A rehabilitated female ex-LTTE cadre hands over her application to join the Civil Defence Force, to Hambantota District MP Namal Rajapaksa in Kilinochchi yesterday. Around 2,000 cadres, including 500 women between the ages of 18 and 35 years submitted their applications to join the CDF at the ceremony. CDF Director General Rear Admiral Ananda Peiris and Minister of Private Transport C.B. Ratnayake were also present at the occasion

Opposition Leader, Ranil Wickremesinghe, while questioning whether it is wrong to prepare for a general election with the aim of toppling the current ...

Divisional Medical Officer of Padiyathalawa and President of the All Ceylon Health Service Association, Dr. A.N.K. Attanayake, came under attack when an ...

Parliamentarian Mangala Samaraweera said the opposition would welcome advice and assistance from anyone to defeat the undemocratic government in power, ...

A Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seeker has become the second person to have an adverse security assessment overturned by Australian Security Intelligence ...

The Sri Lanka army has said that it would reduce the number of military camps in the former rebel stronghold of northern Jaffna and hand over lands back to ...

Seven persons who were injured after being attacked by wasps in the Pahala Kandhurugamuwa area in Diyathalawa this morning have been admitted to the ...

Despite being one of the smaller economies in emerging Asia at USD60bn in 2012, Sri Lanka’s infrastructure development is greater than many of its ...

A stock of goods including shoes, cigarette lighters, gloves and other items that had been imported from China has been seized by Customs Officers during a ...

UPDATED - The Minister for Petroleum Industries Anura Priyadarshana Yapa said ...

Cabinet allocates Rs 300 M to provide cash incentives instead of supplying cattle feed to dairy farmers to promote dairy industry. 

Mounting pressure on the Centre to retrieve Katchatheevu and redraw the maritime boundary with Sri Lanka, Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Tuesday said that ...

Minister C.B. Ratnayake has expressed his gratitude to all Private Bus Associations for the contribution made for the maintenance of the day to day ...

The Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) yesterday accused the government of not making sufficient effort to 'reconnect with the Tamil people' after the end of the ...

Health Minister, Maithripala Sirisena, will be using an armoured vehicle during his visit to Geneva to participate in three health conventions.