The Dinka are a Nilotic ethnic group from South Sudan. They live from the tenth century on both sides of the Nile River and speak a language belonging to the Nilo-Saharan group.

Measures have been taken to resend Vidushika to the Maha Deva Children's Home for her well-being following the approval given by Kilinochchi Magistrate M. I Wahabdeen yesterday (06).

The Sri Lankan parliament will be dissolved by May end after the House passes the 20th.Constitutional Amendment Bill embodying electoral reforms, the Lankan Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mangala Samaraweera, told newspersons here on Thursday.

Tens of thousands of young women from regions devastated by the earthquake in Nepal are being targeted by human traffickers supplying a network of brothels across south Asia, campaigners in Kathmandu and affected areas say.

A TNA member of the northern provincial council had been told to report to the Mullaitivu police station to give a statement over the lighting of lamps at his home on Mahavir Day that remembers Tamils who died due to the northeast war.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) warns Sri Lanka that the country will find it very difficult to bridge the deficit in the 2015 budget, although the government is upbeat on its revenue earnings.

Former defence secretary Gotabhaya Rajapkasa says he will go to courts against the JVP over its complaint lodged yesterday (06) with the bribery commission against him and three others.