Sri Lanka's main business chambers have called for a Bill of Rights as part of the new government's reforms and to recognise the island's ethnic and religious diversity as an asset to be celebrated, not feared.

President Maithripala Sirisena today (04) called for national unity, saying that the country has failed to connect the hearts of people in the North and South although the war was put to an end in 2009.

Ethnic Tamil leaders told a visiting U.S. diplomat on Tuesday that Sri Lanka's new government is not moving fast enough to free prisoners detained without trial and return private land seized by the military during a decades-long civil war.

The remains of the child who dissappeared from the Anguruwathota area in Horana has been found this morning (04) from an affulent of the Kalu river.

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday sent a congratulatory message to his Sri Lanka counterpart Maithripala Sirisena to mark the 67th anniversary of the founding of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka.

BASL chairman - Attorney-at-Law Upul Jayasuriya has been appointed as the Chairman of the Board of Investments (BOI) of Sri Lanka by President Maithripala Sirisena.