Category: Local News

Four persons have been arrested in connection with assaulting the principal of the Dharmapala Vidyalaya in Kottawa yesterday (October 23), police stated. […]

The main opposition United National Party (UNP) said today that it would continue to oppose the Casino Bill notwithstanding the format it would be presented in. […]

– by Shenali D Waduge – In the absence of Western influenced local press opting not to highlight the injustices to Africa by Western Christian colonial rule, this attempt is to place before readers a part of history kept in the dark so that people realize who the real criminals are. There is no meaning […]

On a proposal made by President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the Commonwealth Business Forum held at Perth, Australia in 2011 it had been agreed to allow participation of representatives from non commonwealth countries as well in the Commonwealth Business Forum to be held in Sri Lanka.  Accordingly, 500 local businessmen and industrialists from Sri Lanka and […]

The Casino Bill (Strategic Development Project Bill), which was rejected at the Party Leaders’ Meeting on Monday night, will be tabled in Parliament again, after making amendments to it before Budget 2014, Minister of Investment Promotion, Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena, told journalists yesterday. […]

Seventy two people have been hospitalised following a gas leak from a factory in Piliyandala, Police said a short while ago. […]

(Reuters) – A Bulgarian fugitive convicted in the suffocation deaths of 18 Sri Lankan stowaways who died in the back of a truck he was driving nearly two decades ago has been arrested near Seattle and faces possible extradition to his home country, U.S. authorities said on Monday. Plamen Vladimirov Trifonov, 58, was found guilty […]

Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) is negotiating with government officials to have a whopping sum it owes two state institutions written off. The construction of cricket stadiums at Hambantota, Pallekele and R. Premadasa in the lead-up to the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 cost SLC a fortune and it still owes a further Rs. 3.2 billion […]

  – by Shenali D Waduge – With only days apart for the Commonwealth Heads of Government to arrive in Sri Lanka for what is being looked forward to as ‘the’ most prestigious event on Sri Lanka’s calendar; what cannot escape attention is the manner that Sri Lanka’s Press has been functioning. No one argues […]

Australiancricket captain Michael Clarke has signed a six-figure deal with billionaire James Packer’s Crown Resorts to act as an “education ambassador”. The signing comes as Mr Packer sharpens his campaign to build a $400 million luxury casino resort in Sri Lanka, tapping into the country’s love of cricket to build public support. […]

Countering the politically motivated allegations being made by certain groups the government has assured that it will not grant any new licenses to open gambling centres but will regulate the ones that are already in existence. […]

Six suspects including Sudath Chandrasekara, a secretary of the UNP leader and Kithsiri Kahatapitiya a former Western Provincial Council opposition leader were arrested after they surrendered to the Matara Police in connection with the October 5 protest in Matara […]

Canada should not boycott the upcoming Commonwealth meetings in Sri Lanka, former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney said. “If you were going to boycott the Commonwealth because of illustrations of improper government or abusive treatment of people within some of the member countries, some days you wouldn’t have too many people around that Commonwealth table […]

– by Janaka Alahapperuma – (pix by: Chandana Perera & Nalin Hewapathirana) A special Ashirvada Pooja to invoke blessings for the success of the oncoming Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Sri Lanka was held at Sri Sambodhi Viharaya in Gregory’s Road, Colombo-7 on Saturday evening (19 Oct). […]

Sri Lanka ‘s first Nanotechnology research center and Nanoscience park will be declared open by President Mahinda Rajapaksa on October 21. Sri Lanka Institute of Nanotechnology (SLINTEC) together with the Ministry of Technology and Research laid the foundation in June 2012 for the commencement of construction of the park which is named as Nanotechnology Centre […]

– FILE PHOTO – Three boat arrivals were reported from October 11 to 18, Operation Sovereign Borders Commander Australia, Maj. Gen. Angus Campbell said. Last Friday, a boat carrying 79 people arrived at the Cocos (Keeling) Islands from Sri Lanka. […]