Retired Air Vice Marshal Sampath Sanjeewa Thuyacontha has filed a fundamental rights petition in the Supreme Court seeking an order for the annulment of his being blacklisted by the Commander of the Air Force.

A Tamil party has rejected an offer made by the president to negotiate a settlement to their national issue within a unitary Sri Lanka.

MP Prof. G.L. Peiris has asked Central Bank governor Dr. Nandalal Weerasinghe to explain allegations made by justice minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe that a person named Chamara Gunasekera has accepted a bribe from the insurer of the sunken tanker MV X-Press Pearl.

Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) MP Vadivel Suresh who is on a collision course with the party is to decide on his political fate today (03) after meeting a representative of president Ranil Wickremesinghe and also leader of the opposition Sajith Premadasa.

Sri Lanka’s leading organisation for the protection of Prisoner’s rights has won a major legal battle.

The petition filed by state minister Diana Gamage against the Samagi Jana Balawegaya’s decision to annual her parliamentary seat has been fixed for argument by the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Lanka Council, a SLPP breakaway group, held its May Day rally at Hyde Park in Colombo under the theme of opposing the rule that sells the country.

National Colleges of Education will this year start training teachers on providing sex education to schoolchildren, said the Education Ministry.

Cuba's communist government has cancelled Monday's traditional May Day parade because of acute fuel shortages.

Certain skin whitening creams are very harmful to health, warns the Colombo district Consumer Affairs Authority.