Ace Sri Lankan spinner Muttiah Muralitharan has said England are poor players of spin bowling.

The Mirror quoted Muralitharan as saying that he was not surprised to see the England batters...

Australian captain Michael Clarke has said his team deserves to be regarded as favourites, ahead of the triangular one-day series against Sri Lanka and India.

"We're the No. 1 one-day team in the...

A young woman has immolated herself in Grandpass, Colombo. Police said the 22-year-old woman was admitted to the Colombo National Hospital last evening with severe burn injuries and had succumbed to...

About 126 sqkm of land remains to be cleared COLOMBO, 6 February 2012 (IRIN) - Landmine clearance in Sri Lanka's conflict-affected north could take more than a decade, experts say. "It...

Colombo (The Island/ANN) - The Economists Association was asked to comment on two challenges Sri Lanka is faced with. The first is the sanctions on Iran imposed by the US and the EU. The latest US...

Western Province opposition Leader Manju Sri Arangala says that the party had decided to oppose it as it is an attempt by the central government to take over the powers entrusted to the provincial...

JVP member and former parliamentarian K.D.Lal Kantha has said that devolving land and police powers to provinces under the 13th will never solve the national issue of the country and no result can be...

The quality standards of Sri Lanka university education is fast deteriorating owing to politicization, indiscipline and lack of modern technologies and facilities, a recent survey reveals, English...

Medical undergraduates of the Rajarata University, who have been agitating for a setting up of a Professorial Unit (PU) in the Anuradhapura teaching hospital for their clinical training, now are...

Sri Lankan defence secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa has stoutly denied he was militarising the northern region and insisted...

Three American diplomats will travel to Sri Lanka for talks about alleged civilian casualties during the...

( February 06, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) In the game of politics it is not hard to imagine how or why nations and leaders opt to use terrorism for their advantage and as a bargaining tool over...

( February 06, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) At the end of an accursed 30 year war the great opportunity to build a splendid and just Sri Lankan nation was lost to us as a result of the establishment...

[TamilNet, Monday, 06 February 2012, 01:30 GMT] Around 60 diplomats belonging to African, Latin American, West Asian and European countries, based in New Delhi were brought to Jaffna on Sunday to...

Why do I say that this letter is appropriate for Independence Day? It was not written certainly with that objective in mind and I read it on that day purely coincidentally. However its relevance is...

Three American diplomats will travel to Sri Lanka for talks about alleged killings of civilians by government troops in their campaign to defeat the Tamil Tigers, an official and report said...

Sri Lanka may avoid a costly squeeze by the United States sanctions on Iranian crude by purchasing it in a currency other than dollars, following India's lead, officials said...

Disna Mudalige The overall environmental performance is improving in Sri Lanka and it has been ranked as a moderate performer, according to the 2012 Environmental Performance Index (EPI) released...

Sri Lanka has achieved significant results in securing sustainable economic and social development, consolidation of democratic state institutions, Russian President Dmitry A Medvedev in a message...

Dharma Sri Abeyratne Rasika Somarathna and Nimal Wijesinghe in Anuradhapura Sri Lanka celebrated the 64th anniversary of gaining independence from British colonial rule in 1948 with pomp and...

Three American diplomats will travel to Sri Lanka for talks about alleged killings of civilians by government troops in their campaign to defeat the Tamil Tigers, an official and report said Sunday. ...

Opposition and United National Party (UNP) Leader of Sri Lanka, Ranil Wickremasinghe says that under the Mahinda Chintanya or Mahinda Rajajapaksa’s vision, deprived free education for needy...

Sri Lanka’s tea industry has come to a dead end due to unrest created in the Middle East. Small tea holders have been severely affected due to the crisis in the Middle East. Tea factories also...

A delegation from Tamil Nadu Chamber of Commerce and Industry accompanied by Mr B. Manicka Tagore, Member of Parliament from Virudhunagar, met Mr Prasad Kariyawasam, High Commissioner for Sri Lanka...

