A young woman from the indigenous community, who had experienced cruelty as a domestic servant at the hands of her Saudi employers, returned home yesterday (03).

University lecturers who had gone abroad for higher studies and on seven-year leave owe nearly Rs. 2,000 million to the state after failing to report back for duty, COPE has been told.

Russian strikes on Ukraine's southern Kherson region killed 21 people and wounded dozens on Wednesday, Kyiv said, as authorities introduced a curfew in the main city of Kherson starting Friday.

The High Commission of India in Colombo has organized a Special Exhibition on India’s rich Buddhist Heritage as a part of the Buddha Rashmi National Vesak Festival at Seemamalakaya, Gangaramaya Temple in Colombo.

President Ranil Wickremesinghe has left for the United Kingdom to attend the coronation of King Charles III.

A protest has taken place in northern province against repressions of the media despite government assurances of ensuring press freedom.

The Department of Probation and Childcare plans to set up ‘infant receiving counters’ to take-in unwanted newborns below three-months of age.

The Colombo High Court has permitted the attorney general to amend the charge sheet filed against Colombo’s Swiss embassy staffer Garnia Bannister Francis, who was allegedly abducted in 2019.

The government is planning to brand anyone among the 22 million Sri Lankans as terrorists at its will for political reasons by replacing the PTA with an anti-terrorism act that goes against democracy and is slavish, charged opposition leader Sajith Premadasa today (03).

Local universities yesterday (02) introduced a number of their innovations under a research commercialization programme.