Category: Local News

Minister of Internal Transport Ranjith Maddumabandara says that it has been revealed that the SLTB is yet to receive money for the buses they provided for rallies of the UPFA during the presidential election.

Police Spokesman Ajith Rohana said three people were arrested yesterday in connection with the assault, on Sunday, of SLFP Pradeshiya Sabha member Arumugam Pushpakumara in Agalawatte.

State Minister of Aviation Faizer Mustapha has ordered the cancellation of licenses of all Duty Free shops at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) premises in Katunayake, the Government Info Department said.

BEIJING: China will suffer heavy losses if the new Sri Lankan government halts the $ 1.5 billion Colombo Port city, bringing to fore the need for restraint in India-China competition in economic sector in small countries, an official daily said here today.

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Tuesday said the new government will restore democratic checks and balances after a decade of increasingly authoritarian rule under former president Mahinda Rajapaksa.

President Maithripala Sirisena arrived at the Parliament, a short while ago, and the Parliament will meet for the first time since the Presidential election on 8 January. […]

Embattled former Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa’s country home in the southern province has been raided by police who were looking for a luxury sports car but the search drew a blank. […]

With a new government taking office in Sri Lanka, Prime Minister Narendra Modi may travel to Colombo in March. If he does go, it will be the first state visit by an Indian PM since Rajiv Gandhi’s trip in 1987. […]

With Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) engineers about to get a staggering 79.29% salary increment (or an increase of Rs. 127,980 each) other unions including accounts and human resources personnel are planning to take on the powerful engineers’ union. There are about 1,300 engineers in the CEB. […]

Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera met Prime Minister Narendra Modi at his office on Monday. Reportedly, Samaraweera is carrying an invite for PM Modi to visit the island nation. […]

President Maithripala Sirisena has appointed the following Secretaries to the new Ministries  today (19) while Mr. E.M.S.B. Ekanayake has been appointed as Secretary to the Prime Minister and Mr.Sumith Abeysinghe as Secretary to the Cabinet of Ministers. […]

Former Deputy Minister Dulip Wijesekara and the Chairman of the Biyagama Pradeshiya Sabha were arrested following an alleged assaulting incident on the Presidential election day, the police said. […]

Sri Lanka’s national airline on Saturday announced it will stop all flights to the country’s second international airport built and named after Mahinda Rajapakse. […]

Sri Lanka’s election was won by its people, the country’s new Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera said in a sharp response to a Reuters report that the R&AW station chief in Colombo had been “expelled” for helping the Opposition to victory in the island nation. […]

The government has decided to halt the Deyata Kirula Exhibition with immediate affect while only the development activities launched coinciding with the programme will be carried out. […]

Sri Lanka expelled the Colombo station chief of India’s spy agency in the run-up to this month’s presidential election, political and intelligence sources said, accusing him of helping the opposition oust President Mahinda Rajapaksa. […]