Sports minister Roshan Ranasinghe is to notify by gazette a ban on persons over 70 years of age from holding office in national sports bodies, reports say.

A new survey by the Institute for Health Policy (IHP) indicates Sri Lankans continue to hold unfavourable views of all major political party leaders.

Leading businessman Dinesh Schaffter has died in hospital after being found tied inside his car at Borella Cemetery yesterday evening (15).

Asia Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) that owns Hiru TV and Ven. Pahiyangala Ananda Sagara Thera have been issued with an injunction in a case filed by former chairman of the Geological Survey and Mines Bureau Senarath Hewage Prasad Manjula.

President Ranil Wickremesinghe today (15) told state officials that they should make no excuses for failing to serve the public.

Colombo-based think tank Verite Research expects Sri Lanka to take up another year to restructure its domestic debt.

The age of retirement for medical consultant doctors, government medical officers, dental surgeons and registered medical officers has been revised through an extraordinary gazette notification.

State minister Diana Gamage has strongly responded to recent remarks against her attributed to Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith.

Thirty-one former LTTE members who still remain behind bars should be released at least now as it is 12 years since the war ended, said MP Patali Champika Ranawaka.

Champion boxer M.S. Dinusha Lakshan had been abducted, assaulted and burnt by a group of persons in Kandy.