Category: Local News

A tense situation has been reported at the Railway Department Head Office in Maradana as the workers had commenced a protest against the UNP MP’s who tried to enter the premises on a fact finding mission. […]

The country could expect continued rainfall ending the drought by mid-September with the beginning of the second inter monsoon, Meteorology Department Director General Lalith Chandrapala said. […]

If the Indian Navy “continues to fail to protect” Tamil Nadu fishermen from attacks by the Sri Lankan navy, the State government should then impart weapons training to fishermen to defend themselves from being hunted down on the high seas, Tamil Nationalist Movement leader, Pazha. Nedumaran has said. […]

Almost half of the suicides in Sri Lanka – 40 percent is due to depression, the majority of victims being young people, health officials told a discussion on mental health organised by the Family Health Education Bureau (FHEB). UNFPA Representative in Sri Lanka, Alain Sibenaler citing statistics said suicides remained one of the three main […]

The lack of a proper bathing space for the elephants that take part in the Kandy Esala Perahera still remains a shortcoming.Since the famous Katugastota elephant bathing place went into disuse after the flooding of Polgolla Dam under the Mahaweli project, no proper bathing place for elephants has been made available. […]

The Marine police of the Coastal Security Group (CSG) in India have arrested six people, including four fishermen, who brought 1.5 kg of smuggled gold bars from Sri Lanka and seized the gold. […]

Additional Mahiyangana Magistrate Gamini Rambakenpura yesterday released, on surety bail of Rs. 100,000 each, UPFA MP for Badulla, Thenuka Vidanagama and his brother former UPFA Uva Provincial Councillor, Anura Vidanagama, arrested yesterday for obstructing and threatening Deputy Commissioner of Elections for Kurunegala, Chaminda Namal Thalangama, who was on special election duty in Mahiyanganaya. […]

Sri Lanka’s government has improved its debt management, reaching its debt-to-GDP goal for year’s end by mid-year, data released on Thursday by the central bank showed. […]

JVP Leader Anura Kumara Dissnayake told Parliament yesterday that more than a million people in eight provinces were suffering without water to drink and the government had not taken steps to help them. […]

Electricity and fuel tariffs in Sri Lanka are not realistic and consumers have a right to know how these tariffs came about, Technology and Research Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka said yesterday. […]

Appropriate channels with Sri Lanka will be used to address issues of sensitive nature, the Ministry of External Affairs said today amid reports of a Pakistani diplomat, posted in Colombo, being involved in a conspiracy to target the US and Israel consulates in south India at ISI’s behest. […]

COLOMBO – Tourist arrivals from China to Sri Lanka during the first seven months jumped 144.2 percent compared to the same period last year, latest data from Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA) showed on Tuesday. […]

The first Randoli perahera of the Sri Dalada Maligawa Esala festival in Kandy will take place tonight (August 6). […]

The Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) will be filing a petition against Minister of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Development, Dr. Rajitha Senaratne, with the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption and will also be complaining to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID). […]

The teacher of Nawagaththegama Navodya School who was forced to be knelt down in presence of a local politician had been threatened with death, the Nawagaththegama Police said citing her complaint today. […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa met with Sri Lankan newspaper editors and news directors of radio and television stations this morning at Temple Trees. […]