Category: Local News

A Chinese company is to be awarded the second and third stages of a railway line project valued at 600 million U.S. dollars in Sri Lanka, an official said on Tuesday. […]

The main suspect in the murder of a gem businessman in Ratnapura last month has been shot dead during a confrontation with police officers this morning, Police Spokesman SSP Ajith Rohana said. […]

New Zealand needs to lend its support to an independent international investigation into allegations of war crimes in Sri Lanka, Green Party human rights spokesperson Jan Logie said today. […]

Thousands of Tamils demonstrated in Geneva on Monday to protest Sri Lanka’s rejection of calls for an international probe into alleged war crimes at the end of its civil war. […]

No force can change the Government as long as the people of the country place their faith and confidence in us, President Mahinda Rajapaksa said. […]

The long awaited National Drug Policy, which was continuously obstructed by the multi national drug mafia, will be handed over to President Mahinda Rajapaksa today by the Minister of Health Maithripala Sirisena.  The new policy will put an end to operations of the drug mafia in the country. […]

David Cameron’s office says decision taken after Sri Lanka failed to conduct its own inquiry into civil war Britain is to join the US and three other countries in pushing for a full international inquiry into alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka after the government there failed to satisfy international calls for a such an […]

Hambantota now has all the infrastructure, but what is lacking currently is a Parliament, Disaster Management Minister, Mahinda Amaraweera, said. […]

The UNP yesterday accused the government of censoring credible news sources available on the internet and demanded that internet service providers unofficially blocking some websites revealed on what official instructions or court order an illegal censorship is being imposed. […]

Sri Lanka’s Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva Ambassador Ravinatha Aryasinha, has said “the draft resolution on Sri Lanka deposited with the Human Rights Council by a core group comprising – the USA, UK, Mauritius, Montenegro and Macedonia, violates the constitutional provisions of Sri Lanka, is highly intrusive in nature and is in breach […]

A new luxury air-conditioned train service from Colombo Fort to the newly commissioned Palai Railway Station will set off at 2.45 this afternoon, the Railway Department said. […]

Minister of External Affairs Prof. G. L. Peiris has said that the highly prejudiced actions by sections of the international community and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to give disproportionate attention to Sri Lanka had only made the separatist diaspora Tamil elements and their proxies in the north more intransigent, […]

Customs officials seized 36kg of heroin concealed within a container which was declared to contain iron materials. […]

Sri Lanka is destroying about 130 tons of Fonterra milk powder, Fonterra says it’s got nothing to do with it being tainted. Earlier there were concerns about tiny quantities of DCD, a nitrate inhibitor used to curb greenhouse gas emissions from farming. […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa and Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai held bilateral discussions at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo this morning, and during the talks, President Karzai commended President Rajapaksa for achieving peace in the country. […]

Describing the draft resolution on war crimes in Sri Lanka tabled by the US, UK, Mauritius and Macedonia as ‘disappointing’, DMK leader M Karunanidhi on Wednesday urged the Union government to move a separate resolution seeking independent, international inquiry into alleged war crimes. […]