Category: Local News

Right to Information bill tabled in Parliament

The much-awaited Right to Information draft bill was presented in Parliament by Media Minister Gayantha Karunathilake this morning.



No bridge to connect India and Sri Lanka – Prime Minister

Building a bridge between India and Sri Lanka was shot down yesterday at Parliament.



Sri Lanka shares retreat amid foreign fund outflows

Sri Lankan shares ended weaker on Wednesday, slipping from a near three-week high hit in the previous session, as foreign investors exited risk assets amid concerns over the country’s economic growth and rising bond yields.



Sri Lanka beefs up security at airport

Security was tightened at Sri Lanka’s main Bandaranaike International Airport on Wednesday following the terrorist attack at the Brussels airport a day earlier, media reports said.



6 Sri Lankans banned from leaving after Bangladesh bank hack

A Sri Lankan court banned foreign travel by six directors of a foundation that police say was remitted some of the $101 million stolen in the hacking of Bangladesh Central Bank’s account at the Federal Reserve Bank in New York.



Long wait for villagers of Akmeemana as impure water trickles for a few hours

Reports have surfaced about a number of villages in the Akmeemana area which receive water for only three hours daily.



Sri Lankan Tamil refugee’s family released

In a late-evening development on Tuesday, the State government ordered the release of Sri Lankan Tamil refugee K. Dhayabararaj’s family from the special quarantine detention camp at Mandapam in Ramanathapuram district.



Prelates call for probe on Ven. Sobitha Thera’s death

Alleging that the death of Ven. Maduluwawe Sobitha Thera who headed the Movement for a Just Society Head had not occurred due to natural causes, several well-known Buddhist monks yesterday requested for the appointment of a high powered commission to look into the matter.



Bangladeshi investigators to visit Sri Lanka to probe $ 81mn theft

Bangladeshi investigators will travel to Sri Lanka, Philippines and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to investigate the theft of $ 81 million from its accounts, a news report on AFP said.



Stealing was main policy and philosophy of former govt – Chandrika

Former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga says that stealing was the main policy and philosophy of the previous government under Mahinda Rajapaksa and conceded that corrupt individuals still occupy certain sections of the incumbent administration.



CID Instructed Not To Seize Temple Jumbos

The CID has been instructed by a high ranking official of the government, not to take into custody the elephant calves that are being kept illegally at the Colombo Gangaramaya Temple and the Kataragama Temple.



President reiterated stance against foreign judges in probe

President Maithripala Sirisena has reiterated that he will not have international judges on the bench for the investigation into allegations of human rights violations during the final stages of the war between government troops and the LTTE.



Another transformer catches fire

An explosion following by a fire has broken out at a CEB grid substation in Kotugoda, CEB said a short while ago.



Serious security threat to electricity network – Deputy Power Minister

Deputy power minister has warned of a “serious security threat” to its electricity grid as engineers finally managed to get the Norochcholai power plant to function fully this morning.



I will never quit politics even if whole family is jailed: MR

While accusing the government of doing politics of vendetta against him and his family, former President Mahinda Rajapaksa said that he would not quit politics even if his entire family is imprisoned.



Joint Opposition calls on ‘victims’ of UNP to join today’s rally

Parliamentarians attached to the Sri Lanka Freedom Party’s joint opposition yesterday said that they hoped the party wouldn’t take disciplinary action against them for taking part in the rally…