Thilini Amarasuriya who was crowned the Siyatha Facia Miss World Sri Lanka 2015 yesterday (05) will represent Sri Lanka in the 65th edition of the Miss World pageant to be held on 19 December 2015 at the Crown of Beauty Theatre in Sanya, China.

The schoolboy who was arrested, and later freed, in connection with the abduction and murder of the girl Seya Sadevmi of Kotadeniyawa, has written to the president and the IGP.

The government is to introduce a new system by January to contain the worsening vehicular congestion in Colombo city.

Society will not be cleansed of evil by killing all the thieves, rapists, anarchists, rebels and the mentally ill. Death penalty is not a sentence, but a form of revenge. The motive of punishment should be correction and rehabilitation, not revenge, says Frontline Socialist Party propaganda secretary Pubudu Jayagoda.

The Sri Lanka Football Association has complained to president Maithripala Sirisena and prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe against a statement by the Kotte municipal council that it would takeover the national football training centre facility at Beddagana, Pitakotte.

The FCID has initiated a probe on the Gampaha land where the main office of Basil Rajapaksa was built, reports say.

University of Colombo School of Computing (UCSC) yesterday (05) handed over a report on the mobile phone of slain ruggerite - Wasim Thajudeen, to the Colombo Magistrate court.