Mahela Jayawardene , the Sri Lanka captain, has said he will complement the big-hitting batsmen at his new IPL franchise, the Delhi Daredevils, and will try to play the role of a finisher....

Sri Lanka may avoid a costly squeeze by the United States sanctions on Iranian crude by purchasing it in a currency other than dollars, following...

Pune last evening, police said on Sunday. "We laid a trap and sent a decoy customer. Caroline is quite popular in Chennai. She has played heroine in movies- 'Rain',...

India's abject batting performances returned to haunt them as Australia won game one in the Commonwealth Bank series by 63 runs courtesy of the Duckworth and Lewis method. A man of the match...

Hirunika Premachandra, the daughter of late Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra has announced she will join active politics from the Sri Lanka Mahajana Party.The reason for joining differnet political...

London –bound direct flights from Colombo have been cancelled indefinitely following adverse weather conditions in European skies, a spokesperson for the Katunayake International Airport said. ...

The daughter of former MP Baratha Lakshman Premachandra, Hirunika Premachandra stated that she will join active politics through the Sri Lanka Mahajana...

The Health Ministry is set to amend the laws concerning fraudulent doctors who have no qualifications in the medical field stating that a minimum fail sentence of five years should be given instead...

Sri Lanka is looking for a new operator to revive the much talked about ferry service between Colombo and Tuticorin that had hit a snag due to economic and legal problems after a few months of...

Two suspects were apprehended for the operation of a large scale marijuana racket in the Bellanthara area while the Dehiwala police arrested the two in possession of four kilogrammes of ...

[TamilNet, Sunday, 05 February 2012, 08:54 GMT] MPs, peers from the House of Lords and a cross-party group of politicians endorsed the call for an independent, international investigation into...

Pune: A Tamil film actress was arrested today from a five-star hotel in Pune over alleged prostitution by the Crime Branch of the city police.22-year-old Caroline Mariyath, who is said to have worked...

The Central Bank on Friday finally veered towards IMF calls for a devaluation of the rupee, depreciating the local currency marginally against the US dollar and initiating measures to curb credit...

Dancers perform during a parade celebrating Sri Lanka's 64th Independence Day, marking the country's independence from British colonial rule in 1948, in Anuradhapura, about 80 kilometers...

President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s decision to call a meeting of all political party representatives to persuade them to nominate members for the proposed Parliamentary Select committee (PSC) to...

Two persons were killed when a trishaw crashed into a stationary lorry on the Maradankadawala-Habarana road in Kekirawa, police stated. Two other were critically injured and were rushed to...

Several roads around Gangaramaya will be closed on February 6 and 7 from 6.45pm until the end of the Navam Perahera, police...

A SLTB bus and a private bus collided on the Hambantota-Tangalle road near the Sittikulama junction injuring and hospitalizing 16 people this morning at 6.45am police...

In a forceful rebuttal to the U.S. State Department's suggestion of immunity to Sri Lanka President Rajpakse in the war-crimes charges against him in the case filed in District Court in...

if a lasting solution is to be found for the problem. All four schools of thought mentioned above have identified the problem as a mere inter racial issue. They have failed to perceive it as a...

government service not to be deceived by the statements made by government ministers that a service ordinance called ‘Sri Lanka Development officers Service’ has been approved, Lankatruth...

The Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) in its latest endeavor to beautify the Galle Face Green has uprooted the iconic Palm trees that were planted at a cost of several million rupees about a decade...

Sri Lanka has to fix losses in key state enterprises as part of polices to slow credit and arrest the loss of foreign reserves, the International Monetary Fund has...

Two high ranking officials of the United States Department of State are to arrive in Sri Lanka next week to hold discussions with the Sri Lankan President and senior government officials on the...

Eran Wickramaratne, Member of Parliament, speaking on the ‘Financial impact of the findings of the COPE Report’ at a seminar organized by Women for Good Governance held at the OPA...

The e-commerce transactions are gradually but steadily gaining popularity among the Sri Lankan business community, but the key issue is legal acceptability, adoption and recognition of electronic...