A man threw his son into a well and later committed suicide in Tissamaharama this evening, the police said. The police said that the 50 year old man first threw his 5 year old son in the well and then jumped in. The incident took place in Yodawewa, Tissamaharama and both bodies have been recovered. The police said ...

Sri Lanka today said it will apprise Canada of the progress in the human rights situation on the island in view of the upcoming Commonwealth summit in Colombo which Ottawa has threatened to boycott.

May 20, Colombo: The UK's Cleveland Bridge Ltd. has signed a £35 million deal with the Sri Lankan government to build 210 permanent steel bridges in rural areas across the country.

Strike is a success-Secretary-five buses on strike-Organiser The  bus strike that was launched from mid night yesterday by the All Ceylon private bus society association. The buses that had give the support to the strike had been the Chairman Chandana Soysa of the all island southern areas four buses and another bus belonging to a ...

The consultant specialist who inspected the Matale mass grave transferred The Judicial medical officer attached to the Matale general hospital who conducted investigations in regard to the excavations of human bones from the Matale hospital premises has suddenly got a transfer to the Kurunegala general hospital as the Judiciary medical officer. He Dr Ajith Jayasena ...

The imported white sugar contains poisonous matter-Proved It has been proved that the white sugar that is imported from Brazil and other countries is proved to contain poisonous substances. When investigations were carried out at the Gannoruwa laboratories this has been proved. The additional secretary of the Ministry D.B.T Wijeratna had revealed after confirmation. The ...

The Department of Meteorology advises people to be alert over rising water of Gin and Nilwala rivers as well as floods at Pitabaddara, Paanadugama and Tawalama areas.

There will be showers or thundershowers at times in the Western, Southern, Sabaragamuwa and Central provinces over the next couple of days. The Department of Meteorology said that heavy rain falls are also likely at some places. It also said that there may be temporary localized fairly strong wind during showers. The Department of Meteorology ...

The Court of Appeal today decided to hear the case filed against the acquisition of civilian land by the government in Jaffna. Accordingly the case will be heard on May 27 after 1474 persons owning land in Jaffna filed a writ application in the Court of Appeal last week. The petition challenges the Section 2 notices issued under the ...

With differences over the operation and maintenance (O&M) charges and the gross heat rate issues in the power purchase agreement (PPA) sorted out, India’s NTPC is all set to ink the agreement for the execution of the proposed Sampur power project in Trincomale, by early next month, The Hindu website reported. A series of meetings ...

UNP MP Sajith Premadasa says his father gave one group in the LTTE weapons in order to try and create a split in the LTTE. Speaking to the BBC Sandeshiya,  Sajith Premadas said that former President Ranasinghe Premadasa had given weapons to an LTTE click led by Mahattaya. “There were allegations my father gave weapons ...

The bus strike is an utter failure. It is reported from all parts of the country that the strike which was planned for today by some Private Bus Associations had come a cropper. Minister C.B. Ratnayake said that despite plans by certain groups to stage an unreasonable bus strike to ...

Trade Unions have emphatically mentioned that they would not extend any support to attempts made by conspirators to stage a strike tomorrow. Representatives of many Trade Unions asserted that the strike is not targeted at the electricity bill but to achieve political mileage. They laid this emphasis at a media ...

The Lanka Sama Samaja Party has expressed its strong protest on the proposed strike planned by the United National Party and the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna tomorrow. The Party has emphasized that neither it nor any of the Trade Unions affiliated to the Party will join the strike. The Lanka Sama ...

Chairman of the National Trade Union Centre and former Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna Parliamentarian K.D.Lalkantha has accepted the fact they carried out murders, set transformers ablaze and collected identity cards. Mr. Lalkantha accepted that they shattered transformers, collected identity cards and those who spied against the patriotic campaign were killed. Relatives ...

More information of the Friedrich Naumann and United National Party alliance has surfaced. The United National Party is disturbed by the revelation of information. In addition to threats more information is also flowing to the News Division of the Independent Television Network. ITN in the past few days revealed to ...

Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva, a senior politician complete 30 years in politics. Nimal Siripala was very much interested in politics while he was a law student. He entered politics in 1983 after being elected as a member of the Colombo Municipal Council. He became an opposition Parliamentarian for the ...

There are signs of an improvement in the weather situation caused due to a depression. The Department of Meteorology said that rain could be expected in several areas including the South West quarter tomorrow. Duty Officer at the Met Department, Anusha Warnakulasuriya said that the present situation clearly indicates the ...

The Polonnaruwa Sacred Area Road is being developed at the behest of the President. The President during a visit to the Polonnaruwa Sacred Area issued instructions to the officials to completely reconstruct this road for the convenience of the pilgrims visiting the Sacred Area. Accordingly the road reconstruction which was ...

Sri Lanka’s motor vehicle registrations have picked up slightly in April 2013 though still remaining far below levels seen after taxes were hiked last year. An analysis by an equities research house shows that automobile registrations picked up to 1,974 in April this year. The increase was from 1,589 in ...

May 20, Colombo: Sri Lanka will hold its 8th annual Deyata Kirula National Development programme next year in the Puttalam and Kurunegala districts in the North Western Province and Kegalle District in Sabaragamuwa Province, the Economic Development Ministry announced today.

Irrigation dept advises people to be on alert as the water level of Gin ganga and Nilwala ganga increasing and overflowing at 3 places.andnbsp;(Info dept)

A delegation of Labor MPs in Australia have approached Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr and urged him to take a tougher line on alleged human rights abuses in Sri Lanka, The Australian newspaper reported. The delegation of between 6-12 Labor MPs petitioned Senator Carr after last Tuesday’s caucus meeting. A spokesman for Senator Carr confirmed the approach. ...

The UNP said today that the government feared the tomorrow’s strike against the electricity tariffs hike and was using various tactics to force the workers to keep away from taking part in the campaign.

India was the second largest development aid giver to Sri Lanka last year behind China, providing over $700 million to the island nation, according to latest official figures. This was co...

Deputy General Manager of the state owned ITN station, Sudharman Radaliyagoda who is under a police warrant to be arrested for the past one year and 10 months was yesterday seen walking freely with Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa.

The Rajapaksa government is engaged in attempts to transfer Matale Magistrate Chathurika de Silva.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper's top aide has resigned over his role in a growing expenses scandal.

Supreme Court has held that the two-finger test on a rape victim violates her right to privacy, and asked the government to provide better medical procedures to confirm sexual assault.

THE Coalition Government is under pressure to prevent Sri Lanka attending a Commonwealth event in Glasgow designed to commemorate the start of the First World War.