Category: Local News

Two new State Ministers and five Deputy Ministers were sworn in before President Maithripala Sirisena at the Presidential Secretariat, today.
The list of new ministers is as follows:

Postal services have come to a standstill owing to the strike launched by postal workers based on several demands, the United Postal Trade Unions’ Front said.

If the authorities fail to provide a favourable response, the CEB Engineers who are currently on a work to rule campaign will decide to suspend work at the Norochcholai coal power plant today, said the CEB Engineers’ Union President Athula Wanniarachchi.

Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) cannot be build by just changing the positions, says former President Mahinda Rajapaksa.

Sri Lanka is making steady progress towards the goal of mine free status and remains hopeful of completing mine action by 2020, Sri Lanka’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva Ambassador A.L.A. Azeez said.

MP Dayasiri Jayasekara has arrived at the Criminal Investigation Department a while ago, to give a statement over accepting funds from a company affiliated to the Perpetual Treasuries Limited (PTL) owned by Arjun Aloysius.

Construction work on 724 new model villages have begun throughout the country under the ‘Udagam’ housing programme, Housing and Construction Minister Sajith Premadasa said.

Former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa participated in an Ifthar celebration on Friday (8) at a leading Colombo hotel.

President Maithripala Sirisena yesterday requested Britain to have London-based LankaeNews Editor Pradeep Sandaruwan Senadheera arrested or sent back to Sri Lanka. He made the request during a 30-minute a meeting with British High Commissioner James Dauris whom he summoned to his Paget Road residence.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said that former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who created a world record through unfettered borrowings, should tell the country how he proposes to make his claim to reduce taxes by 20% a reality, if he is returned to power.

Two members of an underworld gang were killed during a shootout with the Police Special task Force.

A former vice chancellor of the South Eastern University facing a list of charges currently being investigated by the University Grants Commission, has ironically taken oaths as an MP last morning, Higher Education and Cultural Affairs Minister Dr.Wijayadasa Rajapakshe told Parliament yesterday.

Veteran teledrama, film script writer, novelist and journalist, Somaweera Senanayake has passed away at a private hospital in Colombo.

State Minister Sujeewa Senasinghe, who was accused of receiving monies from the W.M. Mendis Company affiliated to the Perpetual Treasuries Ltd. (PTL) said today that he would donate the three million rupees his campaign team had obtained to social welfare if Speaker Karu Jayasuriya or a Chief Prelate asked him to do so.

The price of kerosene will be reduced by Rs. 25 to Rs. 30 per litre with effect from next Monday, State Minister Dilip Wedaarachchi said.

Three months after Sri Lanka was rocked by deadly anti-Muslim riots fuelled by online vitriol, Facebook is training its staff to identify inflammatory content in the country’s local languages.