Category: Local News

Former Governor of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka Arjuna Mahendran told the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) probing the Treasury Bonds fraud, yesterday (10)…

The Computer Emergency Readiness Team (CERT|CC) said yesterday it had received several complaints from mobile phone users claiming that their phone numbers had used to create fake smartphone messaging applications.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and Finland’s Prime Minister Juha Sipilä agreed that a concrete pilot project would be initiated in the field of wave energy in Sri Lanka.

MPs Namal Rajapaksa, DV Chanaka, Prasanna Ranaweera and 3 others arrested by Hambantota Police over the protest held in Hambantota on Friday, the Police spokesman said.

Colombo will be a shanty free city by 2023, said the Minister of Megapolis and Western Development Patali Champika Ranawaka.

Iresha de Silva, a directress of Gowers Corporate Services which is allegedly owned by MP Namal Rajapaksa, has been arrested on arrival at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) in Katunayake this morning.

Two people have been arrested in Sri Lanka for suspected money laundering from a Taiwanese bank whose computer system was hacked to enable illicit transactions abroad, police said on Monday.

Sri Lankan Navy arrested Puthucheri state Karaikal -based ten Indian fishermen and seized one trawler for poaching in Sri Lankan territorial waters on Saturday night.

The Human Rights Commission has launched an inquiry into a senior police officer assaulting a journalist taken into custody while he was covering the protest at Hambantota on Friday.

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has launched a special investigation relating to a cyber heist where hackers illegally transferred USD 1.1 million from a leading bank in Taiwan to two bank accounts in Sri Lanka.

The Sri Lankan rupee closed firmer on Friday due to heavy inward remittances and as a bank sold dollars for a stock-related transaction, dealers said.

The Tamil National Alliance(TNA) is genuinely involved in the processes of forming a new Constitution, said Opposition Leader and leader of TNA R. Sampanthan.

President Maithripala Sirisena says in order to make the National Food Production drive a success, the Government will remove all the taxes on imported Agricultural Technological Equipment.

One-time Chairman of the Committee on Public Enterprises (CoPE) Dew Gunasekera yesterday declined to comment on state banks, Bank of Ceylon, the People’s Bank and the National Savings Bank receiving instructions twice in 2016 to make bids at the treasury bond auctions at lower interest (yield) rates as that particular matter hadn’t been investigated by his committee.

The famous slogan put forward by former President Mahinda Rajapaksa during his Presidential campaign trail in the North was “known devil is better than unknown angel”.

The National Food Production Battle implemented under the guidance of President Maithripala Sirisena, will commence today (6th Oct.)