Category: Local News

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. […]

United National Party (UNP) parliamentarian and well-known economist Harsha De Silva said today the Government had got its priorities mixed up by spending a staggering Rs.337 billion obtained as loans from China on unsolicited projects including the proposed Port City. […]

Uva Provincial Council election candidate and UNP Monaragala district organizer, Tissa Kuttiarachchi has been remanded by the Monaragala Magistrate’s Court till 12 September. […]

A four and half-year-old girl was reported to be missing from her house in the Wellawa area in Kurunegala this morning, Police said. […]

The Chief Minister of Sri Lanka’s Tamil-speaking Northern Province, C V Wigneswaran, has urged Tamil youth to collect information on the deployment and activities of the Sri Lankan armed forces in the province, even as he told the Tamils, as a whole, to eschew separatism and militancy as these have proved to be counterproductive. […]

The Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) is losing five rupees from every litre of diesel and 23 rupees from every litre of kerosene oil at present, Petroleum Industries Minister Anura Priyadarshana Yapa has said. […]

Gampaha District UNP MP Ajith Mannapperuma’s left leg was amputated yesterday following a road mishap where his vehicle crashed into a side railing of the Southern Expressway. […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met for bilateral discussions at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo this afternoon. Following one-on-one discussions, the two leaders joined their respective delegations for extended talks, which focused a considerable amount on strengthening relations between the two nations in the maritime sector and at international fora. […]

Shinzo Abe arrived in Sri Lanka today as the first Japanese Prime Minister to visit Sri Lanka in 24 years, aiming to boost trade and counter China’s rising influence in South Asia. […]

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe accompanied by by a high level deligation will arrive in Sri La​nka this afternoon. […]

Four individuals including two women were killed following a collision involving a three-wheeler and a SUV in the Kekirawa Town this morning. […]

The government is planning to construct Ruwanpura Expressway also known as the Ratnapura Expressway which will be Sri Lanka’s sixth E Class highway. The 71.8 km (44.6 mi) long highway will link the Kahathuduwa exit on the Southern Expressway with Pelmadulla, a major city in Sabaragamuwa Province, Sri Lanka, via Ratnapura, the provincial capital of […]

Mr. Harry Jayawardena, Chairman of the Distilleries Company of Sri Lanka PLC (DCSL), has complained bitterly of the lack of a level playing field for the alcohol business with rampant increase in non-invoiced and tax-unpaid alcohol openly eating into the market share of legitimate businesses. […]

Representative of the Government of Japan for Peace Building, Rehabilitation and Reconstruction in Sri Lanka Mr. Yasushi Akashi called on President Mahinda Rajapaksa at Temple Trees this afternoon, ahead of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visit to Sri Lanka tomorrow (Sept. 7). […]

The import of potatoes has been suspended from midnight today because of the increase in local harvest, Finance Ministry said. […]

Indian fishermen, who were in search of three fishermen, who went missing after they had set out for fishing on August 25, launched search operations afresh following reports that a body was washed ashore near Delft Island but returned empty-handed after they were sent back by the Sri Lankan Navy. […]