UN condemns conflicts in Sri Lanka
The United Nations in Sri Lanka condemned the recent conflicts which erupted in Sri Lanka, today. …
The United Nations in Sri Lanka condemned the recent conflicts which erupted in Sri Lanka, today. …
All government schools in Kandy administrative district will continue to be closed until further n…
President Maithripala Sirisena yesterday paid his last respects to the Chief Incumbent of Sambodhi Vi…
Ceylon Workers Congress Chairman and General Secretary Armugam Thondaman last evening started a Satyagraha…
The Police and Armed Forces on the ground have been granted with special powers to arrest individuals caug…
A group of about 18 Ministers and Muslim MPs left Parliament to Kandy by helicopter yesterday evening to o…
Muslim MPs representing the Government yesterday sat on the floor in the Well of Parliament urging the Gov…
A Cabinet Paper will be presented in order to exempt all health services from Value Added Tax (VAT), …
Special Envoy on Anti Personnel Mine Ban Convention Prince Mired Ra’ad Zeid Al-Hussein inspecting lan…
A team of investigators from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) was dispatched to Digana yes…
Cabinet decided to impose a State of Emergency for seven days taking stock of the current situation i…
President Maithripala Sirisena has declared a State of Emergency for one week with effect from mid-ni…
Nearly 62 percent of the people who died in traffic accidents and 65 percent of those who committed suicid…
The United States yesterday urged the government to take swift measures against perpetrators of sectarian …
Prince Mired Raad Zeid Al-Hussein of Jordan praised Sri Lanka for signing the Ottowa Convention on Anti-Pe…
The Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) has urged all Sri Lankans to remain calm and peaceful following the Digana incide…
All schools in the Kandy district will remain closed today too owing to the tense situation reported in th…
Walana Anti-Corruption Unit officials yesterday seized a stock of banned weed killers when it raided two s…
The Agriculture Ministry has taken several steps to ensure food security and national prosperity through v…
Price of a cement bag weighing 50 Kg has been increased by Rs.30.Accordingly, the revised price of a …
The Draft Bill for protection against enforced disappearances will be debated in Parliament tomorrow …
Managers will be appointed to all schools having a student population of over 1000 in future to facil…
Special Envoy of the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention Prince Mired Raad Zeid Al-Hussein said he hop…
Finance and Media Minister Mangala Samaraweera yesterday said that inciting racial violence must be m…
President Maithripala Sirisena has directed the security divisions and the IGP to conduct and imparti…
The Army was called in to control the tense situation in Digana yesterday as crowds pelted stones at …
All Army personnel have been restricted from posting any content in their Social Media accounts that …
The Government while condemning the recent incidents of violence and misinformation campaign targetin…
President Maithripala Sirisena was the chief guest at the appointment letter-issuing ceremony for new…
A British national died of heart failure, while descending the Sigiriya rock last Thursday (1), Sigiriya P…
All Government schools within the Kandy administrative district where a Police curfew was imposed yesterda…
Top-priority should be given to agricultural development activities, but the government has kept it at 4th…
A Police curfew was imposed in the Kandy Administrative district until 6 a.m. tomorrow, following …
A body of a 22-year-old woman was found washed ashore at the Kalu river bank in Kalutara North, la…
Three suspects who obtained a large sum of money by producing false lottery tickets as prize-winning ticke…
The funeral of Oswin Silva (82), past District Governor and past Council Chairman of Lions Internatio…
Four employees of the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) including two electrical superintendents have be…
Vavuniya Police have arrested nine persons in connection with the theft of more than 2800 liters of d…
The cremation of the Sambodhi Viharaya Chief Incumbent and founder of ‘The Buddhist’ TV channel Vener…
President Maithripala Sirisena visited the Sri Mangalarama Viharaya in Batticaloa and called on Vihar…
The law banning the sale of cigarettes within a distance of 100 metres around schools will be gazette…
The suspect in the killing of a 9-year-old boy at Iranawila, Chilaw, was arrested while hiding at a f…
The 139th ‘Battle of the Blues’ cricket encounter between Royal College, Colombo and S. Thomas’ Colle…
There has been serious lapses in the implementation of law and order during the recent unrest in Ampa…
In a hard hitting statement Finance and Media Minister Mangala Samaraweera yesterday said that the wo…
The Special Task force and the Navy in a joint operation nabbed 403 kg of Kerala cannabis valued at R…
Three police officers, a Sub Inspector and two constables attached to the Hikkaduwa Police were arres…
Bursting an artery in the brain caused the death of the 15-year-old schoolgirl of Gampola who died on Frid…
An underworld leader known as pas podda and two of his accomplices were arrested yesterday, in a raid…
Two groups of veterinary surgeons were deployed at the Yala National Park to treat three tuskers who …
Sri Lanka youth cap Lasith Croospulle scored his fourth century of the season and Ashan Fernando hit a sup…
Cabinet approval has been granted to purchase paddy for the Maha season and the paddy will be bought …
Income of the Yala and the Udawalawa sanctuaries have increased by several folds. The Yalan National …
A 19 year old youth was arrested by police after he cut the hair of a girl travelling in a bus last Thursd…
The Meteorology Department has predicted that wet weather will continue with showers or thundershower…
A SriLankan Airlines flight from London to Colombo was diverted last night after a passenger aboard fell i…
The Education Ministry is to commence interviews to recruit teacher-trainees for the National College…
Twenty two children allegedly abused by caretakers of an orphanage in the Rasnayakapura village in th…
A person who had broken a nest and taken 110 eggs of a bird called 'Batukesbewa', which is in dang…
Three youth were arrested by the Baddegama Police for allegedly robbing eight coconuts from a coconut esta…
A fifteen year school girl had died after fainting in her school in Atabage Udugama Pussellawa yesterday.S…
There is no “sterilization pill” invented in the world that could make a woman or man infertile by one int…
Police yesterday arrested an Army Sergeant Major in connection with the bus explosion in Kahagolla, D…
Tests carried out by the Government Analyst’s Department had revealed that 50 percent of the test samples …
Special Envoy on the Anti-Personnel Mine Ban Convention Prince Mired Ra’ad Zeid Al-Hussein will under…
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