An operation is underway to identify police officers who maintain links with organized criminals and drug dealers in the western and southern provinces.

The SJB-led alliance will be unveiled on 05 April, said the party’s deputy national organizer and spokesman S.M. Marikkar.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has called for the independence of the government budget in the same manner the Central Bank was freed of control.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday (31) slammed the Congress for "callously" giving away the Katchatheevu island to Sri Lanka in the 1970s.

President Ranil Wickremesinghe says that the outmoded film corporation would be transformed using modern technology, and it would be developed into a film and teledrama industries development company in Sri Lanka.

Around one million voters have been newly-registered for the presidential polls due this year, said director general of the Election Commission Saman Sri Ratnayake.

Minister Mahinda Amaraweera says he, together with State Minister Lasantha Alagiyawanna and MP Duminda Dissanayake will take legal action against their removal from the posts they held in the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP).

The Ministry of Health has launched an investigation following the tragic death of a 50-year-old patient at Ragama Teaching Hospital shortly after receiving a vaccine.

Justice minister Wijeyadasa Rajapaksa is said to be favourably considering a request by the SLFP to run for the presidency under an alliance to be formed by that party.

Dayasiri Jayasekara has been invited back to the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) with an offer of its senior deputy chairman position.