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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. […]

Love, understanding will strengthen peace, tolerance – President Christians in Sri Lanka will today join fellow believers the world overin celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace. They will share in the loving and giving that marks the spirit of Christmas, when families and communities come together to share in this great […]

Sarath Fonseka has invited Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake to enter politics because he has understood through his past experiences that she is presently engaged in a political campaign without acting impartially in her post, Mass Media Minister and Cabinet spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella said. […]

Sri Lankan Navy has arrested 27 Indian fishermen and seized their four trawlers after accusing them of fishing inside the country’s maritime area. […]

Minister of Health Maithripala Sirisena says that measures will be taken to provide settlements in the highland areas for those affected by floods in the Polonnaruwa district. […]

Around 222,908 people belonging to 61,254 families have been affected by bad weather the country experienced during the past few days, the Disaster Management Centre said yesterday. Thirty nine people died, 23 were injured and 12 were missing up to yesterday, Disaster Management Centre Assistant Director Lal Sarath Kumara said. […]

One of the suspects in the killing of a mother and daughter in Kotakethana, Ratnapura in January this year, has been abducted by unidentified men last night (22), the suspect’s wife has complained to the police. […]

By Walter Jayawardhana Explaining the recent Polonnaruwa showers of yellow rain Dr. Chandra Wickramasinghe said it is part of the growth cycle of red rain. In an interview the scientist of the Buckingham Center of Astrobiology in UK said, “The Kerala rain also had the same changes of colour from red to yellow. In the […]

COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lanka on Saturday arrested at least 100 Chinese nationals accused of an internet fraud scheme targeting people in their home country, a police spokesman said. […]

The order given by Speaker Chamal Rajapaksa stands on the matter of impeachment of Chief Justice Dr Shirani Bandaranayaka, said Deputy Speaker of Parliament Chandima Weerakkody yesterday, adding that no Court shall issue notices on the Speaker of the Parliament or members of the Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC). […]

Sri Lanka will send its first astronaut to space within the next seven years with the help of the Chinese Government now that we have entered the space age with the launching of the SupremeSat–1 on November 27, Science and Technology Senior Minister Tissa Vitharana said yesterday. […]

By Walter Jayawardhana Dr.Chandra Wickramasinghe of the Buckingham Center for Astrobiology in the Buckingham University , UK said the cells found in the Red Rain collected in Sri Lanka according to preliminary investigations contain high concentrations of arsenic and silver and “that makes them extremely unlikely of any earth origin.” […]