Category: Local News

US-based Centre for Justice and Accountability has confirmed that it has filed a civil lawsuit against former Secretary of Defence Gotabaya Rajapaksa in a US court.

Four Tamil asylum-seekers have been released from police custody amid a terrorism investigation, writes Phil Miller.

Sri Lankan politicians praised China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) for its benefits to their country.

Planting  a plant at the dawn of the oncoming Sinhala  and Tamil New Year, people should join together to accomplish the duties for environmental conservation, President invites all Sri Lankans.

The Sri Lanka Transport Board has implemented special bus services to facilitate the public returning to Colombo from hometowns following the Sinhala and Tamil New year.

The dawn of the Sinhala and Tamil New Year will be celebrated in Sri Lanka today (April 14).

Some bureaucrats are calling it the “air wars” – the tussle between the President’s Office and the Prime Minister’s Office – over Rupavahini, the national television broadcaster.

Since the Sun and the Moon are the prime factors in the sustenance of life on Earth, the people worshipped the Sun and the Moon with utmost devotion since ancient times. Considering nature as divine was a habitual practice of kings and the general public, states President Maithripala Sirisena in a Sinhala and Tamil New Year message.

Underworld kingpin Makandure Madush has amassed wealth, which could top one billion rupees, a close associate of the drug lord has told police investigators.

London: Four men have been arrested moments after they arrived in Luton Airport on board an international flight.

The United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture has completed its first visit to Sri Lanka from 2 to 12 April where it examined the treatment of people deprived of their liberty and the safeguards in place for their protection against torture and ill-treatment.

Former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa says all necessary steps have been successfully concluded to renounce his US citizenship.

Former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa has arrived in Sri Lanka after his private visit to the United States.

Opposition leader Mahinda Rajapaksa says that the government should make arrangements to increase the allowances for elders.

Sri Lanka’s cabinet of ministers on Thursday approved a proposal to kick off an integrated tourism digital plan to boost the number of arrivals to the country.

President Maithripala Sirisena said that Sri Lanka has been taking a number of fruitful measures in strengthening the rights of the working community.