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Veteran British lawmaker, Lord Naseby, PC, yesterday disapproved of the UK government s support for ..

Sri Lanka`s Marxist party Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) says the country is currently facing the w..

An 18 year old school girl was dragged away by a crocodile this morning when she went to the Nilwala..

Colombo Additional Magistrate Prasanna Alwis yesterday ordered that CID Inspector Merrill Ranjan be ..

Sri Lanka`s national career SriLankan Airlines has decided to temporarily suspend flights to three E..

Reconditioned vehicle importers yesterday lamented that they will have no option but to close down ..

Speaker of the Sri Lankan parliament Chamal Rajapaksa has directed that responses and supplementary ..

UNP Matara District MP Mangala Samaraweera yesterday recalled how the then Opposition MP Mahinda Raj..

In a most positive development, Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa has spoken of the need for the..

Washington D.C.: The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on late Monday (02) co..

Vehicle buyers were in a severe state of shock yesterday on hearing that prices of vehicles below th..

The International Monetary Fund on Monday approved a $427 million loan for Sri Lanka, hoping to shor..

Amid reports that some LTTE cadres have come to Sri Lanka from India with the intention of creating ..

Sri Lanka is fully capable with dealing with any pressures that come from Geneva, New York or Washin..

Our lead story of page one yesterday was on one of those positive developments in post-war Sri Lanka..

The regions second comprehensive seven star hotel would be opened in two years in the Kalpitiya inte..

The government has referred the lease of the 99 numbered oil tank farm at Trincomalee to Lanka India..

New laws passed to give sweeping tax exemptions no customs duties, no exchange control, no regulati..

By Shamindra Ferdinando

Instead of promoting national reconciliation, the U..

There was much that was thought-provoking and edifying in the address made by President Mahinda Raja..

Mirihana police has arrested two suspects in connection with the assault on lawyer Sumith Silva at t..

More than 20 villagers, including six Rela members, nabbed 24 foreigners whom they believe ente..

The Sri Lankan government has decided to raise the taxes levied on motor vehicles, cigarette, and Li..

Prices of essential goods are increasing ahead of the National New Year as a direct result of the de..

The LTTE is now citing the US-sponsored resolution on Sri Lanka, recently adopted in Geneva, to supp..

Three police personnel and a home guard, attached to Buttala police, arrested on a charge of raping ..

Sri Lanka`s inflation as measured by consumer prices in Colombo jumped to a 6-month high in March, f..

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) will consider making a $ 400 million loan disbursement to Sri ..

Sevills International, the world`s largest and most reputable real estate service provider has opene..

Sri Lanka has offered Vietnam a block on the Mannar Basin to carryout oil exploration and the latter..

Central Bank Governor Ajith Nivad Cabraal has said the government may stop supplying dollars to pay ..

The cynics would say that `We now have it from the horse`s mouth.` At a time when the progressive se..

Police investigating the killing of an EPDP cadre, identified as Ragunathan alias Muththu, on March ..

Another 384 former combatants of the terrorist group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in Sri ..

The government said yesterday that Public Relations Minister Mervyn Silva s recent statement that he..

Sri Lanka has spent r 425 billion rupees during the last five years for the reconstruction and devel..

Cosmetics, Devices and Drugs Regulatory Authority of Sri Lanka says raids are conducted island wide ..

Citing a simmering row between Israel and the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) over the l..

Had a Ceasefire Agreement arranged by Norway remained in force today, UNP leader Ranil Wickremesingh..

There is the customary rejoicing almost countrywide over those who have performed outstandingly at t..

Fifteen Samurdhi officers including three Samurdhi bank officers in Nuwara Eliya were dismissed from..

A Colombo Court today severely warned a disabled Sri Lankan Army Captain not to make any statements ..

SriLankan Airlines, the national airline of Sri Lanka, in collaboration with the Sri Lanka High Comm..

Deputy Leader of Sri Lanka`s main opposition United National Party (UNP) Sajith Premadasa says that ..

Some NGOs have taken the responsibility to promote wheat flour consumption in Sri Lanka, said Constr..

Japan and Sri Lanka have agreed to add Narita International Airport to their open skies agreement, a..

The Sri Lankan government has decided to shut down some of its embassies in Europe, the Sri Lankan E..

Dismissing speculations that the resolution adopted by the United Nations can impose economic sancti..

A conman who had posed off as a Presidential Coordinating secretary and promised a person from Kandy..

Naval personnel attached to the SLNS Kanchadewa of the Northern Naval Command arrested two persons n..

Amidst concern over exam burdens and increasing pressure on children, an 18 year-old student who fai..

Tea small holders in Sri Lanka say the government has failed to provide assistance to the tea cultiv..

The rupee fell marginally yesterday to close at Rs. 130.10 against the dollar with depreciation pres..

Sri Lanka`s main opposition United National Party (UNP) warns that the people would have to suffer i..

The resolution passed at the 19th Session of the United Nation Human Rights Council sponsored by the..

The GCE (O/L) 2011 results released yesterday have brought smiles and tears to children as is the wa..

Sri Lanka Navy has denied the Indian media reports that its personnel have been engaged in yet anoth..

A massive stock of Illegally felled timber worth more than Rs 1.5 million was seized at four locatio..

The economy grew 8.3 percent in 2011 to Rs. 6,542.7 billion with the per capita income increasing by..

Dubai`s low-cost carrier Flydubai has affirmed its commitment to the Sri Lankan government of flying..