At least eight political activists were injured while a police vehicle suffered damages in election violence on Sunday in Sri Lanka, said the police. They said that five people were injured in the Colombo suburb of Kiribathgoda in the morning when opposition party activists went house-to-house cam... [More]

A record number of over 450,000 postal voting applications for the forthcoming presidential election have been received, election officials here said Monday. This was the highest number of postal applications ever since the first presidential election held in 1982. Only those state employees who... [More]

The Sri Lankan government said Wednesday they will reply the UN letter which was calling for explanations on the recent statement of former Chief of Defense Staff and Army Commander General (Retd) Sarath Fonseka.     Sri Lankan Minister of Export Development and International Trade ... [More]

Sri Lanka's main parties Monday traded charges over claimed death threats on General Sarath Fonseka, the former Army chief and the common opposition challenger to incumbent Mahinda Rajapakse in the presidential election. Fonseka, the Commander of the Army when the government won the military battl... [More]

Sri Lankan former Army Commander General Sarath Fonseka is to form a new political party soon to accelerate his campaign against incumbent President Mahinda Rajapakse in the presidential polls next year, sources close to Fonseka said Wednesday. The sources said Fonseka will lead the opposition as ... [More]

Sri Lankan police have been asked to begin investigation on an alleged plot to assassinate former Army Commander General Sarath Fonseka as reported in a newspaper. Lakshman Hulugalla, the director general of Media Center for National Security told reporters on Saturday that the report carried in a... [More]

Sri Lankans were shocked to see a police constable assaulting a mentally ill youth and forcing him to die by drowning in the shallow sea in Colombo on Thursday. A video footage released by local TV stations and websites showed that the youth was chased into the sea and beaten with wooden poles by t... [More]

One 12-year-old girl succumbed to her injuries Friday afternoon after 13 civilians were injured in a van explosion in Sri Lanka's central district of Kurunegala on Friday morning, said the police.     Police spokesman Nimal Mediwaka told reporters that the bomb explosion happened a... [More]

A ruling party provincial politician was arrested in Sri Lanka's southern town of Galle on Monday, police spokesman Nimal Mediwaka said.     Mediwaka told reporters that Nishantha Muthuhettigama, a candidate from the ruling United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA) for the southern pr... [More]

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse said Friday that Sri Lanka and China are tested friends and his country is gratitude on China's assistance to Sri Lanka in its economic and social development.     Rajapakse made the remarks when he met the visiting delegation of the Communist... [More]

Sri Lanka's police have arrested atop woman member of the defeated Tamil Tiger rebels, a local radio station reported on Tuesday. The Sri FM radio quoted police sources as saying that the woman who had worked in the political division of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was arrested in ... [More]

The former Tamil Tiger rebels now living in government-run welfare camps pose a serious threat to national security if allowed to leave the camps, the top defense official Gotabhaya Rajapakse was quoted in a press report here Monday.     Independent English language daily The Island... [More]

No group would be allowed to carry arms in the run-up to the local council election next month in the Northern Province in Sri Lanka, the police said on Monday.     The Jaffna Municipal Council and Vavuniya Urban Council are to go to polls on Aug. 8, the first elections since the go... [More]

Sri Lankan police spokesman Ranjith Gunasekera said here Sunday that the police would crack down on armed groups operating in the island's east.     Gunasekera was referring to Saturday's end of a deadline for extremist armed groups operating in the eastern Batticaloa and Ampara dis... [More]

The military in Sri Lanka said on Saturday that a large stock of gold and jewelry had been recovered from the former rebel held territory in the north.     A large haul of gold and jewelry were discovered at the northeastern Mullaittivu district's Puthukudyiruppu area on Friday, off... [More]

  China would work with Sri Lanka to promote the comprehensive and cooperative partnership to a new height, said Vice Premier Li Keqiang here on Friday. "We attach great importance to the traditional friendship with Sri Lanka," Li told visiting Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Rohitha ... [More]

All major opposition parties in Sri Lanka have heeded a government call to join its development and reconciliation effort in view of the end of the island's long drawn-out civil war, government and party officials said Thursday. The parties attended the All Party Committee for Development and Rec... [More]

Sri Lankan opposition parliamentarians have sought the island's Supreme Court intervention, claiming that the government had denied access to them to visit the internally displaced camps in the north.     At least three MPs filed action in the Supreme Court on Thursday, court offici... [More]

Swarnam and Shashi Master, two senior leaders of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebels were killed in the fight, defense officials said Saturday. Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara, the military spokesman, confirmed the two deaths. The two leaders were killed at Kariyalamullavaikkal west... [More]

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse told a visiting group of British parliamentarians not tobe misled by pro-Tamil Tiger rebel propaganda.       A press release from Rajapakse's office said that the President invited the British visitors to make their own assessment of the ... [More]