Activists of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) are running a campaign to appeal people in Tamil Nadu to desist from the habit of eating fish, as it is a risk to human health for the chemical toxins, besides suffering of the...

New Delhi, Mar 10 (ANI/Business Wire India): Sanvei Overseas, a system integrator in the field of information technology and surveillance has bagged the demo contract for setting up surveillance at the different chungi check posts for Commercial Taxes Department, Tamil...

The Indian High Commission in Kuala Lumpur has been urged to include Tamil on its signage, as approximately 75 percent people using its facilities speak...

A limestone temple 40 feet long and 10 feet wide belonging to the Chola period has been unearthed in the Delft area of Northern...

COLOMBO: India and Sri Lanka on Wednesday signed a Line of Credit agreement for $67.4 million to fund the second phase of upgradation of the Southern Railway Line from Colombo to Matara. A statement...

New York, Mar 10: The United Nations is setting up mobile health clinics and distributing hygiene packs and maternity kits to women and children returning home to former conflict zones in northern...

 Ampara Private Bus Owners Association staged a protest against a under-world group,who is operating in the  area to demands ransom from bus owners. This group demands between Rs 20 to 50 from an...

Thirty-seven candidates, 25 of them independents, have filed their nominations for bypoll to Pennagaram assembly constituency in Tamil Nadu slated for March 27. However, the byelection is...

China is to lend Sri Lanka about $200m (£133m) to build a second international airport in the south of the island.Another $100m from Beijing will help boost the island's railway network, Sri...

An Indian charity has sent a team to northern Sri Lanka to provide 1,000 amputees with artificial limbs.Workers from the BMVSS charity, which makes the so-called "Jaipur foot", will spend a...

The arrest a month ago of Sri Lanka's former army chief and defeated presidential candidate, Gen Sarath Fonseka, along with some of his supporters, has raised fears among rights groups in the...

COLOMBO, March 10 (AP) - (Kyodo)—Sri Lanka is according high priority to mending broken fences with European countries, including the European Union, in an effort to normalize relations...

A fundamental rights petition challenging the naming of several new detention centres inside military installations was withdrawn this morning after State Counsel informed the Court that these places...

UNP and Opposition leader Ranil Wickremesinghe  officially launched the website www.ranil-wickremesinghe .com today (10) at the Vihara Maha Devi Open Air theatre at 3.00 p.m....

UN Gen.Secretary Ban Ki Moon who had lamented that SL has not lived up to expectations based on the agreement between the UN and SL govt. after the war was over , has made arrangements to send Lynn...

 The History and Archeology Department of Jaffna University has excavated a temple of the Chola era in Nedunthivu or Delft Island, off the Jaffna...

Sri Lankan religious leaders have called for free and fair polls scheduled for April in an election campaign that has already been marred by...

They were under the influence of liquor at the time of the accident and were driving a double cab. The double cab belongs to the Department of Land Reclamation and Development and bears registration...

Colombo District UNP candidate Shiral Laktilleke is being questioned by the TID since 9.30 am this morning (10th), concerning his support for General Sarath Fonseka during the Presidential...

It is a fact that no transfers, promotions, or new appoints should be made once an election is declared. However, this rule seems to be no applicable to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.As such the...

The Elections Commissioner had decided to provide 50 cents per vote for all political parties obtaining more than 1% of votes as per the law governing providing funding for political...

The Head of the UK Diplomatic Service, Permanent Under-Secretary Sir Peter Ricketts, who arrived in Sri Lanka on March 10, has called on the government to allow humanitarian organizations to play a...

Government media are facing a dilemma due to the large number of parties and independent groups contesting the upcoming General Elections. According to the Election laws all political parties...

The CID has summoned media personnel Lal Priyantha on the 8th ,and questioned him for five hours and elicited answers from him. He had been questioned in regard to the assassinations of Sunday leader...

For more than five months a group of nearly 240 Sri Lankan asylum seekers have been stranded in an Indonesian port. The stand-off began when their boat was intercepted by the Indonesian navy...

UNP Matale District parliamentarian and district leader Ranjith Aluvihare has asked the President for security, stating there is an attempt to assassinate...

The United Nations is setting up mobile health clinics and distributing hygiene packs and maternity kits to women and children returning home to former conflict zones in northern Sri...

A high ranking Sri Lankan delegation will leave for Brussels on March 15 for talks with the European Union (EU) on the GSP plus trade concession and other issues, Minister G.L Pieris told at a press...

This will be the first election in history to go ahead without an opposition, SLFP General Secretary Maithripala Sirisena said at a press conference today. He added that the UNP had deteriorated...

The Head of the UK Diplomatic Service, Permanent Under Secretary Sir Peter Ricketts visited Sri Lanka on 10 February. During his visit Sir Peter met with the Foreign Minister, government officials,...

The Kurunegala police have arrested two officers from the Ministerial Security Division (MSD) on Monday for their alleged involvement in a brawl that took place between UPFA supporters in a...

The government has agreed to the opening of an Indian consul office in Jaffna following discussions with Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao, who was recently in Sri...

UNP Moneragala District parliamentarian Ranjith Madduma Bandara has sent a letter of demand on Monday to Uva Provincial Councilor Tissa Kuttiarachchi demanding Rs. 1,000 lakhs for bringing disrepute...

UNF Galgamuwa organizer and Kurunegala District candidate Upulangani Malagamuwa was attacked by a group of supporters of another UNF candidate from the district, Mohan...

The case was filed by a group of JVPers headed by Hambantota District parliamentarian Nihal Galappaththi. The petition has called for the court to intervene in the matter and to reinstate the JVP...

Chief Opposition Whip and UNP parliamentarian Joseph Michael Perera called on the government to restore the security personnel allocated to opposition parliamentarians prior to the dissolution of the...

SLMC leader Rauff Hakeem will be provided with four policemen for his security, the Attorney General(AG) told Supreme Court(SC) today. The lawyer representing the government told courts that one ...

 Information states, a motion which was submitted to extend the emergency regulation for another one month was passed by 69 more votes today. 93 votes were in support of the motion and 24 votes were...

Canada is heading for ethnic issues very soon. Fast changing demography is too dangerous for any country and we will be able to witness total chaos in Canada in the near future. So far, the control...

Colombo, March 10 : Sri Lanka's former army chief General Sarath Fonseka, arrested over the charges of conspiring to topple the government, has called off his hunger strike after being allowed to...

Sri Lanka's defeated presidential candidate and former Army chief General Sarath Fonseka will be produced before the Court Martial this week as the gathering of evidence has been concluded, the Army...

Sri Lanka's parliament which was dissolved last month to face fresh elections came to be reconvened Tuesday for an one-shot session to extend the state of emergency.The 225-member assembly was...