Category: Local News

Sri Lanka’s new government Thursday said it was cutting ties with sex scandal plagued ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn after paying him $750,000 for being an advisor to attract foreign investment.

The Cabinet approval has been granted for the proposed new National Medicinal Drug, Devises and Cosmetic Authority draft bill and it will be presented to the Parliament within next few days, Health and Indigenous Medicine Minister Dr. Rajitha Senaratne said.

President Maithripala Sirisena stressed that all the people must unite with commitment to face the challenge of creating a drug-free Sri Lanka which destroyed our society for long.

Court of Appeal has issued an order preventing Kumaran Pathmanathan alias KP from leaving the country.

Top lawyer and outgoing Bar Association President Upul Jayasuriya has been appointed as the Chairman of the Board of Investments of Sri Lanka.

Keeping in view the delicate political situation in Sri Lanka, the United States may ask the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to postpone the taking up of a resolution against it at its March session, informed sources in the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) told Express here on Wednesday.

Sri Lanka’s President Maithripala Sirisena will visit India on Feb. 16, his first state visit abroad, a government official said on Wednesday, part of efforts to repair relations with New Delhi which soured under the previous government.

At least four people including a child were killed when a jeep collided with a train travelling from Matara to Vavuniya at the Batuwatte Railway Crossing in Ragama, a short while ago.

Veteran singer and musician Sisira Senaratne has passed away today at the age of 79. He passed away at the Colombo National Hospital this morning, according to family members.

Britain’s Queen Elizabeth today extended her wishes to President Maithripala Sirisena and Sri Lankans in view of the country’s 67th Independence Day.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday extended greetings to the people of Sri Lanka, on their 67th Independence Day.

Fisheries State Minister Dilip Wedaarachchi said yesterday the European Union’s ban on the export of fisheries products from Sri Lanka had been suspended for six months.

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday sent a congratulatory message to his Sri Lanka counterpart Maithripala Sirisena to mark the 67th anniversary of the founding of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka.

The celebration of this 67th anniversary of our Independence is of special significance as it sees the launch of a new era of Good Governance in the country, President Maithripala Sirisena said in a message to mark Independence Day.

Today we are celebrating the 67th anniversary of Independence while a civilised political culture is being created in our beloved motherland, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said in a message to mark Independence Day.

Indian President Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday extended his wishes to Sri Lanka on the eve of the island nation’s 67th Independence Day celebrations.