The registration of Sri Lankan females for employment in the UAE as house maids and cleaning service personnel has been temporarily halted at the Sri Lanka...
An earthquake has struck the main Indonesian island of Java, leaving more than 40 people dead and hundreds injured, say local officials. The 5.6 magnitude quake...
Wildlife officials have saved a wild elephant that had its trunk stuck inside a barrel of moonshine. The elephant was spotted close to the Minneriya Army...
Concerns were raised in Parliament on Monday (21) regarding the participation of the Police Commission Chief at the welcome ceremony for Basil Rajapaksa at the BIA....
Hirana police says that a man had been arrested in the Malamulla area in Panadura with a cache of 3,500 drug capsules amounting to nearly Rs....
The Colombo High Court has temporarily lifted the foreign travel ban imposed on former Minister Udaya Gammanpila. Colombo High Court Judge Namal Balalle has issued the...
Eighty French travel agents have arrived in the country this morning (21) to promote Sri Lankan tourism. After visiting and observing the hotel system in the...
Raids on cannabis plantations will continue until the government issues an order regarding the cannabis export process, the Police Narcotics Bureau (PNB) said. The recently presented...
Around 850 railway bridges, including the famous Demodara nine-arch bridge, are in a dilapidated state, a senior official of the Railways Department said. The official said...
Minister of Agriculture Mahinda Amaraweera has instructed the National Fertilizer Secretariat to immediately blacklist an organic fertilizer manufacturing company that supplies liquid organic fertilizer packaged in...