Sri Lanka is looking for alternatives to Iranian crude oil in the face of US-led sanctions aimed at spurring Tehran to abandon its nuclear programme, Colombo’s petroleum minister said Wednesday. […]

The US State Department official has stated that it shared concerns about the judicial processes used to try and convict Former Army Chief Sarath Fonseka and the wider implications his prosecution has on freedom of expression and the rule of law in Sri Lanka. It adds that in the U.S. Department of State’s 2010 report […]

In response to our story on Wednesday February 22 under the headline ‘Arabian Light fuel to replace Iranian Oil’ Minister of Petroleum Industries Susil Premajayantha yesterday said the government had not stopped buying fuel from Iran. […]

External Affairs Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris yesterday stressed that the government wouldn’t negotiate with the US on the proposed resolution, which the Obama administration intended to move against Sri Lanka during the 19th sessions of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) scheduled to begin on Feb. 27. […]

The government was making baseless accusations against the UNP, after assuring the United Nations Human Rights Commission that war crimes allegations against the security forces would be investigated and those found guilty punished, General Secretary of the UNP Tissa Attanayake said yesterday. […]

A forest fire in a section of the Bio Diversity Complex in Ambuluwawa, Gampola was extinguished with the help of two Air Force helicopters. The fire erupted on Tuesday evening, spreading to other areas. […]

Several areas in the country are currently experiencing a power outage due to breakdown of the five grid substations and a transmission line from Polpitiya to Habarana, the Power and Energy Ministry said a short while ago. […]

A cache of nearly 100 Rocket Propelled Grenades (RPGs) including live ones were found in Puttalam today and two persons have been arrested. […]

Presenting the government’s national action plan on the protection and promotion of human rights to the United Nations Human Rights Council bypassing Parliament is a breach of Constitution, Opposition Leader Ranil Wickremesighe charged today. […]

Minister of Information Technology Ranjith Siyambalapitiya refuted the allegations being made by the Opposition United National Party saying that the government has increased oil prices in accordance with an agreement made with the International Monitory Fund as baseless and sheer imagination. […]

Opposition and UNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe today requested the government to increase salaries if it is unable to reduce a fuel price that was jacked up recently. […]

Power and Energy Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka yesterday set an example in energy conservation by directing his officials to reduce his fuel allowance by 10 percent. […]

The government had stopped purchasing fuel from Iran as a result of the crisis in that region and had gone for alternatives to obtain fuel, Minister of Power and Energy Susil Premajayantha informed Parliament yesterday. […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa has appointed Economic Development Deputy Minister Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena as the Acting Minister of Mass Media and Information until Minister Keheliya Rambukwella returns from abroad. […]