Category: Local News

Prime Minister D. M Jayarathne should immediately resign or he should be arrested immediately if he fails to divulge the name of the official who had asked for the clearance of a container which had 131 Kg of heroin, the Jathika Hela Urumaya said. […]

Senior Japanese diplomat Mr. Yasushi Akashi called on President Mahinda Rajapaksa this morning at the President’s House. The President and Mr. Akashi discussed a number of matters including progress on the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC), the overall reconciliation process and general bilateral relations between Sri Lanka and Japan. […]

– by Shenali D Waduge – In November 2002, a writer and military analyst working in Sri Lanka between 1996 and 2002 as special correspondent for Jane’s Intelligence Review and the London Daily Telegraph was given 24 hours notice by the Ranil Wickremasinghe Government to leave the country. The reason for his cancelation of visa […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa will leave for South Africa to pay his last respects to late Nelson Mandela, an anti-apartheid icon and the country’s first black president, the Presidential Spokesman Mohan Samaranayake said. […]

Eight Deputy Inspector Generals (DIGs) had been transferred with effect from December 10 by Inspector General of Police (IGP) N. K. Illangakoon, the Police Department said. The transfers had been based on service requirements with the approval of the Secretary of the Defence the Police Department said. […]

Minister of External Affairs, G.L. Peiris, breaking the silence over the vehicles imported for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) said the vehicles will be used by the ministries. […]

Some countries had to support the UN resolutions against Sri Lanka over its human rights records due to factors which affected their bilateral relationship with the US, External affairs minister GL Peiris said on Saturday. […]

Starting from the 1st of January 2014, octane 90 petrol will be replaced by octane 92 petrol and will be sold at the same price as octane 90, the Chairman of the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) said. […]

Anti-people smuggling measures the Australian government had introduced, including a ban on permanent protection visas for people who arrived before July 19 this year, demonstrated the strength of the government’s resolve, Immigration and Border Protection Minister Scott Morrison said. […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa, in a letter to the South African President Jacob Zuma has expressed condolences on behalf of the Sri Lankan people on the death of former South African President Nelson Mandela. Please find below the complete text of the message. […]

Fire fighters are trying to douse a fire that broke out a short while near the Bodhiraja Temple in Pettah. […]

The DMK has issued a notice seeking a discussion, under Rule 193 in the Lok Sabha, against the human rights violations and war crimes committed by the Sri Lankan defence forces against Tamils during the civil war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). […]

– by Shenali D Waduge – Off went Cameron to China in a huff thinking that Britain’s help was needed to prop up rising China’s economy. Lesson Cameron learnt humiliatingly was China is a great power Britain now is not. It was certainly no meeting of equals. If Cameron huffed and puffed in Colombo he […]

(Reuters) – The Sri Lankan rupee retreated from a more than five-week high in early trade on Thursday due to importer dollar demand, dealers said, a day after short-term interest rates fell to more than two-year lows. The island nation’s 91-day and 182-day treasury bill yields fell to their lowest in more than two years […]

A train engine, which was at the Demtagoda Railway Yard had automatically started at around 1.45 am today and preceded without a driver before it was stopped between Ratmalana and Mt. Lavinia, railway authorities said. […]

The mother of the deceased underworld kingpin, Chintaka Wasantha, alias Ketayam Chinthaka, who died during a confrontation with the officers of the Special Task Force (STF), had requested the government to meet the costs of her son’s funeral. […]