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President Mahinda Rajapaksa today congratulated India’s Prime Minister designate Narendra Modi, who secured a comprehensive victory at the elections and invited him for a state visit to Sri Lanka. ...

An Indian was arrested by the Katunayake Airport Police today when he was found behaving indecently inside an airplane after consuming alcohol ...

Democratic Party Leader Sarath Fonseka today hailed the example set by Indians by toppling the corrupt and inefficient UPA Government and urged Sri Lankans to follow suit and save this country from the clutches of a corrupt regime. ...

The Railway Department said about 15 trains had to be cancelled this morning since most of the engine drivers and guards had not turned up for duty today. ...

The Indian government has extended by five years the ban imposed on LTTE, a terror group that was behind the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi and was decimated by the Sri Lanka military in 2009. ...

An underworld figure known as ‘Sifaq’ was shot dead by an unidentified man at his house on Sri Saddharma Mawatha, Maligawatta last night. ...

The Coastal Security Group (CSG) personnel conducted a programme on Wednesday in the Keezhputhupattu Sri Lankan Tamil refugee camp in Tamil Nadu to sensitise the residents to security perception. ...

Two boys aged six and eight were killed yesterday after they fell into a 15-feet deep water-filled pit in the Morawaka area, police said. ...

Two people were injured when Police opened fire on a three-wheeler which had sped away defying police orders in Wadduwa on the Gale Road last night, police said. Pictures ...

Opposition and UNP National Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe, who was in the US on a teaching assignment at Massachusetts Institute of Technology for more than a month returned to island early this morning. ...

About thirty tourists including foreigners had to be hospitalized after being attacked by wasps when visiting Sigiriya this morning, police said. Pictures ...

Commenting on last year’s protest by British-based Tamil groups during Sri Lanka's Champions Trophy matches at Cardiff and the Oval, former Sri Lanka captain Kumar Sangakkara said politics played a large part in a lot of things “on a tour, sometimes you can't escape from that. Nothing was aimed directly at the players. No individual player were targeted” ...

While claiming that it was ready to provide relief to commuters if the use of prepaid cards were made compulsory, the Lanka Private Bus Owners Association (LPBOA) said it was expecting a 6 to 7 per cent fare increase at present circumstances ...

A fire  is reported to have broken out at a plastic-bottle manufacturing factory at Dolekanaththa in Piliyandala a short while ago. ...

The food served at 67 Dansals countrywide had to be thrown away after health inspectors found that it was unhygienic and not suitable for human consumption, Public Health Inspectors’ Association Secretary Senarath Bandara said. ...

General Xu Qiliang-the third most powerful military figure in China is currently on a three day visit to the island leading a 25 member military delegation from China. ...

The British Prime Minister, David Cameron issuing a Vesak message sent his best wishes to Buddhists in Britain and around the world celebrating Vesak, the sacred festival commemorating the birth, enlightenment and the passing away (Parinirvana) of the Buddha. ...

The JMO of the Karapitiya Hospital, Dr L.H. Dhammi Gunasekera, giving evidence before the Colombo High Court in the Khuram Sheik’ murder trial on Monday, said that his examination of Victoria Alexandria ...

A fire caused by a transformer explosion in a coal mine in western Turkey has left 166 people dead, Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said Wednesday ...

The ban on 16 Tamil Diaspora organisations and 425 individuals deemed to be pro-Tamil Tiger, which was imposed by the Sri Lankan government in March ...