Category: Local News

Prices of diesel, petrol, kerosene and electricity tariff will be reduced by Rs. 3, Rs.5, Rs. 20 and 25% respectively from midnight,  President Mahinda Rajapaksa announced a short while ago. […]

– by Janaka Alahapperuma – Sri Lanka warmly received the President of Peoples’ Republic of China and General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, Xi Jinping at the Bandaranaike International Airport this afternoon (16 September). It is only after 28 years that a Chinese head of state engaging […]

UPFA candidates are distributing a large number of coupons for three-wheeler drivers to obtain a litre of petrol and 500 mililetres of engine oil, free of charge from a filling station, in Puwakgodamulla, on the Mahiyangana road, according to complaints lodged with election monitors. […]

China’s 21st Century Maritime Silk Road initiative presents a major opportunity for the economic takeoff of Sri Lanka and will help the country smoothly realize the “Mahinda Vision”, minister of investment promotion Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena said. […]

CHENNAI: In a departure from his earlier stand on terrorism related issues, DMK chief M Karunanidhi on Sunday hit out at the ruling AIADMK government saying that the reports regarding recent arrest of ISI spies and their activities in Tamil Nadu have created panic among the people. […]

The arrest of a third Sri Lankan spying on India on behalf of Pakistan in less than 10 months has got intelligence agencies to train their focus back on growing radicalization among Tamil-speaking Muslims in eastern Sri Lanka where Pakistan has been fishing for a long time, Indian Media reports. […]

Chinese President Xi Jinping will arrive in Sri Lanka on Tuesday for a 23-hour state visit during which he will oversee the signing of at least 20 agreements. Many of the agreements had been received by the Ministry of External Affairs in the final weeks before the proposed visit, leaving officials with little time to […]

The main suspect who was behind the abduction of four year old Thamara Keshali Bandara was arrested by the police in Deegama today, police said. […]

Upset at Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s remarks that his government will not free the trawlers in its custody, fishermen fear his stand will crush their livelihood and want the Centre to intervene. […]

Keshani Bandara Wijeykoon, the four-year-old girl who went missing from her home in Gonagama in Wellawa erlier this week has been found abandoned near a shop at Neriyawa, police spokesman SSP Ajith Rohana said. […]

Sri Lankan national Arun Selvarajan, arrested by NIA on Wednesday for spying in India on behalf of Pakistan’s ISI, has turned out to be an LTTE man. A Lankan Tamil, Selvarajan is wanted in Sri Lanka for providing logistical support to LTTE cadres. There is a lookout notice pending against him. […]

Founder of ODEL PLC Otara Gunawardene sold her entire shares in the company to the Softlogic Group for nearly Rs 2.7 billion. […]

A suspect who was produced in the Kesbewa Magistrate’s Court from the Welikada Prison had been shot by Prison guards a short while ago, while trying to flee, Police said. […]

A Sri Lankan national was arrested on Wednesday by National Investigation Agency (NIA) on the charge of spying on behalf of Pakistan. […]

– by Janaka Alahapperuma – President Mahinda Rajapaksa declared open the Colombo International Book Exhibition-2014, Sri Lanka’s largest book fair yesterday morning at the Sirimavo Bandaranaike Exhibition Centre at BMICH premises amidst a large number of book publishers in the country and overseas. This book fair will continue until September 16th from 9.00am to 9.00pm. […]

Chennai: Taking up the latest instance of arrest of six fishermen by the Lankan Navy, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa today sought the Centre’s intervention for their release, and called for retrieval of Katchatheevu. […]