Animal rights activists yesterday accused the Wildlife Ministry Secretary and Wildlife Conservation Department (WCD) Director General of being directly involved in providing a legal standing to the baby elephants that are smuggled out of national

Colombo High Court Trial-at-Bar Judges Lalith Jayasuriya and Leon Seneviratne laid by the trial against former DIG Vaas Gunawardena,...

The Jathika Hela Urumaya(JHU), an ally of the government, is to present a set of proposals for the forward march of the country at its annual convention scheduled for Sunday (19), party sources said.

The main opposition UNP yesterday charged that the government had adopted a fraudulent approach of hiding the borrowings made by various state institutions from the 2015 budget.

The Supreme Court yesterday (15) issued an order to the IGP to interdict forthwith two officers attached to the Kottawa police station for humiliation caused to...

A Garuda Indonesian flight, carrying 375 passengers including Hajj pilgrims from Saudi Arabia to Indonesia, had made a forced landing at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) Katunayake on Tuesday night due to a technical error, Airport off

The Provincial Council system, in the absence of a sustainable political settlement, was mere hollow structure devoid of authority, the Chief Minister of the Northern Province C.V. Wigneswaran said in a letter to President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Tue

The Australian Federal Government has said it acted lawfully when detaining 157 asylum seekers on board a Customs boat for a month, telling the Canberra High Court that India was an ‘obvious place’ to send them back.

The vexed Sethusamudram project - which proposes to provide a navigable shipping channel across the Palk Straits between India and Sri Lanka -...

Prof. G.L. Peiris, Minister of External Affairs, was invited to be a panelist at the seventh Democracy Forum held in Bali, Indonesia where 52 countries participated. Prof.

The seven-storied building that houses the Negombo District Hospital was in a grave danger of collapsing, an Opposition “fact–finding mission” consisting of UNP Western Provincial Council members had said.

The protection of girl children was a great responsibility of a civilized society, Child Development and Women's Affairs Minister Tissa Karaliyadda said.

The Federation of Self Employed (FOSE) was collecting approximately Rs.1.8 million per month from the members of the federation without maintaining proper accounting records, the counsel for the plaintiffs informed Colombo District Court yesterday

Adverse weather conditions claimed the life of one persn in Yatiyantota last evening, the Disaster Management Center (DMC) said yesterday.

Construction work on the Northern Expressway would start in November, Highways Project Minister, Nirmala Kotalawala said.

An organized robber gang that often travelled in buses and trains all over the country and collect funds by showing old medical reports of dead family members and under the pretext of providing treatment to sick children was taken into custody by

A mysterious blight that affected coconut cultivation in the south has worsened, and statistically, 225,273 coconut trees in the Matara District have been uprooted to prevent spreading of the blight.

More than 50 garment factory employees in the Katunayake Free Trade Zone (FTZ) took ill after having their dinner and were admitted to the Negombo Base Hospital.

The Yal Devi night mail service to Jaffna was inaugurated last evening, after a lapse of 24 years from the Colombo Fort Railway station.It was inaugurated by the Post and Telecommunications Minister Jeewan Kumaratunga.

 The Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) chief, Ven. Kirama Wimalajothi Thera yesterday said that it was high time to select a well educated and disciplined youths to govern the country...

  The Buddha Sasana and Religious Affairs Ministry yesterday said it would look into the reports of the dying and wilting condition of a Bodhi Tree supposedly planted near Sanchi in India by President Mahinda Rajapaksa a couple of years ago.

A future United National Party (UNP) government will set up a special institution similar to the University Grants Commission (UGC) to regulate the private universities....

The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) said yesterday it welcomed the resumption of train services to Jaffna, after a lapse of 24 years.

The Attanagalla Chief Magistrate M.Y.M. Irshadeen had revoked yesterday (14) the warrant issued to the suspects;...

Jean-Paul Monchau, Ambassador of France to Sri Lanka, said that his country held the view that Sri Lanka should abolish the death penalty and ratify all the relevant international treaties.

Navy Commander Vice Admiral Jayantha Perera said that at a time when the country was focusing on achieving sustainable development in many avenues...

A ruling party member of the Imbulpe Pradeshiya Sabha was behind the recent attack on the students of the Sabaragamuwa University,...

Minister of External Affairs, Prof. G.L. Peiris held bilateral discussions with Mr. Yun Byung-se,...

A woman who lived alone was preparing lunch. The pot of rice was on the hearth. She had been cutting the dry fish after scraping coconut.

A sports stadium complex in Anuradhapura in the North Central Province, which had been modernised with all amenities,...