The Mrs.world International pageant will go ahead in Sri Lanka as scheduled in December and the recent incident where the reigning Mrs. World, Caroline Jurie uncrowned Mrs Sri Lanka, attracting international attention will not have any impact, nation

Action should be taken against former President Maithirpala Sirisena without delay as he has been held responsible for the Easter Sunday attacks, Archbishop of Colombo Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith said today.

At least twenty people were injured in an accident occurred at Millaniya on the Southern Expressway, Police said.

Former President Chandrika Kumaratunga has informed the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) General Secretary Dayasiri Jayasekara to cancel the SLFP All Island Working Committee meeting scheduled for April 5 claiming it was against the party constitution.

PCR tests were conducted on students of Ananda College, Colombo after a school teacher tested positive for COVID-19, Public Health Inspectors’ (PHI) Union Secretary M. Balasuriya said today.

An investigation into a video which circulated on social media earlier today, which showed a police officer mercilessly assaulting a civilian, has received wide spread condemnation on social media while police have launched an immediate investigatio

The Government has banned a number of Tamil diaspora groups, including some influential organizations based in the UK.

Sri Lanka Cricket team is not among the top ten in the ICC Cricket World Cup Super League while England have climbed to the top following their victory over India.

Sri Lanka will be getting the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccines from India despite the temporary halt imposed by India on the export of the vaccines, Prof. Channa Jayasumana, the State Minister of Pharmaceutical Production, Supply and Regulation said.

The resolution on Sri Lanka which was adopted by the UN Human Rights Council will take immediate effect with the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) beginning the process to closely monitor Sri Lanka, UN sources told Daily Mirror

Vote on resolution today shortly after 9 am Geneva time

The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) and the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) have entered into a bilateral currency swap agreement amounting to US$ 1.5 billion.

The vote on the resolution against Sri Lanka at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva has been postponed to tomorrow (Tuesday).

A 16 year old boy who was reported missing, has returned home unharmed this evening, his mother told Daily Mirror.

Following instructions issued allegedly by the President’s office, workers from the Colombo Municipal Council had begun taking down a massive mural which had been put up near the Nelum Pokuna, at the Vihara Maha Devi Park, a short while ago, which

Colombo has recorded a sudden rise in Covid infections, after the numbers dropped over the past couple of weeks.

The Health Ministry today issued quarantine measures for all incoming passengers or tourists arriving from overseas during the pandemic of COVID-19, Director General of Health Services Dr Asela Gunawardana said.

A former SriLankan Airlines official, found guilty of insulting the modesty of an employee, failed to appear before an Indian Magistrate today for sentencing.

The resolution on Sri Lanka will be taken up at the United Nations Human Rights Council next Monday with a vote expected the same day or the following day, Daily Mirror learns.

Replying to the claims that ecological destruction is going on in the Sinharaja Rainforest Reserve due to unauthorised construction of buildings, Chairman of the Central Environmental Authority (CEA), S. Amarasinghe said there are currently no constr

The UK Metropolitan Police officers clashed with a group of LTTE supporters in Kenton North-West London, on Sunday, British media reported.

The report of the Presidential Commission which probed political victimisation had held former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and five other Ministers responsible for political victimisation.

The core group of countries working on Sri Lanka’s issue at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) will be ready with the final version of the resolution after another session of informal consultations with the states interested in the iss

China has promised to gift another 300,000 doses of its Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to Sri Lanka, in addition to 300,000 pledged previously, an official said.

Sri Lanka is ready to consider a singleshot vaccine which has been given approval in the US.

The government decided today to allow the burial of Muslim COVID-19 victims after the technical committee appointed in this regard gave clearance, a Minister said today.

Eighteen countries have pledged to speak on behalf of Sri Lanka during the ongoing session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), a top source said.

Following complaints that several people who were not under the ‘vulnerable groups’ had received the Astra Zeneca vaccinations against COVID-19 in recent days, health officials at a meeting yesterday decided to get tough and strictly implement th

Health Services Director General Dr. Asela Gunawardene who expressed concern over the lack of public cooperation to bring the pandemic under control, said it was left to the people to decide whether they would hold wedding receptions, parties, public

Archbishop of Colombo His Eminence Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith today said he will be compelled to call for a probe by an international court over the Easter Sunday attacks, if justice is not meted out to victims of the mayhem and their families.