Category: Local News

The Cabinet yesterday decided to summon the officials of SriLankan airlines to check on the current status of the national carrier.

The postal trade unions have organized a 48-hour token strike, which commenced at 12.00 am today (13).

The Government will take action against those who try to spread racism through Facebook and other social media channels, Minister of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Development Mahinda Amaraweera said.

Sports Minister Dayasiri Jayasekera yesterday lashed out at the decision to Gazette Sri Lanka Development Lotteries Board and National Development Lotteries Board under the purview of the Finance Ministry.

Sri Lanka police have arrested five people including a member of a hardline Buddhist organization for instigating religious violence against Muslims and a Muslim for defaming Buddhism, police said on Sunday.

Tourism Development and Christian Affairs Minister John Amaratunga regretted last Thursday’s incident where he was compelled to ask journalists to leave his residence.

Cambodia on Friday donated 100,000 U.S. dollars to flood-hit Sri Lanka.

The Presidential Secretariat and the Railway Department have jointly organized a special train titled ‘’Puravesi Athwela’ humanitarian train’’, to collect relief material to be distributed to those who were affected by the recent floods and landslides.

Tamil Nadu politician Vaiko or V Gopalasamy was denied entry into Malaysia and questioned for hours at the Kuala Lumpur airport for hours, reports news agency ANI.

Chairman of the South Asian Institute for Technology and Medicine (SAITM), Dr. Neville Fernando, yesterday said the Sri Lanka-Russia Friendship Teaching Hospital (SLRFTH) Hospital, constructed to facilitate clinical training of SAITM medical undergraduates would be handed over to the government by the end of this month.

Popular Sri Lankan singer Prince Udaya Priyantha passed away at a private hospital in Colombo, today (8).

The Special Commodity Levy on one kilogram of imported sugar has been increased to Rs 23.00 from Rs 13.00.

The Sri Lankan government said on Wednesday that the police were continuing search operations to hunt for a controversial Buddhist monk wanted for making alleged hate speeches and attacks against the minorities in the island country.

Some Sri Lankan banks stopped buying Qatar Riyal QARLKR=R on Tuesday, saying their counterpart banks in Singapore advised them not to accept the currency a day after the Arab world’s biggest powers cut ties with Qatar.

Sri Lanka is expected to produce over 90 percent of its drug requirements by the end of 2018, Health Minister Dr.Rajitha Senaratne said.

A man was shot dead by two gunmen arrived on a motorcycle at Jubilee Mawatha , Mattakkuliya a short while ago, Police said.