Minister Mervyn Silva, addressing the media at the court complex said he was able to bear the Magistrate’s orders remanding his son until 24 September as he is a staunch Buddhist and his beliefs gave him strength.

“There was an incident involving myself in Beliattha but it never appeared in the newspapers. People fight and get into squabbles. But the Malaka issue was `blown up’ because he is my son. If it was anyone else, there wouldn’t have been any publicity,” he said.

Milco (Pvt) Ltd, a government entity, is to pay Rs 9 million to secure the services of an auto racer as Brand Ambassador, and display a sticker on his ...

Despite the government's announcement that it will not do away with the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, its coalition partner the Jathika Hela Urumaya ...

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 ...