29), th

Former Head of Daily Mirror Legal Desk veteran journalist M.J. M Zarook passed away last week bringing much sorrow to everyone who knew him. Zorro as he was popularly known began his career at Independent Newpapers Ltd and worked for the Sun news

The Opposition yesterday said the proposed amendments to the Monetary Law Act (MLA) were detrimental to the economy and that it would go to the Supreme Court if and when the draft bill was presented to parliament

Colombo High Court fixed the hearing of the case against Ex-Senior DIG Anura Senanayake for allegedly withholding evidence into the murder of Sri Lanka and Havelocks Sport Club ruggerite Wasim Thajud

Prominent elections monitoring NGO, Peoples Action for Free and Fair Elections (PAFFREL) yesterday urged the President, Prime Minister and the Speaker to take steps to amend the Provincial Councils Electio

Teachers from National Schools who have been in service for more than three years would be permitted to admit their children to the school they are serving in, Education Minister Akila Viraj Kariyawasam

Lending its legendary know-how and the knack for continued revival of indigenous Sri Lankan Martial Art, ‘Angampora’ which boasts a history of more than 5,000 years, established Sri Lanka’s state-of-the-art ‘Angampora’ village near the Iran

A programme to make naval personnel aware on Islamic Extremism was held at the main auditorium of SLNS Nipuna last week. This programme organised under the directives of Commander Southern Naval Area, Rear Admiral Kassapa Paul, ran through the them

Former Economic Development Minister and the National Organiser of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Basil Rajapaksa has said that all former members of provincial councils and those who are to be elected to the provincial councils in future wou

A massive fire had broken out at a brush factory in the Ingiriya Town yesterday morning, the Police said. They said the fire brigade teams that rushed to the scene later doused the fire.

The Members of the Central Committee of the JVP Wasantha Samarasinghe and Chandrika Adhikari are in Kathmandu in Nepal to participate in the 9th Asia – Pacific Regional Conference of Solidarity with Cuba.

The long drawn issue on increasing the salary of estate workers would be resolved during the first few days of next month, Minister of Hill Country New Villages, Infrastructure and Community Development, Palani Digambaram said. He stated that Prim

The Pepper market has been ruined as a result of a few unscrupulous businessmen taking cover under the same gazette that has been used by those who imported garbage from foreign countries to Sri Lanka, All Ceylon Customs Service Union (ACCSU) alleged

The Kalu Ganga project, the next huge reservoir of the Moragahakanda venture can be completed by next month and vested with the people, President Maithripala Sirisena said yesterday. The construction of Wayamba

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe seen inspecting the ‘Enterprise Sri Lanka’ programme which is designed to help the country’s SME sector. Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera was also present.

Nalini Sriharan, a life convict in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, was released from the jail in Vellore in Tamil Nadu yesterday for a month to attend her daughter’ wedding, NDTV reported.

The sale of liquor will be banned in Kalpitiya during the feast of St. Anne’s at Talawila during the first week of August on the orders of the Excise Commissioner General, the department said yesterday. As such alcoholic beverages will not be sold

The Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) to investigate corruption of the current government yesterday said that the evidence which were provided by MP Udaya Gammanpila against illegal land acquisition by Minister of Industry and Commerce Rishad

An RTI filed by the Daily Mirror has revealed that even the preliminary investigations into the assault of prisoners at Angunakolapelessa super prison in November, 2018 are yet to conclude and the Ministry of Justice has received only an interim repo

The Sri Lanka Navy had seized over 450 kilos of heroin from being smuggled into the country within last few months, Navy Spokesman Lieutenant Commander Isuru Sooriyabandara said. “The Sri Lanka Navy

The government cannot put behind the ‘Black July’ by handing out state sponsored freebies like pay hikes for public servants and pensioners, reducing bank interest rates, distributing tabs among school children, releasing low interest loans and g

An LTTE member, who was arrested in Germany over the assassination of Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar in 2005, had been charged by the German prosecutors over the murder, foreign news agencies reported yesterday. German prosecutors said yesterda

A close associate of notorious underworld figure and drug kingpin “Makandure Madush’ and Kanjipani Imran was arrested by the Colombo Crimes Division (CCD). Police said the 36-

The Examinations Department yesterday requested the 2019 G.C.E Advanced Level applicants to log on to their official website (https://doenets.lk/) to obtain their admission cards if they did not receive them yet by post. Its commissioner General Sana

The Centre for Environmental Justice (CEJ), a Colombo based public interest environmental organization, has instituted legal action in the Court of Appeal (CA Writ 303/2019) against the Central Environmental Authority

‘Kiren Sapiri Dayak’, the national programme aimed at providing a packet of liquid milk to every primary studentisland-wide, was inaugurated under the patronage of President Maithripala Sirisena yesterday (23). The programme launched under

Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) district and constituent organisers yesterday (23) vowed that if the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) ignored the SLFP’s strength and took an arbitrary decision to field their own candidate at the forthcoming Presid

The Power, Energy and Business Development Ministry is studying the possibility of using atomic energy for power generation, Minister Ravi Karunanayake said. Some countries are he

Another batch of S13 class power sets and a S11 Diesel Multiple-Unit (DMU) had been added to the Sri Lanka Railway’s fleet yesterday (23), the Transport Ministry said. They said the new rolling stock a

Approximately 20,000 metric tonnes of jet fuel could be pumped from ships after completing the installation of the new oil pipeline connecting the Colombo Port to the storage terminal of the Ceylon Petroleum Co