President Ranil Wickremesinghe is scheduled to deliver a special statement at 8 p.m. tomorrow (01) regarding the measures being taken by the government over the past nine months to revive the economy and Sri Lanka’s future social, economic, and...
The majestic tusker Nadungamuwe Raja who carried the sacred tooth relic of the Kandy Sri Dalada Maligawa during the Easla pageant passed away during the early hours of this morning. The animal was 69 years at the time of...
The principal of Mahinda College Galle has complained to the police that an unknown person pushed him down and assaulted him in front of his official residence last night.
The incident took place around 11.30 p.m. on Friday, according to...
The Colombo Chief Magistrate’s Court today ordered the Court Registrar that the Government Analyst’s report pertaining to the death of businessman Dinesh Shafter be forwarded to the panel of medical experts who were appointed to perform a fresh postmortem...
The Indian Ocean nation defaulted on its sovereign debt in May 2022, plunging the country into economic and political chaos.
The Colombo government secured a $2.9bn (£2.4bn) International Monetary Fund bailout in principle the following September.
But the cash will not...
Criminal proceedings were started in the Colombo Magistrates Court yesterday for the arrest of former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, several members of parliament of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna(SLPP) and the police for their alleged involvement in the violence...
The two cases filed against Shashi Weerawansa, the wife of National Freedom Front (NFF) Leader and Minister Wimal Weerawansa over an incident where Mrs. Weerawansa had fraudulently obtained two passports including a diplomatic passport by submitting forged documents to...
Colombo:
Sri Lankan customs officers have seized 206 live star tortoises, which are listed as an endangered species, that were being smuggled to Malaysia in boxes labelled as "dried seafood", the largest such capture since 2015.
The Biodiversity, Cultural and...
The former Ambassador to Moscow, Udayanga Weeratunga, who arrived at the criminal investigations department in connection with the MIG fighter jet deal that created a controversy in Sri Lanka, told reporters the deposed President, Gotabaya Rajapksa, is likely to...
Based on information derived from a coordinated intelligence operation conducted by the Sri Lanka Navy and Police Narcotic Bureau, a drug-carrying local multiday fishing trawler was intercepted by SLCG Samudraraksha.
The intercepted local multiday fishing trawler was escorted to the...
President Ranil Wickremesinghe has directed the Secretary to the President, Saman Ekanayake, to initiate a full-scale investigation into the resignation of Mulaitivu Magistrate T. Saravanaraja, who said he was resigning because of death threats.
Mulaitivu Magistrate was inquiring into the...
Sri Lankan international cricketer Danushka Gunathilaka has been found not guilty of sexual assault by a Sydney judge who said the evidence established there was “no opportunity” for him to have removed a condom during sex, and that he...
