The collective effort of all trade unions was essential to safeguard the rights of workers, Leader of the Mahajana Eksath Peramuna (MEP)...

Shan Rajamanikam, the ruling party Tamil politician who was to steer the party in the East,...

The Auditor General has qualified the audit queries raised regarding alleged irregular investments of savings of the Employees Provident Fund (EPF)...

The JVP affiliated Ethera Api organisation announced yesterday that it was planning to initiate discussions with the Elections Commissioner to implement...

Leader of the Opposition in the Uva Provincial Council, Harin Fernando,...

Appeal Court Judges A. W. A. Salaam (President) H.N. J. Perera and Sunil Rajapaksa regretted their failure to dispose the appeal earlier than they had,...

A decision could be reached in a week’s time over the trawler fishing of the 23 fishermen of Valvettithurai East, Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswaran told the protesting fishermen yesterday.

The government was colonising people from other regions in the Northern Province, Chief Minister of the Northern Province C.V. Wigneswaran speaking at the NPC sittings at Kaithadi yesterday.

A Kanchuka Pooja and the blessing of regimental flags, the Buddhist flag and the National flag were held at Kirivehera on Monday...

Notwithstanding the major economic dividends since opening the economy such as the sharp increase of the GDP, rapid economic progress,...

Two Army personnel of the 57th brigade, division 574 in the Kilinochchi security forces headquarters who saved a one-and-half-year-old infant from drowning...

Government will continue to purchase potatoes and onions at a stable price and would also be expanding the programme further,...

A large number of Thriposha packets were issued to children and pregnant mothers by the Ranorawa Hospital clinic in Nochchiyagama were from a stock...

We are not judging Sri Lanka; our attempt is to evaluate the extent of Sri Lanka’s compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR),....

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Two men who allegedly waylaid the manager of a private educational institute and robbed him of Rs.3.3 million at gun point were taken into custody by...

Residents of the area yesterday staged a protest demanding immediate reinstatement of the police sergeant who was interdicted in connection with...

The Free Media Movement (FMM) yesterday staged a protest outside the Fort Railway Station over the assault on a journalist in Hali Ela during the Uva...

The Industrial Technology Institute (ITI) was capable of conducting lboratory tests to the internationally accepted standards to determine DCD...

A double cab transporting a stock of firewood had veered off the road at Wewathenna on the Meegahakiula- Pitamaruwa Road and gone down a 700 foot...

The second stage of the fourth phase of the training programme to develop ‘Leadership Qualities and Positive Thinking’ in undergraduates would...

“You have bathed enough. That is what I told my grand-daughter. All of a sudden, I noticed her being pulled by a current which carried her away.

Thousands of members of “Gemidiriya” organisations in several areas of he country including the Galle, Matara, Hambantota, Monaragala, Badulla and...

Power supply to several areas was interrupted when a lorry transporting a stock of 300 bags of cement veered off the road at Thisnampolagama on the...

Parliamentaian Vidura Wikramanayake and the area residents staged a protest against the delay in implementing work on the Horana - Galagedera main road.

The side drains constructed about a month ago, along the Galle-Colombo main road at Pinwatta in Panadura are now being demolished much to the anxiety of the area residents.  

In the wake of a likely snap presidential election, the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) has decided to explore the possibility of forming a united front with...

The Medical Faculty Students’ Action Committee yesterday staged a protest in front of the Hultsdorf Court Complex against the alleged privatisation of education.

Medical Faculty students at Rajarata University launched a protest yesterday (29) noon against what they called a conspiracy to legalise the Malabe Private Medical College.

The kith and kin who went to give evidence to the Presidential Commission on Missing Persons at the Mulankavil Madhya Maha Vidyalayam...