It is reported that one of the two women who sustained critical injuries in the shooting incident has also succumbed to her injuries.

A memorial established for former LTTE member Thileepan, in Nallur, Jaffna, has been removed from the site by the police.

Update- It has been revealed that over 81 kilograms of narcotics have been seized from the vessel intercepted in the Kusumanthurai Beach area in Madagal, Jaffna.

The Disaster Management Centre (DMC) says adverse weather conditions have affected 104 Divisional Secretariat (DS) divisions across 15 districts.

The Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) says it will lodge complaints with the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) and the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) over the involvement of Avant-Garde in maritime security services...

Two Chinese nationals have been arrested in possession of a consignment of foreign cigarettes smuggled into Sri Lanka.

Tens of millions of people across the north-eastern US are in the path of a powerful storm bringing coastal flooding, power cuts, travel chaos and cancelled stadium events.

Pope Leo XIV has praised the "enthusiasm, energy and commitment" young people bring to the Catholic Church as dense crowds attended an open-air Mass in Paris.

The Irrigation Department has extended the flood warnings issued for the Nilwala and Gin rivers for a further 24 hours.

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.