The United States has issued a security message to its citizens living or traveling in Sri Lanka, in view of the forthcoming parliamentary polls in the island.
The CID yesterday took into custody two former LTTE cadres for questioning over the disappearance of senior journalist Prageeth Ekneligoda who went missing since 2010.
Chandrika Kumaratunga will never support the Sri Lanka Freedom Party as long as there are corrupt and unwanted people in it, said Minister of Ports Shipping and Aviation Arjuna Ranatunga.
Deputy Women’s Affairs Minister Vijayakala Maheswaran while insisting that her vehicle did not carry a poster exhibiting the Tamil Eelam map yesterday said that she has never supported the call for Tamil Eelam.
The Sri Lankan rupee ended weaker on Thursday as a state-run bank, through which the central bank usually directs the market, raised the currency’s peg against the dollar by 25 cents to let the exchange rate depreciate to 133.75, dealers said.
The Director General of Health Services, Dr. Palitha Mahipala stated that the Sri Lankan instant noodles is safe for the human consumption which was declared as not safe early.
Former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, in a special statement issued yesterday, urged the nation to defeat the elements trying to reverse the “January 08” mandate and vote for honest and respectable candidates.
Sri Lankan shares jumped to their highest in more than six months on Wednesday on hopes of political stability after the Aug. 17 parliamentary elections and better earnings in the April-June quarter, brokers said.
It is hard to achieve a significant sustainable economic development without focusing on the development of the export sector, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said.
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has been providing equipment and assistance to Sri Lanka’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID), which has been accused of kidnapping and torture, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported.
Twenty one passengers were hospitalized after two buses had collided head-on at Radawadunna in Nittambuwa on the Colombo-Kurunegala main road this morning, police said.
Secretary General of the Liberal Party Kamal Nissanka addressing a meeting at Bishop Lauxman Wickremesinghe Hall in Kurunegala said that the UPFA election manifesto resembles’ Santa Claus is coming to town’ and therefore it is like a Christmas hamper or a food basket
