Category: Local News

  At this important juncture of Sri Lanka’s post-independent history there are some factors that need to be reminded to all citizens of Sri Lanka. Some of these hometruths may not be palatable to people but these need to be said and recorded. […]

Sri Lanka Customs today seized a stock of 420 MT of Rosewood worth over Rs.1 billion, that was imported from an Eastern African country and to be exported to a Middle Eastern country, at the Orugodawatta yard, Customs said. […]

– by Shenali D. Waduge – South Korea voted against Sri Lanka on March 27 at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva in support of a US Resolution calling for an international inquiry to be undertaken by the Office of the High Commissioner on alleged Human Rights violations by Sri Lanka. In taking […]

Two men are alleged to have robbed Rs.5 Million from a van transporting cash to a Private Leasing Company in Matugama this morning. Police said the robbery had taken place while the van was parked outside the Company situated on the Agalawatta Road. […]

The Sri Lankan government is showing grave concern about the large number of housemaid deaths in the Gulf countries where they come to work as domestic helps in households.

The Manageress of the hotel in Tangalle where British National Khuram Shaikh was murdered testified in court that she witnessed the Tangalle Pradeshiya Sabha Chairman, Sampath Chandrapushpa Vidanapathirana assaulting the victim. […]

A ballot paper, on which the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) bell symbol was marked as the vote, was found discarded at the Richard Pathirana Maha Vidyalaya polling booth, at Uluvitike, Akmeemana in Galle yesterday. […]

Through the Southern and Western Provincial Council (PC) elections results, the public had shown a red light to the government and implied that they are ready to topple it, the United National Party (UNP)said yesterday.Addressing the media at Sirikotha, UNP Leadership Council (LC) member Kabir Hashim said, when compared with the previous PC election held […]

Elections Chief Mahinda Deshapriya yesterday maintained that whether General Sarath Fonseka has his civic rights or not did not concern him. If the SLFP had had any objections to his voting its area politicians should have objected when the voter register in that area was put on public display, Deshapriya said. […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa led UPFA has secured a comfortable victory at yesterday’s Western and Southern Provincial Council elections with a majority of 388,977 votes in the SPC and 683,993 votes in the WPC. […]

Although the governing UPFA was able to win a few electorates in Colombo District, the main opposition UNP secured key electorates in the Colombo area, while the DPF, DP and the JVP also increased their vote base in the Western province. […]

The UPFA won the highest number of votes in the Hambantota District with 174,687 votes at the Provincial Council election while the UNP secured 79,829 votes, the JVP  39,345 votes and the Democratic Party  9547 votes.  According to the final results of the Hambantota District, UPFA has won 8 seats,  the UNP  4 seats and […]

Elections Commissioner Mahinda Deshapriya says that the Western and Southern Provincial Council polls held today was peaceful with no major incidents. […]

Voting for the Southern and Western Provincial Council polls began at 7.00am today (March 29). Elections Commissioner, Mahinda Deshapriya requests voters to go to polling stations early with a valid ID card. […]

The Queen of England, Queen Elizabeth 2 has made her choice. She has picked General Peter Cosgrove as the Governor General of Australia. Peter Cosgrove is incidentally a former defence forces chief. Though the appointment was officially endorsed by the Queen the appointment in fact was made by David Cameron’s Conservative Party. Was it not […]

The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) said today the Government was solely responsible for the adoption of the UNHRC resolution because the Government was unable to win the confidence of the 12 countries that abstained because of human right violations and the inability to uphold democracy in the country after the war. […]