Several spells of showers will occur in the Western and Sabaragamuwa provinces and in Galle, Matara, Kandy and Nuwara-Eliya districts, today (27), the Department of Meteorology said.

A vessel carrying a stock of suspected narcotic drugs has been taken into custody by the Sri Lanka Navy on the Kusumanthurai Beach area in the North.

Steps have been taken to establish district-level committees to curb illegal fishing activities and unlawful operations involving fishing vessels.

A five-member delegation of Sri Lanka’s ruling Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) party will visit India from September 27 to October 1. The trip will take place at the invitation under the “KNOW BJP” initiative.

A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle at a roadside police checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, killing at least 11 people and wounding about 30 others, officials said, in a sign of increasing violence in the region bordering Afghanistan.

Sri Lanka Police said it will intervene solely to maintain public order when a lessor or their authorized representative provides prior notice and requests police protection to obtain possession of equipment, including vehicles.

Bribery Commission officers have visited SLPP MP Namal Rajapaksa in prison and recorded a statement over the allegation that he received a bribe of Rs. 70 million from former Krrish Directress Janaki Siriwardene.

A 36-year-old Healthcare Assistant who was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Polonnaruwa General Hospital following this morning’s gas cylinder explosion at the Polonnaruwa Kidney Hospital has succumbed to his injuries,

Bangkok’s governor on Saturday declared Thailand’s capital city a disaster-affected zone after torrential rain led to widespread flooding, while the weather agency forecast thunderstorms ​over the weekend.

The number of dengue-related deaths recorded in Sri Lanka so far this year has risen to 77.

The Department of Irrigation states that the water levels of rivers that had risen due to heavy rainfall are currently receding.

The Department of Meteorology states that an increase in rainfall across the island during the upcoming months of October and November could increase the risk of flooding due to the strengthening El Niño conditions.

A special initiative to collect five million signatures for a petition seeking a presidential pardon for Venerable Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thero commenced today (26) at the Mihintale sacred premises.

Two police teams have been deployed to investigate the explosion that occurred in the kitchen premises of the National Nephrology Hospital in Polonnaruwa.

The founder of ‘Singlanka’, a renowned name in the Sri Lankan music industry, Ananda Ganegoda, has passed away.

Police raided a luxurious three-storey house in the Nalluruwa area of Panadura last evening (25), which had allegedly been rented by a large-scale drug trafficker known as “DJ Chathu” and was reportedly used for packaging drugs, distributing them, and printing various logos for drug packets.

US President Donald Trump said Friday that he will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping again in November in China and at the G20 summit in Miami, Florida in December, following Xi’s three-day state visit to Washington.

The Department of Examinations, Sri Lanka, has officially released the re-scrutiny results of the 2025 (2026) G.C.E. Ordinary Level (O/L) Examination today (26).