Pohottuwa candidate arrested over sand mining racket
Officers of the Peliyagoda Police Crimes Division uncovered a long-standing sand mining racket carrie…
Officers of the Peliyagoda Police Crimes Division uncovered a long-standing sand mining racket carrie…
Three youths died and a woman sustained minor injuries when two motor bikes collided at Udubaddawa on…
The renovated Batticaloa Airport was opened for civilian air traffic yesterday enabling direct air tr…
No decision has been taken to increase fuel prices in CEYPETCO fuel stations, Ceylon Petroleum Corpor…
The No-Confidence Motion (NCM) tabled against Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe will be a flop sinc…
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe participated in a special religious ceremony held at Temple Trees…
Pakistani President Mamnoon Hussain said that President Maithripala Sirisena’s visit to Pakistan will…
The demand for electricity surged to a whopping 2500 MW on Friday (23) extending to the weekend makin…
Colombo Municipal Council's Deputy Mayor M.T. Iqbal assumed duties at the CMC office. Iqbal has s…
Buddhasasana Minister Gamini Jayawickrama Perera said the State Vesak Festival-2018 would be held at the h…
The Ceylon Teachers’ Union has demanded that the Colombo Zonal Education office immediately withdraw a cir…
A person aged 46 had been shot and killed last evening by an unidentified gunman at Chandrika Kumaratunga …
A person who cheated several women through occult and abused them was arrested by the Moneragala Poli…
Noted drug dealer Nuwan Udaya Gunathilaka (39) alias “Kudu Nuwan,” had been arrested by the Special T…
A man died on the spot after the three-wheeler he was driving veered off the Paragammana - Atugoda road an…
A ceremony to declare the Hiniduma Calvary church as a shrine under the Pilgrimage Ordinance Act will…
A rarely spotted migrant bird known as the rock thrush (Tirasiya) was seen at the Udawalawe National …
Panadura Provincial High Court Judge Damith Thotawatta acquitted the two accused involved in the Panadura …
A four and a half year child died as a result of an accident that occurred at Weeerawila junction yesterda…
Eheliyagoda Sasanarakshaka Bala Mandalaya Secretary and Thoranakada Sri Pushparamaya Maha Viharaya Ch…
The body of a suspect who had drowned in the Mahaweli river, while escaping police following the bust…
The Kotahena Police division was able to arrest a suspect carrying 15,431 bottles of wine and champag…
President Maithripala Sirisena was the Guest of Honour at the Pakistan National Day celebrations held…
Tourism Development and Christian Affairs Minister John Amaratunga yesterday blamed the new electoral…
National Policies and Economic Affairs State Minister Dr. Harsha de Silva severely criticised the Sec…
The motion to increase salaries of the Chief Justice and Supreme Court and Appeal Court justices was …
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe celebrates his 69th birthday today (24). A series of events to ma…
Sri Lanka concluded the 37th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council with its head held hi…
"The National Youth Summit (NYS 2018) will push a collective advocacy agenda on an inclusive youth po…
Sudath Chandresekara, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s Special Assistant tendered his resigna…
Chandrarathna Pallegama, Director General of Civil Security Department was appointed as the new Ch…
A motorcyclist died and three others sustained injuries after colliding with another motorcycle in…
The 66th death anniversary commemoration of Sri Lanka’s first Prime Minister Rt. Hon D.S. Senanayake …
A total of 13,345 dengue cases and over ten dengue deaths had been reported up March 21, the Epidemio…
The Police Narcotics Bureau (PNB) yesterday arrested two suspects with a parcel of cocaine weighing over 2…
The Japanese embassy in Colombo in a letter to the Daily News clarified the news item titled “Japanese env…
A series of events centering Buddhist temples and other places of worship will be held around the country …
A trawler on its maiden voyage had caught fire in the seas off Hikkaduwa. The trawler had set sail on its…
The nine year old school girl who won back her right to schooling after being expelled from a school in Ga…
The highest number of convictions related to corruption cases was recorded last year with 57 convicti…
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe said there is a global shift of power to Asia a…
Three youth who abused a married woman, while her husband was on night duty, was arrested in Girandurukott…
A man who pleaded guilty to charges of cultivating cannabis, was imposed a fine of Rs. 10,000 by Matara Ch…
A 35-year-old mother and her five-year-old daughter were killed when the three-wheeler in which they were …
Some top-level politicians are involved in the fragmentation of coconut lands in the North Western Pr…
Mundalama police succeeded in apprehending three suspects who were involved in smuggling over two kil…
In 2012, there were 180 deaths from electrocution, most of them owing to poor safety and quality of wiring…
The Government took immediate action to control the recent communal unrest in Kandy and to restore no…
Japanese Ambassador to Sri Lanka Kenichi Suganuma said yesterday that his government was not of the o…
President Maithripala Sirisena will undertake a three day official visit to Pakistan from March 22 to…
As investigations into the riots in Kandy continue, co-cabinet spokesperson Minister Rajitha Senaratn…
The Borella Police Crimes Division had arrested two underworld gangsters Chaminda Lasantha alias Chula Was…
Police on Tuesday arrested a suspect with 600 tablets of the prescription drug Tramadol in Kalpitiya. The…
The Sri Lankan Embassy in Russia held a reception to celebrate the 70th Independence Day, at the Lott…
The relevant institutions will work according to the Constitution and law of the country when implementing…
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