Category: Local News

Susai Vaz, a country boat fisherman in Pamban, India says smugglers are constantly on the prowl along the coast looking for prospective fishermen to ferry gold or narcotics across the water. “But they know that I am not the one they want,” says Vaz. […]

In spite of the UNP on behalf of the Opposition urging the government to conduct the presidential election after the scheduled papal visit, the Catholic Church is strongly opposed to such a move. […]

COLOMBO: Heavy rain slowed the search on Sunday for victims of a major mudslide on a tea plantation in central Sri Lanka that police say left 38 people missing and presumed dead, officials said. […]

Sri Lanka has allowed a Chinese submarine and a warship to dock at its port in the capital Colombo, officials said on Sunday, despite concerns raised by India about China’s warming relations with the Indian Ocean island nation. […]

Minister Mervyn Silva’s son Malaka, who allegedly harassed and assaulted a foreign couple at a night club on Duplication Road, Kollupitiya, in the early hours of yesterday, was remanded until next Tuesday, police said. […]

At least 14 navy personnel were wounded and hospitalised after a bus, transporting Sri Lanka Navy personnel attached to the Welisara camp, veered off the road in the Meegahatenna area in Horawala today. […]

Malaka Silva, son of Minister Mervyn Silva has been hospitalized following an assault at a night club at Duplication road, Kollupitiya in the early hours today, Police said. […]

With India stepping up efforts to prove the innocence of the five Indian fishermen sentenced to death for drug trafficking by the Colombo High Court, sources told The Hindu that New Delhi was hopeful of finding a resolution to the situation that has led to protests in Tamil Nadu. […]

The government could make excuses but it should accept the responsibility for its failure to save the lives of people who perished in the Koslanda disaster, Chief Opposition Whip John Amaratunga said in Parliament yesterday. […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa arrived in Koslanda, Haldemulla a short while ago to inspect the landslide-affected areas. […]

New Delhi: India today offered assistance to Sri Lanka to help hundreds of people affected by the landslide in Uva province of that country. […]

Hundreds of people are missing after a landslide smashed into a row of line houses in a mountainous area in Haldummulla in Badulla District, early hours of this morning, and rescue missions are underway with the aid of police, army and the Disaster Management Centre (DMC). […]

A UPFA Thamankaduwa Pradeshiya Sabha member and four others were arrested yesterday (28) based on a complaint of robbery of cash and jewellery amounting to over Rs 500,000 after they entered an official quarters belonging to the Paddy Board in Kuruppu junction, Polonnaruwa. […]

The first ever night club in the Anuradhapura sacred city had been established in the vicinity of Sri Maha Bodhi and Ruwan Weli Seya, UNP Anuradhapura District MP P. Harrision told Parliament yesterday. […]

A survey by Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, conducted among the one-lakh-odd Sri Lankan Tamil refugees in India has found that 67 per cent of those interviewed wanted to remain in India. […]

A five-member committee was appointed yesterday to study the proposals put forward by the Jathika Hela Urumaya for it to support the government at an upcoming presidential election. […]