The National Election Commission has proposed a technical framework to increase the representation of women and youth in Provincial Council Elections while maintaining the existing Proportional Representation (PR) electoral system.

A tense situation arose between officials of the Hatton-Dickoya Urban Council and traders at the Hatton Public Market premises when authorities moved to remove unauthorized structures that were obstructing pedestrian walkways.

Keir Starmer formally resigned as British prime minister on Monday after King Charles III accepted his resignation, Buckingham Palace said.

The Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) has called on the government to halt further action on a proposed constitutional amendment to increase the retirement ages of Supreme Court and Court of Appeal judges until consultations are held with key stakeholders in the justice sector.

The Constitutional Council has invited applications from qualified individuals to fill a vacant position within the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL).

A total of 22 schoolchildren were hospitalized after allegedly consuming castor seeds that had been mistakenly shared by a fellow student at a school in the Kandalaksha area in Kantale this morning (20).

India has approved its first dengue vaccine, with the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) granting market authorisation to vaccine QDENGA, developed by Takeda Biopharmaceuticals India.

Applications have been called from qualified individuals to fill existing and anticipated vacancies within the National Police Commission.

An Army corporal has been killed in a road accident this morning after a Sri Lanka Transport Board (SLTB) bus collided with his motorcycle near Paramakanda Junction, in Anamaduwa.

Iran said on Monday that diplomatic exchanges with the United States via mediators were ongoing despite U.S. military strikes on the country.

At the diplomatic-level forum held alongside the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, China, Sri Lanka's Deputy Minister of Digital Economy, Eng. Eranga Weeraratne, delivered a keynote address.

Newly appointed Commander of the Sri Lanka Navy, Vice Admiral Damian Fernando, has met with Presidential Secretary Dr. Nandika Sanath Kumanayake at the Presidential Secretariat this morning (20).

U.S. forces hit Iran for a ninth consecutive day on Monday as concerns grew over shipping through the Strait of Hormuz after Iran said ‌two oil tankers had exploded and been immobilised.

A government ferry carrying 133 passengers and crew capsized in Guyana with 67 people rescued so far, authorities said Sunday, as a massive search and rescue operation tried to find the dozens of people still missing.

India has amended its tax treaty with Sri Lanka to tighten loopholes in double taxation avoidance and to curb revenue leakage by preventing treaty abuse.

The Supreme Court has decided to dismiss, without taking up for consideration, a Fundamental Rights petition seeking an order to invalidate a circular permitting individuals in Sri Lanka to legally change their gender.

Ten people, including a suspect, were wounded in a mass shooting that erupted early on Sunday in a busy commercial district near downtown ​Tucson, Arizona, police said.

An individual has been arrested in the Yaddehimulla area of Habaraduwa with a stock of heroin, Crystal Methamphetamine ('Ice’), and narcotic pills.