President Mahinda Rajapaksa promised alternate land for those who lost their homes due to landslides in the Matale district. During a visit to flood and landslide affected areas in the Matale district on Saturday, the President told residents, the government will provide suitable alternate lands in safe locations for those whose property has been totally […]

“Not only was he a great admirer of Sri Lanka cricket, he also loved our country,” Ranatunga said, adding cricket world would be poorer without Greig, Colombo: Remembering Tony Greig, who passed away after losing his battle with lung cancer, Sri Lanka’s World Cup winning skipper Arjuna Ranatunga said that former England captain and celebrated […]

An underworld figure known as ‘Bomba Sira’ was assaulted to death early today by an unidentified gang on the railway track near the Ratmalana railway station, police said. […]

Colombo: A top Sri Lankan minister on Saturday claimed the dispute over the impeachment of the nation’s first woman chief justice is likely to be used to move an adverse resolution against the country at the next UN rights session. […]

The Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) appointed by the Speaker to probe charges against Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranaike was a laid down procedure found in the constitution. The Standing Orders are created under the constitution by the legislature in dealing with certain specific areas for which the legislature’s functions have been determined by the creators of […]

The tuition master who was allegedly involved in leaking the GCE O/L Science paper has been remanded until January 10. […]

By Walter Jayawardhana Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe of  the Buckingham Center for Astrobiology in the United Kingdom said the microbes present in the red rain water that had been collected in the Sevanagala area in Sri Lanka when seen through the optical microscope are still alive and are with tails moving  like sperm and high in […]

Not many will doubt that one of the most sought after keyword on Internet is “sex”. And Sri Lankans, it seems, are the most search savvy when it comes to Googling that term. […]

By Janaka Alahapperuma The British Buddhist community was shocked on Christmas eve when they heard the sad news of three Buddhist monks have been killed in a head-on car crash on the A68 in the east of Scotland. The two car accident happened about ten miles south of Edinburgh and 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south […]

By Shenali Waduge The question is very simple. While rape in any form is abhorred and should be severely punished by all nations what needs to be answered is what makes the recent gangrape by 6 men of a 23 year old on a bus in Delhi any different from the gangrape of a 16 […]

Deputy Leader of the United National Party, Sajith Premadasa says that one cannot rest at a time when the people are in distress. […]

It is eight years from the day the Boxing Day tsunami struck, and many Sri Lankans though they remember, do not particularly want to reminisce about the death and destruction caused by those deathly waves. But, it’s the upside of the aftermath of this calamity that has to be remembered, to capture a little bit […]

A twenty one-year-old female journalist on her way to work, was killed this morning, when she was knocked down by a lorry that went out of control in Colombo 7, police said. […]