The management of Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) has taken steps to appoint a committee to probe the reasons for the frequent break downs of the country's first coal power plant in Noroc [ ... ]

  Talks with the government to release Sarath Fonseka have been positive but  General Sarath Fonseka won’t apologies at any cost , Anoma Fonseka told the media, our news so [ ... ]

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 succum [ ... ]

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 provin [ ... ]

  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 resu [ ... ]

 India’s Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh said today his government has moved "substantially forward" in curbing corruption and improving public services delivery system.   How [ ... ]

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, E [ ... ]

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 a [ ... ]

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  [ ... ]

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 factor [ ... ]

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 politi [ ... ]

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

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 cre [ ... ]

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) [ ... ]

A plaque exchange ceremony was held on board the cruise vessel “MV ARCADIA” operated by P&O Cruises, in celebration of its inaugural call at the Passenger Jetty of Sri Lanka Ports Autho [ ... ]

  The Graduate Employees Union has asked graduates in government service not to be deceived by the statements made by government ministers that a service ordinance called ‘Sri Lanka [ ... ]

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 de [ ... ]

  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 said. Though imports a [ ... ]