Category: Local News

The government has invited the power struggle between China and India into the country by handing over national assets to these two countries, former Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa said.

A programme to distribute 1053 land deeds to the farmers in the Polonnaruwa district, under the national programme to distribute one million deeds, will be held under the patronage of President Maithripala Sirisena at the Royal College in Polonnaruwa, today (30).

The Bank of China has an important role to play in making finances and credit available to Sri Lankan enterprises that operate in the country. Bank of China can bring more and more Chinese investments in to Sri Lanka, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said.

Retired Army Colonel Don Thomas Alfred Wijethunga was arrested yesterday by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in connection with the investigation of the floating armoury of Avant Garde Maritime Services Ltd, Police said.

A Commissioner of Prisons Department Emil Ranjan Lamahewa was arrested by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) last night in connection with the Welikada Prison riot in 2012.

A 10-year-plan will be implemented to improve the quality of education in Jaffna, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said.

The UNP yesterday warned President Maithripala Sirisena and the SLFP that the no-confidence motion (NCM) moved against UNP leader and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe would boomerang on them.

President Maithripala Sirisena says that the government fulfills the responsibilities to a maximum level to protect the younger generation from the negative side of modern technology.

The Department of Examinations announced the names and schools of the students who obtained the best results in the island at the 2017 G.C.E. Ordinary Level examination.

Cabinet today imposed the Nation Building Tax (NBT) on alcohol products in addition to existing taxes.

India’s homegrown auto major Mahindra & Mahindra on Tuesday announced that it will soon begin assembling vehicles in Sri Lanka, though it did not disclose the type of vehicles to be assembled or the scale of the operation.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said Sri Lanka is seeking foreign investment from India, Japan and others amid criticism over his country’s reliance on Chinese loans for infrastructure projects.

Russia energy ministry said on Tuesday its officials have met the director of Sri Lanka’s General Trading Co and discussed a project of oil refinery in Sri Lanka.

A person was shot and killed by an unidentified gunman at Maligawatta, a short while ago.

Several Members of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) Government faction and many United National Party (UNP) members have met with the Joint Opposition (JO) in order to express their support to the No-Confidence Motion against the Prime Minister, said United People’s Freedom Alliance Parliamentarian Namal Rajapaksa.

State Minister Palitha Range Bandara yesterday said the UNP had to be restructured or 27 UNP MPs would either vote for the no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe to be tabled on April 4 or abstain from voting.