Photos show shoppers at the Colombo International Book Fair, which is currently underway at the BMICH. The Fair, which was declared open by the Minister of Education, Bandula Gunawardena on Saturday, will run until September 26.

The train services to Vavuniya from Colombo will be curtailed to Anuradhapura due a derailment reported, Railway officials said. 

Private bus operators urge the government to consider a revision of the minimum fare of Rs. 6 to Rs. 7, an increase of Re. 1. This, they claim is to enable the short distance operators to maintain their services without a loss.

President Mahinda Rajapaksa plays a cricket stroke to inaugurate the Badulla Indoor Cricket Stadium built by Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC). Also present at the occasion today (August 04) were Ministers C.B. Rathnayaka, Nimal Siripala de Silva, Deputy Minister Dilan Perera, Governor of Uva Province C. Nanda Mathew, Chief Minister of Uva Province Shashendra Rajapaksa and Chief Executive of Sri Lanka Cricket Ajith Jayasekara. 

Tortured Sri Lankan maid Ariyawathie denied Saudi accusations that she is lying and her story is baseless. Ariyawathie has revealed how she was taken at 2am to the airport and how when the alarms went off at the barrier no one questioned her.

Saudi officials have refuted claims that a sponsor in Riyadh hammered nails into the body of his Sri Lankan housemaid as punishment terming that the torture allegations as a figment of the maid’s imagination.

Sapugaskanda police have apprehended the main suspect behind the kidnapping of an eight-year-old boy from Makola. The suspect had been nabbed in Kurunegala and is said to be an employee of the boy’s father.

An Army truck has skidded off the road and gone down a precipice at Galagedara killing one soldier, Military spokesman Ubaya Medawala told Ada Derana today. 

More than three dozen Lankan Tamil migrants have been segregated from 492 others who arrived by boat for questioning by police on suspicion of being linked to the LTTE, or other inadmissible groups, including war criminals.

Jayakody Arachchige Olcott Perera, a leading heroin dealer in Colombo who went underground ten years ago after evading the police, was shot dead while trying to escape from Special Task Force (STF) custody this evening.