"Investigations are nearing end. All will be arrested and taken to court," said Rajitha Senaratne, Minister of Health and government spokes...

Rajapaksa will not be given party ticket from either the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) or its broader United People's Freedom Alliance (UP...

Cabinet spokesperson Rajitha Senaratne last month said the new government was considering the release of political detainees.

Former president Mahinda Rajapaksa's government had been contemplating to introduce the bill under international pressure.

This was decided during a meeting between the Union Health Minister J P Nadda and Rajitha Senaratne, Minister of Health and Indigenous Medi...

The LTTE, based in north and east of Sri Lanka, were fighting for an independent state for the country's 12 per cent minority Tamils.

Peiris, who was appointed 44th Chief Justice by Rajapaksa after the impeachmenet of Shirani Bandaranayake, is one of the suspects in the in...

Newly appointed Foreign Minister of Sri Lanka, Mangala Samaraweera, will visit India on January 18, his first foreign tour after assuming o...

Rajapaksa, 69, was widely lauded for conceding defeat in the presidential election on Friday, even before the last votes had been counted.

Senaratne said Prime Minister Narendra Modi and British PM David Cameron were among the first to congratulate Sirisena.

Maithripala Sirisena's top aide and spokesman Rajitha Senaratne said they were also trying to locate KP and investigating reports that he h...

Sri Lanka cautioned against anyone "exploiting" its fisheries resources saying it could take the matter to international forums.

"If anyone tried to exploit Sri Lanka's fishing resources, we will resort to international mechanisms," Lankan minister Rajitha Senaratne s...

Sri Lankan Navy on Tuesday arrested 25 Indian fishermen for allegedly poaching in the country's waters, officials said.

Chief Minister Jayalalithaa has directed that talks between fishermen representatives of India and Sri Lanka scheduled in Chennai on Januar...

Asked about the key issues likely to figure in the meeting, Senaratne said his country would raise the issue of bottom trawling by Indian f...

India is becoming multi-billion dollar construction equipment and component sourcing base and this will be highly beneficial for Sri Lanka,...