Category: Local News

One of the four albino turtles brought from the Kosgoda turtle hatchery to the Dehiwela Zoo was found dead last night, a Zoo official said. […]

A Grade 4 student of Ananda College in Maradana died following an accident involving a heavy roller at the college grounds this morning, police said. […]

FILE PHOTO – Sri Lankan Navy on Tuesday arrested 25 Indian fishermen for allegedly poaching in the country’s waters, officials said. […]

Not a single fisherman from TN has been killed by the Sri Lankan Navy since April 2011 in Indian waters, the Central Government has informed the Madras HC (Madurai Bench). Further no warships were being sold to Lanka and only Offshore Patrol Vehicles (OPVs) would be traded. […]

Police discovered 288 counterfeit Rs 5,000 notes at a house in Dalupotha, Negombo. According to the police, the stock of fake notes which would amount to Rs 1.44 million, three computers and a digital printing machine used to print the notes, were confiscated. […]

– by Janaka Alahapperuma – Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa arrived in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to attend the official opening ceremony of the 7th edition of the World Future Energy Summit (WFES) at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre (Adnec), as part of Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week. […]

FILE PHOTO – Kicking off her political campaign in a bold and determined note confronting her rivals, the newly-appointed Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) Colombo Central Organiser Hirunika Premachandra today said no-one could separate her from President Mahinda Rajapaksa as she was his adopted daughter. […]

Minister of Plantation Industries and Co-Chair of the Permanent Standing Committee on Human Rights in Sri Lanka,Mahinda Samarasinghe, had reportedly said the government will face challenges at the upcoming United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) sessions to be held in Geneva in March. […]

Parliament Affairs Minister Sumedha G. Jayasena says everybody including Buddhist monks in her electorate demand that ganja (cannabis) be legalised. Addressing a public meeting on Saturday (18) to mark the opening of a rural electrification project for the benefit of 320 families in the Saragama and Helmulla areas in Siymbalanduwa, the minister said it was […]

  – by Shenali D Waduge – The country that proclaims to be the shining example of freedom of every kind cannot escape the harsh realities that questions how far Americans are living in a free state. Tragically, most Americans do not know or realize how successive Governments have been fooling them – now America […]

Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK) general secretary Vaiko on Saturday called upon the Indian Government to intervene “through diplomatic channels” and stop deportation of 46 Tamil refugees from Australia to Sri Lanka. […]

More power cuts are in the offing following the 165-Megawatt Kelanitissa Combined Cycle Power Plant going out of commission last Friday. […]

Elections Commissioner Mahinda Deshapriya has invited all the secretaries of mainstream political parties for a crucial pre-nomination discussion on Friday (24) at 3 pm. […]

– by Shenali D Waduge – It has become a key political and imperial strategy of the West intent on de–stabilizing and breaking up Sri Lanka to attribute all ills of this country to the majority Sinhala Buddhists and vilify the ‘Mahavamsa’ the ancient Historical Chronicle (originally written in the 5th Century by Mahanama Mahathera) as […]

– by Shenali D Waduge – What can we say when 3 countries pretend they are the most virtuous nations of the world while as each day unfolds their crimes emerge one after the other? The latest in a never ending list of atrocities are images of US marines burning bodies of Iraqi’s, while a […]

Wimal Rubasinghe has been appointed the Chairman of Sri Lanka Rupawahini Corporation (SLRC), Government Information Department said. […]