Category: Local News

The Yala National Park recorded its highest daily income last Sunday, a Wildlife Conservation Department spokesperson said. She said there were 3,302 visitors to the park on Sunday paving way for a record income of over Rs. 3 million. […]

Sri Lankan authorities have denied reports that Canadian NDP MP Rathika Sitsabaiesan was placed under house arrest during her reported fact-finding mission in Sri Lanka. […]

The Petroleum Cooperation will discontinue the Octane 90 petrol from today and will be switching to Octane 92 petrol, said Petroleum Resources Minister Anura Priyadarshana Yapa. […]

This year will be of special significance in economic and national development as well as in the field of politics stated Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapksa in his New Year message. […]

A Saudi prince who murdered a fellow Saudi may be executed, a newspaper reported on Sunday, in a rare example of a member of the kingdom’s ruling family facing the death penalty. […]

A dead body washed up at an exclusive island resort in the Maldives yesterday where English football star David Beckham is taking a hideaway Christmas holiday with his family, police said Monday. […]

The government yesterday assured there will be no fuel price hike next year. Minister of Petroleum Industries, Anura Priyadarshana Yapa, so declared while addressing the media, and said the use of 90 octane petrol would be phased out, and would be replaced by the 92 octane category effective tomorrow (1 January). […]

Education Minister Bandula Gunawardena said yesterday that the government had not taken a final decision on abolishing the Grade five scholarship examination. […]

  – by Shenali D Waduge – The lies to create Kosovo’s ‘independence’ are many. Allegation that 225,000 ethnic Albanian men aged between 14 and 59 were missing or presumed dead was made by US Ambassador-at-large David Scheffer. It was an invention. In 2000, the International War Crimes Tribunal announced that the final count of […]

The 2014 Budget of the UPFA-controlled Homagama Pradeshiya Sabha has been defeated for the second time by a majority of two votes. […]

National Police Commission Secretary T.M.K.B. Tennakoon said the commission has introduced a new telephone number for the public to complaint against police officers involved in wrongdoing. […]

Dhakshina Paya, the newly constructed seven storey Southern Provincial Council Ministry complex at Labuduwa, Galle, will be opened by President Mahinda Rajapaksa today. […]

Sri Lanka Navy today arrested 22 Indian fishermen for illegally entering Sri Lankan waters. […]

Tamil Nadu journalist Tamil Prabhakaran arrived in Chennai on Saturday after the Sri Lankan Terrorist Investigation Division (TID) handed him over to the Immigration Department for deportation. […]

– by Shenali D Waduge – It was to liberate the people and give them ‘freedom’ that Saddam, Milosovic, Gaddafi and countless other leaders were deposed and annihilated. The ethnic groups that line up to ask those that deposed these supposed ‘dictators’ to do the same in their countries and to ‘liberate’ them have to […]

  – by Shenali D Waduge – World War 2 took place over 70 years ago but Geneva Conventions did exist and the Allies were signatory to the Conventions. The Nazi soldiers were all members of the German army though Germany did not declare war on Allied Forces – the Allies declared war on Germany. […]