The Sri Lanka Muslim Congress struck the biggest blow to President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s re-election hopes yesterday, when it finally stopped dithering over a decision and formally endorsed common opposition candidate Maithripala Sirisena yesterday. […]

Disaster Management Minister Mahinda Amaraweera yesterday expressed confidence that presidential election could be held on January 8, 2015 as scheduled in spite of over a million people being displaced due to heavy rains and earth slips. […]

Twenty-four people have been killed and eight others are missing due to floods and mudslides caused by incessant rain around Sri Lanka over the past week, officials said Sunday. […]

Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) has decided to support Opposition Common Candidate Maithripala Sirisena at the forthcoming Presidential Election, Justice Minister Rauff Hakeem announced. […]

Deputy Minister of Minor Export Crop Promotion Nishantha Muthuhettigama, who recently left the country despite a warrant issued for his arrest, has been arrested at the Katunayake Airport upon arrival from Singapore. […]

The Tamil National Alliance is expected to announce its support to the Common Opposition Candidate Maithripala Sirisena, at his first meeting, scheduled to be held in Jaffna on Tuesday, 30 December. […]

The CID said it was currently investigating the detection of some Swiss Francs one million and US$ 200,000 in a house in Mount Lavinia to ascertain whether it involved a breach of Exchange Control laws. […]

Army rescue operations and relief activities, on directions of Security Force Headquarter Commanders are continuing in island-wide flood-affected areas during the past several days. […]

Kokila Mutuhettigama, wife of maverick UPFA politician and deputy minister Nishantha Mutuhettigama who left the country for Singapore, while a magisterial warrant was out for his arrest told ‘The Island’ yesterday that the law enforcement officers should have taken him into custody if he was wanted by court and asked why they didn’t perform their […]

Five people have been killed in an earth mound collapse in the Rilpola area in the Badulla District, the Deputy Director (Media) of Disaster Management Center Sarath Lal Kumara told media. Altogether 9 deaths have been reported due to the inclement weather. […]

All up-country train services including the Colombo-Kandy, Badulla and Matale-bound trains have been cancelled due to the prevailing severe weather condition, announced the Sri Lanka Railways today. […]

Deputy Minister Muthuhettigama says that he left Sri Lanka this morning for Singapore. He has maid this statement to the media over phone. […]

As towering waves came crashing into the southern coast of Sri Lanka on Dec. 26, 2004, Kushil Gunasekera gathered up his children and they ran for their lives to a nearby temple, the highest point they could find. […]

Common opposition candidate Maithripala Sirisena has demanded Rs. 2.5 billion from Health Minister and former UNP General Secretary Tissa Attanayake for presenting a forged document. […]