Police say monks were poisoned
Investigations have found that five monks who fell sick in Anuradhapura last month after consuming food, had been poisoned by ...
West Indies cricketer Runako Morton dies
West Indies cricketer Runako Morton died in a road accident in Trinidad and Tobago on Sunday night. The 33-year old ...
Imthiaz won’t contest polls
UNP member and former Minister Imthiaz Bakeer Markar says he will not contest any future election. Speaking at an event ...
Sri Lanka lose thrilling first final
Sri Lanka lost a thrilling first final in the CB series against Australia today after making a strong comeback in ...
GTF shows rare support to LLRC
In a rare show of support to a commission appointed by the Sri Lankan government, a leading Tamil minority diaspora ...
Underage girls abused, raped
The police received complaints of two girls being raped in Suriyawewa yesterday, the police media unit said today. According to ...
MSF Denies Gota’s Claims On Final War
The medical humanitarian organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) says it is concerned about a claim by Secretary of Defense Gotabhaya ...
Suspect in human smuggling arrested
The police said that a key suspect, who was involved in sending 45 of the 269 Sri Lankan illegal immigrants ...
Samarasinghe returns from Geneva
The head of the Sri Lankan delegation attending the UN Human Rights Council session in Geneva, Minister Mahinda Samarasignhe, returned ...
US denies Special Forces are in Sri Lanka
The US embassy denied Saturday that its Special Forces were based in Sri Lanka — as claimed by a senior ...
Mahela retained as captain for Asia cup
Sri Lankan cricket selectors have retained Mahela Jayawardena as captain for the Asia Cup which will be held in Bangladesh ...
Manmohan to decide on Sri Lanka
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday reportedly assured the DMK in Tamil Nadu that he would talk to External ...
Sri Lanka slams UNHRC (VIDEO)
Sri Lanka, on Friday, came down hard on the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and the UN High Commissioner for ...
Sri Lanka beat Australia to send India home
Sri Lanka beat Australia by nine runs despite Dan Christian’s hat-trick in a dramatic one-day international to book their place ...
Pillay tells UNHRC to address Lanka
UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay says she hopes the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) will address reports on Sri ...