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Aug 20, Colombo: Sri Lanka Private Bus Owners' Association warned the passenger transport authorities that they will go into trade union action if the regulatory body fails to formulate a time-table for Private Buses in the Western Province within a fortnight.

Aug 20, Colombo: Sri Lanka Examination Commissioner Anura Edirisinghe said that all arrangements are ready for the Grade Five Scholarship examination scheduled to be held on August 22.

Aug 20, Colombo: India's High Commissioner in Sri Lanka Ashok K. Kantha and Sri Lanka Foreign Secretary Romesh Jayasinghe exchanged the documents pertaining to setting up of Indian consulates in Jaffna and Hambanthota today at the Ministry of External Affairs in Colombo.

Aug 20, Colombo: The 3rd International Congress of the Society of South Asian Archaeology (SOSAA) commenced this morning at the sociology faculty auditorium of the Kelaniya University with the participation of Vice Chancellor of the Kelaniya University Prof. Sarath Amunugama as the chief guest.

Aug 20, Colombo: The Sri Lankan government says that a total of 19,271 prisoners have been granted presidential pardons since 2005 to date.

Aug 20. Colombo: Sri Lanka's Central Bank (CBSL) Friday reduced its Reverse Repurchase Rate by 50 base points while keeping the Repurchase Rate unchanged.

Aug 19, Colombo: The Sri Lankan government is to revamp the water supply and drainage system in parts of the capital Colombo at a cost of nearly 1.1 billion rupees with the financial support from the government of Japan.

Aug 19, Colombo: Sri Lanka's court-martialed former Army Commander and Democratic National Alliance (DNA) parliamentarian General (Retd.) Sarath Fonseka said the main opposition United National Party (UNP) should not limit itself to words and need to do more to support DNA activities against undemocratic acts of the government.

Aug 19, Colombo: The Sri Lankan government today (19) said it wanted to work together with the United Nations to achieve permanent peace although it had differences of opinions with the international organization on certain issues.

Aug 19, Badulla: As the hornets in Sri Lanka's famous Sigiriya Rock Fortress came to media lime light with repeated attacks on visitors recently, the local media reported another incident of a fatal hornets attack in the hill country.

Aug 19, Colombo: The Paddy Marketing Board says it has taken steps to transport the present stocks to warehouses in other areas to provide space to store the produce of the current season in the areas such as Ampara and Polonnaruwa districts.

Aug 19, Dambulla: The 4th match of the triangular ODI series between Sri Lanka and New Zealand at the Dambulla International Stadium was abandoned today due to pouring rain.

> Aug 19, Colombo: Land Reform Commission of Sri Lanka says that the government has taken measures to provide the resettled internally displaced persons their land rights.

Aug 19, Colombo: The interviews for recruiting teachers to teach in English medium in public schools in Sri Lanka began today at the Royal College in Colombo.

Aug 19, Colombo: The Sri Lankan government today (19) said it wanted to work together with the United Nations to achieve permanent peace although it had differences of opinions with the international organization on certain issues.

Aug 19, Colombo: The three-member Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) disciplinary committee appointed to probe the charges against former Deputy Minister of Highways Mervyn Silva will meet tomorrow for the first time, SLFP sources say.

Aug 19, Colombo: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who visited parliament today to attend consultative committee meetings of the Port and Defense ministries, exchanged pleasantries with former Cabinet colleague and United National Party (UNP) parliamentarian Mangala Samaraweera, at the MP's restaurant of the Parliament.

Aug 19, Colombo: Sri Lanka's Democratic National Alliance (DNA) parliamentarian Vijitha Herath today (19) lodged a complaint with the Inspector General of Police (IGP) at the Police Headquarters against the manner in which the Galle police had treated two parliamentarians and 10 others last week.

Aug 19, Colombo: A recent survey by the Newsweek magazine has placed Sri Lanka at the 66th position as the best country in the world to offer a healthy and prosperous life to its citizens.

Aug 19, Colombo: Sri Lanka's Higher Education Ministry states that 99 percent of the university curriculum will be conducted in English from next year.