Category: Local News

The Sri Lanka Tourism Promotion Bureau (SLTPB) under the guidance of the Economic Development Ministry launched an International Tourism Promotional campaign to increase awareness of destination Sri Lanka around the world. As part of this campaign, 1,200 taxis will be branded featuring key tourism attractions of Sri Lanka in major destinations around the world including […]

– by Janaka Alahapperuma – (Pix by: Sudath Silva) Diyawadana Nilame Pradeep Nilanga Dela handed over the Sannasa this afternoon (11 August) to President Mahinda Rajapaksa informing the successful completion of the Kandy Sri Dalada Esala Perahera-2014 at the President’s House, Kandy. The final Randoli Perahera of the annual Esala Perahera Festival that centres the […]

The Secretary General of SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) Mr. Arjun B. Thapa called on President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the President’s House in Kandy this morning. […]

A tense situation has been reported at the Railway Department Head Office in Maradana as the workers had commenced a protest against the UNP MP’s who tried to enter the premises on a fact finding mission. […]

The country could expect continued rainfall ending the drought by mid-September with the beginning of the second inter monsoon, Meteorology Department Director General Lalith Chandrapala said. […]

What started out as the world’s indignation against Sri Lanka for the events that took place during the last three months of the war has changed leaps and bounds with each successive resolution being passed by same camps of nation. With the obvious lack of any credible proof to nail Sri Lanka the next option […]

If the Indian Navy “continues to fail to protect” Tamil Nadu fishermen from attacks by the Sri Lankan navy, the State government should then impart weapons training to fishermen to defend themselves from being hunted down on the high seas, Tamil Nationalist Movement leader, Pazha. Nedumaran has said. […]

Almost half of the suicides in Sri Lanka – 40 percent is due to depression, the majority of victims being young people, health officials told a discussion on mental health organised by the Family Health Education Bureau (FHEB). UNFPA Representative in Sri Lanka, Alain Sibenaler citing statistics said suicides remained one of the three main […]

The lack of a proper bathing space for the elephants that take part in the Kandy Esala Perahera still remains a shortcoming.Since the famous Katugastota elephant bathing place went into disuse after the flooding of Polgolla Dam under the Mahaweli project, no proper bathing place for elephants has been made available. […]

The Marine police of the Coastal Security Group (CSG) in India have arrested six people, including four fishermen, who brought 1.5 kg of smuggled gold bars from Sri Lanka and seized the gold. […]

Additional Mahiyangana Magistrate Gamini Rambakenpura yesterday released, on surety bail of Rs. 100,000 each, UPFA MP for Badulla, Thenuka Vidanagama and his brother former UPFA Uva Provincial Councillor, Anura Vidanagama, arrested yesterday for obstructing and threatening Deputy Commissioner of Elections for Kurunegala, Chaminda Namal Thalangama, who was on special election duty in Mahiyanganaya. […]

  The renewed ties between India and Sri Lanka while being welcomed cannot exclude or overlook some harsh realities. At the background of these realities are some painful facts yet the common factors if given due deliberation should ideally place Indo-Lanka talks on the proper pedestal important enough to not only establish clear ground rules […]

Sri Lanka’s government has improved its debt management, reaching its debt-to-GDP goal for year’s end by mid-year, data released on Thursday by the central bank showed. […]

JVP Leader Anura Kumara Dissnayake told Parliament yesterday that more than a million people in eight provinces were suffering without water to drink and the government had not taken steps to help them. […]

Electricity and fuel tariffs in Sri Lanka are not realistic and consumers have a right to know how these tariffs came about, Technology and Research Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka said yesterday. […]

Appropriate channels with Sri Lanka will be used to address issues of sensitive nature, the Ministry of External Affairs said today amid reports of a Pakistani diplomat, posted in Colombo, being involved in a conspiracy to target the US and Israel consulates in south India at ISI’s behest. […]