Category: Local News

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. […]

COLOMBO – Tourist arrivals from China to Sri Lanka during the first seven months jumped 144.2 percent compared to the same period last year, latest data from Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA) showed on Tuesday. […]

The first Randoli perahera of the Sri Dalada Maligawa Esala festival in Kandy will take place tonight (August 6). […]

The Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) will be filing a petition against Minister of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Development, Dr. Rajitha Senaratne, with the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption and will also be complaining to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID). […]

The teacher of Nawagaththegama Navodya School who was forced to be knelt down in presence of a local politician had been threatened with death, the Nawagaththegama Police said citing her complaint today. […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa met with Sri Lankan newspaper editors and news directors of radio and television stations this morning at Temple Trees. […]

The Attorney General yesterday filed an appeal in the High Court stating that the sentences imposed on the convicts of British aid worker Khuram Sheikh’s murder were not sufficient. […]

CHENNAI: The junior Sri Lankan cricket team that was sent back from Chennai in the early hours on Monday isn’t a case in isolation. Such instances have turned into a recurring theme in the state, with politics becoming the biggest player in the sporting arena. […]

A Matara Police Sub Inspector was killed and two police personnel and a suspect arrested in a ganja raid were injured when a tipper lorry crashed into a police jeep. […]

Terming human life very precious, AIADMK general secretary and Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Sunday said one should not turn emotional and try to snuff it out by attempting suicide. […]

With the conclusive end to LTTE terror another obstacle has emerged. Shrouded in secrecy and hidden by verbal statements, there is an underlying need to make clear and establish what the ITAK Constitution is aiming to achieve. Though ITAK is using the English term ‘Federal’ what the general public and the Sri Lankan Government need […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday had lunch with Danindu Yashen, who was rescued from his kidnappers on Friday and his family at the President’s House. […]

Sri Lanka must stop deporting Pakistani asylum seekers, a practice banned under international law, the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said on Saturday. […]

(The windows of a showroom dealing in Sri Lankan furniture in Coimbatore were damaged in stone-throwing on Friday. Photo: K. Ananthan) PMK founder S. Ramadoss said the Indian government should summon the Sri Lankan High Commissioner and demand an apology from Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa and the country’s Defence Secretary. Burying their differences, political […]

A man who was suspected to be a drug dealer was shot dead inside a saloon by an unidentified gang at Sahashrapura in Borella last night, police said. […]

Sri Lanka’s economic growth has been one of the fastest among Asia’s developing economies in recent years, International Monetary Fund (IMF) said. […]