Tamil politicians and people accuse the Mahaweli Authority of partitioning the Wanni land for distribution among Sinhalese businessmen.
The prevailing drought could result in a food shortage in the future, warns the Agriculture Ministry.
The world famous cave paintings at Dambulla Temple are being threatened by a fungi infection.
Yet another attempt by the Navy has been thwarted as it tried to take over a private land to build a new checkpoint in Jaffna.
Officials of a foreign diplomatic mission in Colombo are exerting pressure on Sri Lanka over the tenderfor the printing of a digital national identity card, said government sources.
The statue of late actor-turned-politician Vijaya Kumaratunga, which is established in front of Dehiwala Public Market, has reportedly been damaged.
Myanmar's junta says it has pardoned ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi for some of the offences she denies - more than two years after she was detained as part of a military coup.
As a party that was challenged to face the grassroots voters, the SLPP has now completed setting up 70 per cent of its electoral boards or Bala Mandala, said its MP Johnston Fernando.
MP Namal Rajapaksa says he will personally, as well as the SLPP as a party, mediate in granting relief to farmers whose crops have been damaged.
The Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) has reacted to calls by certain politicians of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) for a general election by saying that it would fully back such a proposal.
