A video circulating on social media has renewed attention on tensions between app-based taxi drivers and local taxi operators in Sri Lanka’s tourism zones, after a police officer, reportedly attached ...

The Deputy Director General of the National Institute of Education (NIE), Darshana Samaraweera, has been sent on compulsory leave over the controversy surrounding a newly printed Grade 6 English ...

A group of Buddhist monks and their rescue dog are striding single file down country roads and highways across the South, captivating Americans nationwide and inspiring droves of locals to greet them ...

A 37-year-old man has pleaded guilty to the murder of a woman who was found on a street in Cardiff, United Kingdom. Niwunhellage Dona Nirodha Kalapni Niwunhella, known as Nirodha, 32, died at the ...

Chief Incumbent of Mihintale Rajamaha Viharaya Vene. Walawahengunawewe Dhammarathana Thera claimed today (13) that a Sri Lankan student studying at Cambridge University had intervened to reduce a 30 ...

Former Minister Johnston Fernando were arrested by the Financial Crimes Investigation Division (FCID) today (5), following his appearance before the division this morning. The arrests are part of an ...

Three-wheeler drivers in Weligama have accused drivers providing transport services through mobile applications such as PickMe and Uber of unfair practices and intimidation, warning of a large-scale ...

Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) National Organiser and Parliamentarian Namal Rajapaksa said on Wednesday that the government is “digging its own grave” through its actions, while stressing that the ...

Former Speaker Asoka Ranwala and three others were injured and hospitalised today following a traffic accident in Sapugaskanda. The incident occurred in Mavaramandiya, Benimulla, when a jeep driven by ...

The Sri Lanka Society of Transport and Logistics (SLSTL) has urged the Government to develop an alternative railway route from Colombo to Kandy, warning that Cyclone Ditwah has exposed critical ...

Supreme Court delivers landmark judgment in MV X-Press Pearl disaster, orders USD 1 billion compensation and blasts failures by authorities In a landmark ruling, the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka has ...

All liquor outlets across the island will be closed tomorrow (25) in view of the Christmas festival, the Excise Department has announced. The department said the order will not apply to tourist ...