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Navy has handed over 94 Tamil Nadu fishermen taken into custody by them to the Indian Coast Guard at the International Maritime Boundary Line. […]

Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa will visit New Delhi early next week for high-level talks with India’s National Security Adviser (NSA) Ajit Doval, according to reliable sources. The agenda for the meeting is unclear. Sources in New Delhi confirmed the visit, but declined to “get into the details” of the meeting. […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa told the Government Parliamentary Group yesterday (16) to not complicate political issues when there is a presidential poll just around the corner. […]

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister O. Panneerselvam on Thursday sought Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s intervention to secure 75 fishing boats from the custody Sri Lankan authorities. […]

The All Ceylon Nurses’ Union (ACNU) is demanding that the government allocate 5% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to the health sector in Budget 2015. […]

At least one person was killed and another 55 injured when a bus plunged into a precipice at Teldeniya on the Kandy-Mahiyanganaya road a short while ago, police said […]

The European Commission proposed a ban on imports of fish from Sri Lanka for not tackling illegal fishing properly and lifted a ban on fish imports from Belize following the reform of its vessel inspection practices. […]

The validity of an Australian law used to detain 157 Tamil asylum seekers at sea in June is under the spotlight in the High Court in Canberra. The group, which included 50 children, set out from Pondicherry in India after fleeing Sri Lanka some time earlier. […]

The government, that has a serious social media phobia, will attempt to prevent people from accessing Facebook as the presidential election draws near, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) MP Vijitha Herath said. […]

A ceremony was organised on October 13, 2014 to mark the inauguration of the Pallai-Jaffna reconstructed railway track and signal system. The ceremony was graced by Mahinda Rajapaksa, President of Sri Lanka, Kumara Welgama, Minister of Transport, Douglas Devananda, Minister of Traditional Industries and Small Enterprises Development, Y. K. Sinha, High Commissioner of India, Rohana […]

Yal Devi, which is currently running between Colombo and Palai, will be extended to Jaffna from today (13) under the patronage of President Mahinda Rajapaksa. […]

The Department of Excise today said that the price of arrack has been increased by Rs 90 per proof litre with effect from October 10. The price of beer with over 5% alcohol has been increased by Rs 15 while beer with less than 5% alcohol has been hikes by Rs 10. […]

The UNP, on Friday, proposed and seconded Party Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe as the common candidate from the single largest Opposition political party. When the 20-member committee, appointed to assist in the presidential election, met, deputy leader Sajith Premadasa asked Wickremesinghe whether he could confirm his intention to be the Party’s presidential candidate. The UNP leader […]

UNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe has told Opposition Leader of the Uva Provincial Council Harin Fernando that naming a prime ministerial candidate in the run-up to the forthcoming presidential election is not realistic as the party was campaigning for the abolition of the executive presidency. […]

Sri Lanka has lifted a temporary ban on the sale of some Anchor milk powder made by New Zealand-based Fonterra after local tests showed it did not cause illness in children, a government official said on Friday. […]