Category: Local News

The Special Judge of the Additional Special Court in India sentenced two narcotic smugglers including a Sri Lankan national to 14 years imprisonment and also slapped a fine of Rs 1.4 lakh for smuggling narcotics into the country, Indian media reported.

Minister of Megapolis and Western Province Development Patali Champika Ranawaka, keynote speaker at the National Chamber of Commerce of Sri Lanka’s ( NCCSL) ‘ Meet the Minister’ discussion last week said, ‘ Traffic jams burn approximately one billion rupees worth gasoline and other fuel products every day.’

Former President and Kurunegala District MP, Mahinda Rajapaksa, said the statement made by some ministers had clearly indicated how the Police were going to act in arresting Rajapaksa family members.

Yoshitha Rajapaksa, Rohan Weliwita, Nishantha Ranatunga and 2 others remanded till February 11th by Kaduwela Magistrates court over the alleged financial irregularities at the CSN.

Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s son, Lieutenant Yoshitha Rajapaksa, has been arrested by the Financial Crimes Investigation Division (FCID) and is expected to be produced at the Kaduwela’s Magistrate’s Court.

Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s media coordinating secretary, Rohan Weliwita, has been taken in for questioning by the Financial Crimes Investigations Division (FCID).

Sri Lanka’s president announced on Friday a $40 billion mega-development project to build a new city over the next 15 years in a push to attract more foreign investment to the Indian Ocean island nation.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday, in Parliament, lashed out at the media, accusing them of promoting racism.

The Cabinet of Minister has approved a proposal to increase the Special Commodity Levy (SCL) imposed on import of Mackerel Fish for production of canned fish by Rs 50 to Rs 100 per kilogram.

Bail application filed at the Homagama Magistrate’s Court for the General Secretary of the Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) organisation, Ven. Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thero, who was arrested and remanded for contempt of court has been rejected.

IRCON International, the Indian Railways’ construction company, is awaiting the Sri Lankan government’s nod to execute US$ 468 million worth of railway construction projects in the island nation, the company’s outgoing country representative, Shyam Lal Gupta, told newspersons in Colombo.

Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa had never said that he would leave the SLFP and form a separate political party. He said that a political party may be formed,but never did he say he will lead it, Lands State Minister

Sri Lanka‘s government, elected in January 2015, ended the pervasive culture of surveillance and censorship and embarked on reforms aimed to undo years of increasingly authoritarian rule, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2016.

The Embilipitiya Magistrate today issued arrest warrants on the suspects over the clash and the death of a man in Embilipitiya.

The Tamil Progressive Alliance (TPA) yesterday urged the government to stop referring to the up-country Tamil community as “Indian Tamils” and in future to refer to them as “Indian origin Malayaga Tamils” in the New Constitution.

The Missing Persons Commission headed by retired Justice Maxwell Paranagama, has requested the government to extend its term by a year from February 15, 2016 as it still has thousands of cases to investigate, the New Indian express reported.