Category: Local News

Leading aircraftman LAC Chaturanga GKN, who was injured in the plane crash this morning, underwent an operation at the Colombo National Hospital, Hospital sources said. […]

Former Eastern Provincial Councillor Ameer Ali of the All Ceylon Muslim Congress (ACMC) was sworn in as a United Peoples Freedom Alliance national list MP a short while ago. […]

The Opposition Leader of the Dimbulagala Pradeshiya Sabha, Ranjith Kahagalla, has joined the government and pledged support to President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the upcoming Presidential Election. […]

President Rajapaksa, addressing a massive election rally in Anuradhapura yesterday (11), said that he will not compare the crowd before him to the crowd at the New Democratic Front (NDF) rally on Tuesday (9). […]

A plane has crashed in Athurugiriya. The aircraft reported belongs to the Air Force was flying from Katunayake to Ratmalana. Five individuals were aboard the plane at the time of the incident, four bodies have been recovered from the plane crash site. […]

United National Party’s Sabaragamuwa PC member Hasitha Muhandiram was sentenced to death on Thursday after being found guilty of killing two persons. […]

JHU Deputy General Secretary and WPC member Udaya Gammanpila arrived at the SLFP Headquarters for a press briefing short while ago. […]

Former General Secretary of the United National Party Thissa Attanayake, who  crossed over to the Government, sworn in as the Minister of Health a short while ago at the president’s House in Kandy […]

Indian Bharatiya Janata Party leader L. Ganesan said that the refusal to meet and talk to the Sri Lankan President and at the same time, demanding a resolution of the Tamils’ issue was similar to asking a doctor to cure sick persons without seeing them. […]

Opposition Presidential candidate Maithripala Sirisena yesterday said that no computer jilmaart (fraud) had taken place at the 2010 presidential election and there was no room for a fraud at future elections as well. […]

Former Deputy Minister V. Radhakrishnan and P. Digambarams to support Common Candidate Maithripala Sirisena […]

The former Prime Minister of Malaysia Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamed made a call on to Secretary Defence and Urban Development Mr. Gotabaya Rajapaksa today (10th December). […]

Deputy Minister of Botanical Gardens and Public Recreation V.Radhakrishnan has tendered his resignation a short while ago. […]

Deputy Minister of National Languages and Social Integration P. Digambaram has tendered his resignation. […]

The National Democratic Alliance government should be given full credit for ensuring the commutation of the death sentence given to five Indian fishermen by the Sri Lankan government and their repatriation to India, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj told the Lok Sabha on Tuesday. […]

The Sri Lankan navy on Tuesday evening apprehended 43 fishermen who ventured into the sea from Nagapattinam in Tamil Nadu and Karaikal in the Union territory of Puducherry. […]