A discussion aimed at accelerating the implementation of the Sri Lanka Customs Paperless Document Processing programme has been held today (19) at the Presidential Secretariat...

A fire has reportedly broken out at a tea factory located at Wathurawila Junction on the Elpitiya –Mapalagama road.

Israel and Hezbollah have ​agreed to a ‌ceasefire set to begin at 4 ​p.m. local time ​on Friday, a senior ⁠U.S. official ​told Reuters.

Sri Lanka has reaffirmed its commitment to the objectives and principles of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Regional Forum (ARF) as an important platform for dialogue...

The Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) has called for the establishment of a Presidential Task Force to combat the dengue epidemic in the country. MORE..

President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has met the Chairman of the International Cricket Council (ICC), Jay Shah, at the Presidential Office in Colombo this afternoon (19).

A territory-wide shutdown in Pakistan-administered Kashmir has brought daily life to a standstill after the region's deadliest unrest in years left at least 24 people ​dead in nearly two weeks of protests.

A senior World Health Organization official said on Friday that 75 medics in the Democratic ​Republic of Congo had been infected with Ebola and 17 ​of them had died since the current outbreak started ⁠there. MORE..

The Colombo Magistrate’s Court has ordered that the plaint filed by the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) against Member of Parliament Chamara Sampath Dassanayake over corruption allegations, be recalled on November 03, 2026.

A Sri Lankan passenger was arrested this morning (19) by Sri Lanka Customs officers while attempting to smuggle a consignment of “Kush” cannabis estimated to be valued at around Rs. 75 million through the “Green Channel”

At Takinogawa Daisan Elementary School in Kita Ward, the fire started around 11:00 am. It was almost extinguished in about one hour after burning about 200 square meters.

Sri Lanka Police has announced that the annual Perahera of the Urawatta Gangarama Viharaya, within the Ambalangoda Police Division, is scheduled to be held from 2.00 p.m. to 10.00 p.m. tomorrow (20) along the Galle–Colombo main road. MORE..

The General Manager of Lanka Salt Limited, Rathnayaka Mudiyanselage Gunarathna, has been granted bail by the Colombo Chief Magistrate’s Court.

The Colombo Magistrate's Court today (19) directed former Member of Parliament Sajin Vass Gunawardena to formally support his request for the temporary lifting of an existing overseas travel ban imposed on him, by submitting a proper affidavit before the court.

The Minister of Justice and National Integration, Attorney-at-Law Harshana Nanayakkara, states that the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) will be repealed in the future and a people-centric act will be presented to replace it. MORE..

At least 18 people have been killed in southern Lebanon following a series of Israeli air strikes overnight, the country's health ministry has said - while the Israeli military says four of its soldiers were also killed.

Two women have died in separate motorcycle accidents reported in the areas of Poonewa and Pallewela.

Arrangements have been made to import 104 new Metro buses to Sri Lanka in August as part of efforts to upgrade the country’s public transport service to a more efficient and higher-quality standard. MORE..