Category: Local News

Today is the 63rd anniversary of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party which has emerged as the major political party of the country under and able and visionary leadership of President Mahinda Rajapaksa. […]

COLOMBO (Reuters) – A Sri Lankan court on Monday gave permission to authorities to send back scores of Pakistani asylum seekers, after the government said they were a threat to the island’s security and public health. […]

– by Janaka Alahapperuma – Pix by: Sudath Silva – Mahindodaya Technological Laboratories (MTL) established at the Obbegoda Central College and Bakinigahawela Muslim Central College in Moneragala were vested with the students under the patronage of President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Sunday (31). […]

Lawyer and senior trade union activist Bala Tampoe passed away at the age of 92 in a private hospital this afternoon. He was the General Secretary of the Ceylon Mercantile, Industrial and General Workers Union and a member of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP). […]

Veteran playwright, teledrama director, script writer and actor Bandula Vithanage has passed away at the age of 74. […]

For too long TNA and other remnants of the LTTE propaganda machine have escaped public indignation for irresponsibly using their political privileges to make public statements and attempt to create ill-will and excite hatred amongst communities. The letter signed by 33 members of the Tamil National Alliance representing the Northern and Eastern provincial council to […]

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had told a delegation of the Sri Lankan Tamil National Alliance (TNA), when the latter met him in New Delhi on August 23, that India would be 100 per cent with the Tamils of Sri Lanka. […]

SriLankan Airlines, the national carrier of Sri Lanka and the newest member of the oneworld global airline alliance, celebrates thirty-five years of flying, at the Airline Centre in Katunayake, today. […]

The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) has said it would file a petition at the Human Rights Commission on tomorrow citing the Elections Commissioner Mahinda Deshapriya as a respondent. […]

Its been 5 years now and while there’s no shortage of people coming forward to make their predictions on the number of dead during the last stages of Sri Lanka’s war on terror, what they have failed to do is to find a single name for the dead. If they can count them, surely they […]

It does look a bit odd that a UN existing since 1945 having done nothing to put an end to 30 years of LTTE terror, suddenly gears into action under the stewardship of the outgoing UN Human Rights head who is spearheading an ‘accountability’ exercise after the terror group has been vanquished. With the leadership […]

The water board says that a 9 hour water cut will be imposed on 1st September from 8am-5pm in Nugegoda, High Lever RD up to Wijerama junc, Pita Kotte, Etul Kotte, Mirihana, Udahamulla Pagoda and Nawala. […]

Pakistan Air Force chief Air Chief Marshal Tahir Rafique Butt called on Secretary of Defence Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the Defence Secretariat in Colombo this morning (August 29) and discussed ways to strengthen defense cooperation between the two countries. […]

Veteran cinematographer, film and television director and producer Andrew Jayamanne has passed away in Italy, family members told media. Jayamanne was aged 71 at the time of his demise. […]

The Northern Provincial Council (NPC) should work with existing powers before demanding further devolution, Sri Lanka’s Economic Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa said on Thursday. […]

North Western Province Chief Minister Dayasiri Jayasekara who was admitted to the Badulla Hospital last night due to a sudden illness has left the hospital on his own accord this morning, hospital sources said. […]