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The second phase of the Southern Expressway will be opened today.  Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa will declare open the second phase of the Southern Expressway from Pinnaduwa in Galle to Godagama in Matara today (15) at 3 p.m. […]

The Sri Lankan rupee edged up on Friday from its near two-week low as banks sold dollars amid lack of importer dollar demand, dealers said. […]

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa declared here on Thursday that the next round of talks between the fishermen of Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka would be held only after all the fishermen from Tamil Nadu and their boats were released by the Sri Lankan Government. (The second round of talks scheduled for Thursday was called […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa has alleged that those seeking to destabilise the country were now accusing the government of causing religious tensions. […]

Sri Lanka will be hosting the next International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP) Sept. 18- 21, 2014, with the opening ceremony scheduled to take place Sept. 19. […]

A real estate agent whose wife is expecting their first child has been stabbed to death outside his real estate business in Sydney’s west. […]

Eight Sri Lankan tourists were Wednesday injured, including a woman in critical condition, on Yamuna Expressway as their mini bus in which they were travelling collided with a truck, police said. […]

Urging the public to vote the UNP into power at the forthcoming Western and Southern Provincial Council Elections,the party’s National Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe said that the people including the armed forces had been given a raw deal by the government. […]

Leader of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), Anura Kumara Dissanayake, said that while he had received four calls from the President on 3 February, presumably to congratulate him on being appointed as the Party Leader the previous day (2 February), he had declined to answer any of them. […]

A Chinese company is to be awarded the second and third stages of a railway line project valued at 600 million U.S. dollars in Sri Lanka, an official said on Tuesday. […]

The main suspect in the murder of a gem businessman in Ratnapura last month has been shot dead during a confrontation with police officers this morning, Police Spokesman SSP Ajith Rohana said. […]

New Zealand needs to lend its support to an independent international investigation into allegations of war crimes in Sri Lanka, Green Party human rights spokesperson Jan Logie said today. […]

Thousands of Tamils demonstrated in Geneva on Monday to protest Sri Lanka’s rejection of calls for an international probe into alleged war crimes at the end of its civil war. […]