Price of a 12.5 kg domestic LP gas cylinder reduced by Rs. 250 /- with effect from midnight today. […]

The US Embassy in Colombo rejected the allegations by Minister Gunaratne Weerakoon that he was offered a ‘bribe’ by outgoing US Ambassador Michele Sison. […]

India and Sri Lanka airlifted drinking water to the Maldives on Friday after a fire at a desalination plant led to severe shortages and triggered unrest on the streets of the islands’ capital. […]

A Government Minister has claimed that he was offered a ‘bribe’ by outgoing US Ambassador Michele Sison. […]

Price of petrol & diesel reduced by Rs. 7 per liter & kerosine reduced by Rs. 5 per liter with effect from midnight today. […]

Dec 3 (Reuters) – Bangladesh signed a pact on Wednesday to export 50,000 tonnes of rice to Sri Lanka at $450 a tonne in a first government-to-government deal, a senior food ministry official said. […]

A Sri Lankan man on the death row was pardoned by the father of a young Saudi man run over by the expatriate in Saudi Arabia, foreign media reported today. […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa requested the Tamil community in the Northern Province to keep faith in the motherland as the gold they owned that was returned to them yesterday (04th December). […]

Sri Lanka has best relations with India and will continue to consolidate the special relationship, Sri Lanka’s ruling party said on Wednesday. […]

The government yesterday said that the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) would conduct an investigation into former minister Navin Dissanayake’s claim that he had been offered Rs. 100 million by the government to remain in the UPFA coalition when he was about to cross over to the UNP on Sunday. […]

Over 827 field officers from various districts who are engaged in the process of registering of persons under the recently introduced ‘e-National Identity Card’ system, were awarded letters of appreciation in recognition of their dedicated service at a function held at the Folk Arts Centre premises in Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte today (4th Dec). These field […]

The 2015 Budget of the United People’s Freedom Alliance-administered Medadumbara Pradeshiya Sabha, was today defeated by one-vote majority with six members voting in favour and seven against. […]

Sports Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage complained to the police last night against a caller who had made defamatory remarks against him during a live television programme telecast on a private television channel. […]

At least 38 Indian fishermen lodged in Sri Lanka’s Jaffna prison for alleged poaching are on a fast unto death demanding their early release. […]

Twenty policemen who acted as security guards of Former Minister of Education Services, Duminda Disanayake have been transferred from Anuradhapura Police Headquarters to Police stations in rural areas, as a political revenge. […]

New Delhi, November 3:  Following increased surveillance on traditional routes, smugglers have found a new way to bring in gold — Sri Lanka. […]