The President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai is scheduled to arrive in Sri Lanka on a three-day visit on Sunday, aimed at further strengthening the bilateral relations between the two nations, officials said. […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday stressed that Sri Lanka is not a failed state adding that we have the courage and ability to cope with any issue. […]

The first ever chief minister for Sri Lanka’s Tamil-dominated Northern Province has told the BBC that the central government should stop viewing the north as a “terrorist area”, and must give the province meaningful political powers. […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa has extended the mandate issued to the Presidential Commission to investigate cases of alleged disappearances of persons in the Northern and Eastern Provinces by six months to August 12, 2014. […]

Three Police officers attached to the Minuwangoda Police station were suspended pending an inquiry on the death of woman who had intervened to stop her son being allegedly assaulted by these police officers, Police headquarters said. […]

(Reuters) – Sri Lanka is hoping to buy back more than 10 tonnes of coins that its pilgrims have donated at temples and churches in India to cut down on the cost of minting new rupees, the central bank said on Wednesday. […]

The Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) will not take legal action against Prime Minister D.M. Jayaratne, Minister of Technology, Research and Atomic Energy Patali Champika Ranawaka stated. […]

General Secretary, ofthe Bodu Bala Sena (BBS), Ven. Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thera, said his organization would back Ven. Maduluwawe Sobitha Thera if he comes forward as an independent candidate at a Presidential Election. […]

Nepali Prime Minister Sushil Koirala President Mahinda Rajapaksa has written to the new Nepali Prime Minister Sushil Koirala to congratulate him on his assumption of office this month. […]

Chief Minister C. V. Vigneswaran says that the government has not fulfilled any of its promises to the Northern Provincial Council and that even calls to scale down troops in the war-torn province have gone unheard. […]

– by Shenali D Waduge – There are some facts that the world needs to take cognizance of. Sri Lanka’s conflict has lasted 3 decades The initial training to arm Tamil youth took place in India clandestinely before 1983 – this nullifies any claim to use 1983 riots as an excuse for Tamils to take up arms […]

(Reuters) – Sri Lankan shares fell for a third-straight session on Monday to a more than five-week low as foreign investors continued to dump the island nation’s risky assets, contrary to inflows into other emerging markets in Asia. Before the market opened, Sri Lanka’s central bank kept policy rates steady at multi-year lows, with inflation […]