

US and India premiers unveil nuclear deal during landmark visit
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and United States (US) President Barack Obama unveiled a breakthrough nuclear deal yesterday aimed at...
NFF criticizes fuel price decrease
MP Wimal Weerawansa of National Freedom Front (NFF) stated that the new government had proven that it’s false promises about a wonderland...
CID questions 7 over coup
The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) recorded statements from seven people regarding the alleged coup attempt that was to take...
Nadal and Sharpova through Australia open quarter finals
Maria Sharpova will be facing Euginie Bouchard in the women’s quarter finals after they both won their respective matches in different...
Ebola vaccine set for trial in West Africa
The first batch of experimental Ebola vaccine were dispatched to worst affected countries in West Africa where it will be used in a...
Wreckage of Air Asia to be lifted
Salvage teams have begun operations to raise the fuselage of Air Asia flight QZ8501, which crashed into the Java sea last month killing...


SLAF aircraft crashes in Hokandara
A Sri Lankan Air Force plane crashed in a rubber estate in Athurugirya, Hokandara at approximately 6:20 this morning. The aircraft was...


Gammanpila Crosses Back
Deputy Secretary of Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) Udaya Gammanpila announced his decision to support Mahinda Rajapaksa for the upcoming...


UN rapporteur calls for prosecution of US officials behind torture
On the eve of the release of a 499-page executive summary on the torture protocols the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)...


Indonesian province extends Islamic law to non-Muslims
Strict Islamic law now applies to non-Muslims in the Indonesian province of Bandah Aceh. Of Indonesia's 34 provinces, Banda Aceh is the...