Category: Local News

Indian Congress MP and former Union Minister Shashi Tharoor flagged India’s concerns over China’s presence in Sri Lanka

US Ambassador Atul Keshap yesterday extended his condolences on the passing away of the Most Venerable Aggamaha Panditha Davuldena Sri Gnanissara Mahanayake Thera of the Amarapura Sect.

Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) has urged Qatari nationals not to travel to Sri Lanka due to health reasons.

The entire country is likely to face a 24-hour power cut from midnight tomorrow due to a strike by the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) workers, who are demanding the rectification of their salary anomalies.

Sri Lanka will not break with its violent past until it reckons with the cruel history of enforced disappearance and delivers justice to as many as 100,000 families who have spent years waiting for it, Amnesty International said in a new report.

The Department of Registration of Persons has taken steps to issue smart Identity Cards by the end of June replacing the ordinary identity card

Financial records of eight political parties released by the Elections Commissioner through a RTI request put forward by Transparency International Sri Lanka (TISL), has shown the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) to be the most financially secure and asset rich party among the main political parties.

Colombo Fort Magistrate Lanka Jayaratne today refused to grant bail for MP Wimal Weerawansa on exceptional circumstance of his daughter being admitted to a hospital.

State Pharmaceutical Corporation Managing Director H.M.M. Rumie denied the reports that 53 varieties of medicines imported by the Corporation will expire between March and September.

Mahanayaka of Amarapura Maha Nikaya Most Venerable Aggamaha Pandita Davuldena Sri Gnanissara Maha nayaka thero has passed away.

Six Indian national, who attempted to smuggle 13.5 kilogrammes of heroin into the country in a trawler, were arrested by the Navy in the Northern sea area last night.

Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe spoke to WION’S Padma Rao Sundarji in an exclusive interview: Excerpts:

Finance Minister Ravi Karunayake contends the country is moving forward while dogs can only bark as a set of ‘double-gamers’ are earmarked for dismissal

Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAWD) has settled in signing a KD five million loan agreement with Sri Lanka, for financing the development of the Kalu Ganga region.

The Sri Lankan rupee ended stronger on Friday, helped by inward remittances and selling of the greenback by exporters ahead of the festival season, but the gains were capped by dollar demand from a foreign bank in late trade, dealers said.

Customs officers detected 1.4 kilograms of heroin worth Rs.14 million left in a flight that arrived from Dubai this morning, Customs Media Spokesmen Dharmasena Kahandawa said.