Latest Sri Lanka News and Top Stories

Six men went on trial in Sri Lanka on Wednesday on charges they murdered a British aid worker and gang-raped his Russian fiancée, following two years of international pressure to prosecute the defendants, who include a member of the country’s ruling party. […]

Sri Lanka’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva, Ambassador Ravinatha Aryasinha responding to the High Commissioner’s Report on Sri Lanka, informed the UN Human Rights Council on 26th March 2014 that rather than encourage and support the ongoing reconciliation process in Sri Lanka, as well as the constructive engagement Sri Lanka continues to […]

Sri Lankan stocks ended little changed on Wednesday amid concerns ahead of a U.N. resolution on the country’s human rights record. […]

The time period of the Presidential Commission to inquire into cases of alleged disappearances of persons in the Northern and Eastern Provinces has been amended to cover the period from 1983 to 2009. Previously, the time period consisted of the years from 1990 to 2009. […]

The Sri Lankan rupee traded steady on Wednesday despite importer dollar demand as dealers were reluctant to trade above 130.70 levels due to moral suasion. […]

A three-wheeler and a van collided head-on on the Matale road in Galewela killing one person and injuring three others, police stated. […]

Another Rs.2.2 million worth forged currency notes was taken into CID custody from the house of businessman, who was arrested yesterday for allegedly handing over of Rs. 2 million counterfeit notes yesterday to Dulanjalie Jayakody. […]

Elections Commissioner Mahinda Deshapriya yesterday said only the voters, staff of the polling station, secretaries of contesting parties, candidates, polling agents and election observers, police officers on duty at the polling station and persons authorized by the returning officer are permitted to enter polling stations. […]

A dispute between two election candidates representing two different political parties over pasting of posters had ended in a brawl yesterday, where the supporters of one candidate had ended up assaulting the other. According to the police, the dispute had ensued when UPFA candidate Renuka Perera had pasted his posters covering a banner of JVP […]

The European Commission says that five nations including Sri Lanka which were warned in 2012 to take action against illegal fishing had made significant progress, but said the Commission is continuing to monitor the situation. […]

The Supreme Court will take up for inquiry the Fundamental Rights petition filed before it by Northern Provincial Council Chief Secretary Ms. Vijayalaskmi Ramesh seeking to prevent Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswaran from interfering, and attempting to discontinue her from her post as Chief Secretary since the day he assumed office as CM, on July 24. […]

March 24 – Sri Lanka is maintaining its 7.8 percent economic growth target for this year despite a lingering drought because it thinks falling lending rates could spur investment, the country’s treasury secretary said on Monday. […]

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razar said Monday that a new analysis of electronic data shows that the missing Malaysian airlines with 239 people aboard went down in a remote area of the Indian ocean and indicated there were no survivors. […]

The Coalition government is continuing to sidestep whether it will support an international investigation into war crimes in Sri Lanka, despite Labor and the Greens now both backing it. […]