Category: Local News

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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…