The Sri Lanka Transport Board (SLTB) yesterday launched a mobile and a web-based application with the timetables of long-distance buses and facilities for passengers to reserve seats during an event under the patronage of Transport, Highways and Mass Media Minister Dr. Bandula Gunawardhana.

Tragedy struck in Trebbia, Italy, as two Sri Lankan nationals, a father, and son, lost their lives in a drowning incident.

The leader of the National People's Power (NPP) Anura Kumara Dissanayake said that healing the wounded society should be given foremost consideration.

Membership of the ’80 Club’ at Independence Avenue in Colombo is resorting to court action against the Urban Development Authority (UDA) for having allegedly violated an agreement reached at the club’s takeover by the UDA.

Government medical laboratory technologists say they will resort to union action from Wednesday to protest a female microbiologist in the National Hospital in Colombo who creates trouble for them.

A senior monk has been arrested and produced before courts for allegedly having abused three novice monks at a Buddhist temple at Ginigathhena in Nawalapitiya.

Police have taken custody of a small child tortured by his drug-addict father in Wellampitiya.

Prior to leaving on a two-day visit to India on 21 July, president Ranil Wickremesinghe is to favourably consider several requests by the Tamil polity in the north and the hill-country, said Presidential Secretariat sources.

Former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa returned last night (09) from a two-week long pilgrimage that took him to Cambodia and Laos.