Category: Local News

Around 20 houses have been destroyed after a fire broke out and spread through a row of houses at Estate No. 101 in Nagahamulla, Wellampitiya today, police said. […]

Sri Lanka’s External Affairs Minister G.L. Peiris will visit China next week in an effort to strengthen relations between the two countries, the ministry said Friday. […]

(Reuters) – The Sri Lankan rupee traded a tad weaker on Friday on importer dollar demand and dealers expect the local currency to ease next week with foreign investors exiting the island nation’s bourse as part of a selloff in emerging markets. Lower interest rates that could drive credit growth, and expected seasonal importer dollar […]

FILE PHOTO – Kalutara District UNP MP Palitha Thevarapperuma, who manhandled the party’s National Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe at Wednesday’s parliamentary group meeting, was suspended from the party yesterday. […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa has written to congratulate the new Prime Minister of Latvia Laimdota Straujuma. Extending his best wishes, President Rajapaksa described the appointment of the country’s first female prime minister as “a landmark event in the history of Latvia.” […]

India will extend visa-on arrival to tourists of all nations barring eight, including Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Sudan and Iran, as it looks to boost tourism, Planning Minister Rajeev Shukla said on Wednesday. […]

Three brothels were raided and 26 alleged prostitutes were arrested in Maradana police area by the Western Province Police Crime Division yesterday, police said. […]

The special commodity levy on imported dhal has been reduced to Rs. 5 from Rs.22 per 1kg with effect from February 6, the Finance Ministry said today. […]

Anarkalli Aakarsha said that she would contest from the Matara District at the Southern Provincial Council election this time. Her election campaign is scheduled to begin after the opening of her co-ordinating office tomorrow. […]

(Reuters) – Sri Lanka has refused a visa request for a U.S. State Department official, the U.S. Embassy said on Tuesday after Washington signalled it would propose a U.N. resolution against the South Asian state over alleged war crimes. Tensions rose after U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Nisha Biswal voiced frustration on Saturday over Sri […]

I share your dream to strengthen the Sri Lankan nation under a single flag in a united country. Achieving this requires hard work coupled with diligence and honesty.  It calls for patriotism that transcends the barriers of geography and community, with reconciliation and combined unity of purpose, stated President Mahinda Rajapaksa in his Independence Day […]

(Reuters) – Sri Lanka rejected U.S. criticism of its human rights record as “grossly disproportionate” on Sunday, a day after a senior U.S. official said Washington would table a U.N. resolution against Colombo. Assistant Secretary of State Nisha Biswal expressed frustration on Saturday over Sri Lanka’s failure to punish military personnel responsible for atrocities in […]

Police at Arlanda airport in Stockholm have arrested a man suspected to be a Sri Lankan national who attempted to enter the cockpit of a plane destined for Sweden claiming he had a bomb, foreign media reported. […]

Police last evening arrested the prime suspect in the killing of journalist Mel Gunasekera at Battaramulla. Police spokesman SSP Ajith Rohana told The Island last night that the officers of the special Crime Investigation Unit of the Mirihana Police had made the arrest at the New Road, Dompe. The suspect Samson Joseph Anthony (39) of […]

MP Anura Kumara Dissnayake has been unanimously elected as the new Leader of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (People’s Liberation Front) at the party’s 7th National Convention held at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium today. […]

The Assistant Vice President at Fitch Ratings Lanka and senior business Journalist Mel Gunasekera had been found murdered at her house in Battaramulla this morning, Police said […]