Category: Local News

Former president Mahinda Rajapaksa said that he felt proud when he saw President Maithripala Sirisena speaking in Sinhala at the General Assembly of the United Nations in New York early few weeks ago.

Three Customs officials were arrested yesterday while allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs. 125 million. According to Bribery Commission sources this is the largest ever recorded case of bribe taking, detected by them.

Deputy Minister of Highways and Investment Promotion, Eran Wickramaratne said if the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report on the Colombo Port City Project is satisfactory, the project will resume without any issue.

The Colombo High Court today acquitted Danuna Tilakaratne from the Hicorp fraud case.

Sri Lanka said on Wednesday it has hired two new executioners to replace the previous hangman, who quit soon after seeing the gallows for the first time, even though capital punishment has not been carried out there for almost 40 years.

The Presidential Commission of Inquiry to Investigate and Inquire into Serious Acts of Fraud, Corruption and Abuse of Power, State Resources and Privileges (PRECIFAC), has summoned former President Mahinda Rajapaksa for questioning today.

Volkswagen’s plans to set up an assembly plant in Kuliyapitiya, Kurunegala will go ahead despite its controversy in Europe.

The Sri Lankan navy on Wednesday apprehended nine Tamil Nadu fishermen and their boat on charges of trespassing into the territorial waters of the island nation, marine police sources at Mandapam in India has said.

Gampola Vidanage Samantha Kumara alias Wele Suda was sentenced to death by Colombo High Court today on charges of possessing of 7.05 grams of heroin in Mount Lavinia in 2008.

Speaker Karu Jayasuriya is reported to have told a delegation of civil society representatives yesterday that he would introduce a Code of Conduct for MPs soon.

With duty for electric vehicles (EV) maintaining around 5 percent, registration of EVs in September has recorded a heavy toll.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe has said that a Compassionate Council will be established to solicit advice and guidance for all religions respecting the proposals of other countries.

General Secretary of the Bodu Bala Sena, Ven, Galagodaatte Gnanasara Thera, who was issued an arrest warrant for not appearing in court, surrendered to the Fort Magistrate’s Court a short while ago.

D.M.S. Dissanayake, Senior Assistant Secretary in the Defence Ministry and the officer-in-charge of Civil Security, has come under investigation over the controversy surrounding the Avant Garde Maritime Services Limited.

An arrest warrant has been issued against General Secretary of Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) Galagodaaththe Gnanasara Thera, a short while ago.

Sri Lanka’s finance minister has signed an extraordinary gazette to change the basis on which customs calculates the value of certain motor vehicles, therefore prices of some vehicles may increase by almost 50 percent, car dealers said.