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President Mahinda Rajapaksa, in a letter to the South African President Jacob Zuma has expressed condolences on behalf of the Sri Lankan people on the death of former South African President Nelson Mandela. Please find below the complete text of the message. […]

Fire fighters are trying to douse a fire that broke out a short while near the Bodhiraja Temple in Pettah. […]

The DMK has issued a notice seeking a discussion, under Rule 193 in the Lok Sabha, against the human rights violations and war crimes committed by the Sri Lankan defence forces against Tamils during the civil war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). […]

(Reuters) – The Sri Lankan rupee retreated from a more than five-week high in early trade on Thursday due to importer dollar demand, dealers said, a day after short-term interest rates fell to more than two-year lows. The island nation’s 91-day and 182-day treasury bill yields fell to their lowest in more than two years […]

A train engine, which was at the Demtagoda Railway Yard had automatically started at around 1.45 am today and preceded without a driver before it was stopped between Ratmalana and Mt. Lavinia, railway authorities said. […]

The mother of the deceased underworld kingpin, Chintaka Wasantha, alias Ketayam Chinthaka, who died during a confrontation with the officers of the Special Task Force (STF), had requested the government to meet the costs of her son’s funeral. […]

Sri Lanka has described as “unfortunate” Manmohan Singh’s absence from last month’s Commonwealth meeting in Colombo and denied information about a visit by the Prime Minister announced by finance minister P. Chidambaram last week. […]

The office of the Ministry of Law and Order which was established by President on August 16 was officially declared open today. The Department of Police and the Special Task Force come under the purview of the Ministry. […]

(Reuters) – China was Sri Lanka’s top commercial lender and foreign direct investor in the first nine months of 2013, government data showed on Tuesday, as the island nation turns away from Western nations critical of its human rights record. China committed $517.9 million in commercial loans, around 39 percent of the $1.32 billion total […]

Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Nisha Desai Biswal. (File photo) The U.S. has warned Sri Lanka that the patience of the international community could wear thin if the Rajapaksa Government does not take steps to address the issue of human rights, accountability and reconciliation process. […]

A $400 million Sri Lankan resort and casino complex planned by Australia’s Crown Resorts Ltd faces additional delays and is unlikely to be approved before the end of the year, a top government official said. […]

Prime Minister D. M. Jayaratne told Parliament that he had ordered his staff and secretaries not to issue letters, on his behalf, hereafter. […]

Sri Lanka ranked 91st place on Transparency International’s corruption perception index for 2013, according to a report released on Tuesday. […]

JVP Parliamentary Group leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake, yesterday in Parliament, demanded to know from the government what action had been taken with regard to a person who had sent a request to the Customs, from the Prime Minister’s office, to release a container load of heroin imported to the country from Karachi. […]

An underworld leader, Chinthaka Wasantha, known as Ketayam Chinthaka, who is the main suspect in the killing of a policeman and his wife in Kamburupitiya was shot dead during a confrontation with Special Task Force personnel in Nigala last night, police said. […]