Category: Local News

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa has expressed regret over the detention of 104 Indian fishermen in Sri Lanka and urged New Delhi to take steps to get them released.

When there is a possibility to provide lands from other places for the purpose of resettlement without doing the deforestation, taking narrow decisions the previous government damaged the Wilpattu National Park and today…

The Health Ministry is to cultivate cannabis (ganja) in a protected mechanism in order to fulfil shortage of ganja to produce certain Ayurvedic medicine, Health Minister Rajitha Senaratne said.

The Sri Lankan government would not act “in haste” on the issue of setting up a special court on allegations of violations of human rights in the last stages of the civil war, President Maithiripala Sirisena said on Sunday.

The positive developments in Sri Lanka offers more hope while many regions were facing difficult challenges at present, said the King of Norway Harald V.

Deputy Speaker Thilanga Sumathipala has been elected as the President of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) with 88 votes.

The results of the GCE A/L examination held last year had been released today and results can be obtained from www.doenets.lk and www.results.exams.gov.lk, the Examination Department said.

More than six-and-a-half years after the civil war between the Sri Lankan government and the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) ended

Pakistan and Sri Lanka are going to sign two memoranda of understanding (MoUs) for promoting trade and providing training services during Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s visit to Colombo next week.

Colombo Chief Magistrate Gihan Pilapitiya yesterday ordered the CID to launch a full-scale investigation into charges of misappropriation of funds, properties, contravening tender laws and related acts of fraud at Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC,)…

President Maithripala Sirisena said that he will commit himself to strengthen the national economy and to eliminate poverty in the country with the dawn of the New Year.

The blanket ban to restrict indiscriminate use of polythene bags at groceries and retail outlets will come into effect from today, January 1, 2016.

The prices of cigarettes have increased with effect from today (Jan. 01), the Ceylon Tobacco Company PLC (CTC) said.

This New Year dawns with the refreshing promise of a new era – one that ushers in the dividends of democracy, fulfilling the long held aspirations of the people, Sri Lanka Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe said in his New Year message.

Our common determination in the New Year should be to safeguard the harmony through the strength of unity and cooperation, stated President Maithripala Sirisena in his New Year message.

Under Rajapaksa regime, Muslims were living in a reign of terror. They were not sure how many Muslim places of worship would be destroyed and how many Muslim properties would be damaged, UNP MP Mujibur Rahman told Arab News in an interview.