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Ports Authority Chairman Saliya Wickramasuriya tendered his resignation with effect from September 1 citing personal reasons, Ports Authority Spokesman said.

A group of journalists have been assualted near the Colombo Medical Faculty Hostel moments ago allegedly by Medical students. Lankadeepa journalist Janaka Galapaththi had been attacked by several individuals for reasons yet to be established.

UNP General Secretary Tissa Attanayake addressing a press conference today stated that compared to the 2004 Provincial Council elections the UNP vote base has increased while the Government vote base has decreased. "We challenge the govt to hold a general election instead of PC polls" he added.

The Network for Election Monitoring announced that one of its observers, Sampath kumara was beaten up by a mob in Rambukkana, Kegalle and he was hospitalized with injuries.

The finals of the Clifford Cup 2008 will be worked off between defending champions Kandy SC and CR & FC on Sunday(24)from 4.30pm at Nittawela Rugby Grounds, Kandy. A referee from Hong Kong will be arriving here this evening to blow for Sunday's Finals.

A ship carrying over 3,000 tonnes of rice from India sank near the outer anchorage of Bangladesh's Chittagong port on Wednesday, port officials said.They said the Sri Lanka-flagged vessel M.V. Batulu was in collision with an empty, anchored vessel and sank in the Bay of Bengal. No other details were immediately available.Officials had earlier said the ship was carrying a Singapore flag.

Pakistan will not participate in the Champions Trophy if the tournament is moved to another country the Pakistan Cricket Board have stated. The eight-team competition is scheduled to be held in Pakistan from September 12 to 28 but Australia, England, South Africa and New Zealand have all expressed reservations about competing due to security concerns. The International Cricket Council reviewed and approved security arrangements in Pakistan last week and official delegations met with players from the four countries in an attempt to address the situation. However, their fears will not have been eased after a suicide bomber killed 23 people in a hospital in Peshawar on Tuesday, just a day after Pervez Musharraf stood down as Pakistan president. But if the ICC decide to stage the Champions Trophy elsewhere - Sri Lanka has been touted as a possible destination - the PCB insist Pakistan will not be taking part. "The Champions Trophy will be held in Pakistan and there are no chances of s

The latest fighting between the Sri Lankan government and Tamil Tiger rebels in the island's far north has killed 22 people, the military said on Tuesday. The government said its forces had killed 21 rebels and lost one soldier on Monday, during an extended campaign to flush the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) out of their northern strongholds. The fighting in Kilinochchi, Mullaitivu, Jaffna and Vavuniya districts comes days after the government claimed it stormed and captured a rebel training base with underground bunkers and also took over a town the LTTE uses as a logistics hub. "Troops killed 21 LTTE terrorists in Monday's fighting," said a spokesman at the Media centre for National Security, who spoke on customary condition of anonymity. "One soldier also died and 11 were wounded from the fighting." The LTTE had no immediate comment. Independent casualty reports are difficult to establish. The military claims its forces have en

Six policemen including a police sub inspector have been interdicted over the assault on UNP Chief Ministerial Candidate Ranjan Ramanayake last week– SSP Sabaragamuwa

Tourist arrivals from China to Sri Lanka grew by 7.3 percent in the first half of 2008 over the same period a year ago, SriLankan Airlines said in a statement.

The Ramon Magsaysay Award which is described as the "Asian equivalent of the Nobel Prize" has been awarded to a Sri Lankan student this year for his work with victims of the war and the tsunami in Sri Lanka. Ananda Galappatti, a doctoral student in international health at Edinburgh received this honor for 'emergent leadership '. Originally from Sri Lanka, the 34-year-old studies is following a joint PhD programme run by Queen Margaret University and Edinburgh University. The Ramon Magsaysay Award, which is considered to be Asia's premier prize, recognises Mr Galappatti's spirited personal commitment to bring effective psychosocial services to war, trauma and natural disaster victims in Sri Lanka. After studying psychology at Cambridge University, he returned to Sri Lanka in 1996 and set up the War Trauma Psychosocial Support Programme. Following the tsunami, Mr Galappatti founded a network of organisations and individuals to coordinate psychosocial services.

Three persons including two school children have drowned in the Kandalama tank in Dambulla today. Police said that the victims were residents of Pannipitiya, and had come to the area on a trip. The bodies have now been recovered

Health Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva told Parliament that 5,000 people suffering from renal failure have been identified in Anuradhapura.

The Police are to record a statement today from Minister Mervyn Silva over the Kelaniya Flyover incident involving Sirasa TV cameramen, Police spokesman confirmed.

The Sirasa TV crew who went to cover the opening of the second flyover in Kelaniya met with hostility from the bodyguards of Minister Mervyn Silva. An eye witness at the scene claimed that the minister had inquired whether a Sirasa TV crew was present and upon identification had ordered his guards to forcibly remove the video tapes from the camera.

Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani tells SAARC, terrorism in the region should be totally eradicated. He condemned the recent attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul.