Category: Local News

Algerian billionaire Issad Rebrab plans to invest more than $150 million in the construction of a sugar refinery in the Southern Province of Sri Lanka according to the Daily News.

President Maithripala Sirisena will leave for India tomorrow (Oct. 15) to attend the BRICS Outreach Summit to be held in Goa, India from 15th to 16th October.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe will leave for Brussels, Belgium tomorrow(16th Oct.) for high level discussions with EU to obtain the GSP Plus relief back to Sri Lanka.

A retired army officer has committed suicide by hanging himself at his resident in Karandupana, Kegalle.

The disputed land in Malwana which was said to have been owned by former Minister Basil Rajapaksa will be put up for auction.

While declining to comment on the views expressed by President Maithripala Sirisena on the FCID at a function held at the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute on Wednesday

The Moragahakanda Kalu Ganga Multi- purpose Development Project will be vested with the public by the year 2018

A former Sri Lankan Supreme Court judge has been sworn-in as a new Supreme Court judge in Suva.

More focus should be placed on the current situation, with regard to human rights and minority issues, rather than dwelling on the past, the Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues of the United Nations Human Rights Council Rita Izsák-Ndiaye has said.

Recent allegations on certain sugar and ethanol sales by Lanka Sugar Company are unfound as due procedures have been followed, said the Secretary to the Ministry of Industry and Commerce T.M.K.B. Tennakoon.

The Badulla area was blanketed by methane gas owing to a fire that erupted in a garbage dump a couple of days ago. A fire erupted in close proximity to a garbage recycling unit carried out by the Badulla Municipal Council.

The U.N.’s expert on minority rights arrived in Sri Lanka on Monday on a ten-day visit to examine conditions on the island nation in the aftermath of its bloody decades-long civil war.

Singer Chillie also known as Thilanka Vidusha was arrested by the Thalangama Police today for the alleged assault of a 57-year-old man last Thursday.

Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has taken steps to grant Sri Lanka a loan of Rs.46, 622 million or approximately Yen 33,137million, to enable the government to maintain its financial stability, continue its development agenda within the next five years and achieve its development goals.

The amount of territory controlled by the Islamist militant group, the so-called Islamic State (ISIS), has shrunk by 16 percent so far this year, according to new research from IHS Markit.

Sri Lanka recently signed agreements worth USD 10 million with two companies to produce drugs in Sri Lanka.