Category: Local News

FILE PHOTO – The Disaster Management Center (DMC) says that ten sluice gates of the Parakrama Samudra reservoir have been opened due to the rising water level. […]

Hirunika Premachandra, daughter of the slain Presidential Adviser and former UPFA Parliamentarian Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra said that she would never abandon her battle to bring the murderers of her father to justice. […]

Sri Lankan household workers will no longer be required to surrender their passports to their sponsors, according to a new agreement signed between Saudi Arabia and Sri Lanka on Monday. Under the agreement, the salaries of domestic workers will also be remitted to their bank accounts. The two governments signed on Monday a memorandum of […]

An Albino Turtle believed to be the one lost in a turtle hatchery in Kosgoda, was recovered from the house of the hatchery owner’s daughter, police sources said today. […]

FILE PHOTO – Two Chinese and a Malaysian were arrested at Kalawana last night on charges of having in their possession 12 kilos of Wallapatta. […]

Panadura Magistrate, Ruchira Weliwatte, ordered the suspect who was remanded on charges of stealing seven bottles of whisky and a laptop computer from United National Party MP, Mangala Samaraweera’s Panadura home, be released on Rs 5,000 cash bail and Rs 25,000 personal bail on Monday (13). […]

I am pleased to extend my greetings to the Hindus of Sri Lanka who celebrate the important Thanksgiving and Harvest Festival of Thai Pongal today. […]

FILE PHOTO – The External Affairs Ministry today announced that India and Sri Lanka had begun the process of releasing fishermen trapped in Lankan jails. […]

The Sri Lankan rupee fell on Monday from its 2-1/2-month high hit in the previous session on importer dollar demand. […]

Saudi Arabia and Sri Lanka will sign a landmark labor pact on Monday in a renewed bid to regulate hiring of domestic workers from the island nation and to ensure protection to all domestic help already employed in the Kingdom. […]

The United National Party (UNP) is mooting a No Confidence motion against beleaguered Prime Minister, D.M. Jayaratne, over the allegations that his office had issued a letter to secure a duty waiver for a container, which had South Asia’s largest heroin haul concealed within. […]

– Union Minister V. Narayanasamy – Indian and Sri Lankan officials, along with representatives of fishermen, will meet to discuss the issues related to fishermen of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry on January 20 in Chennai, Union Minister V. Narayanasamy said on Sunday. […]

Steps will be taken in a day or two by the Sri Lankan government to release 275 Indian fishermen in Sri Lankan jails, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa said Saturday. […]

Homagama Magistrate Y.R.B. Nelundeniya issued notice on Thursday (9 January) to Minister of Investment Promotion Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena requesting his appearance in Court on Sunday (19 January) to inquire about a statement the minister had made to the Lanka newspaper in 2012 about the still missing journalist Prageeth Ekneligoda. […]

The Chief Minister of Southern Province, Shan Wijayalal de Silva says he has written to the Governor of the province, Kumari Balasooriya requesting to dissolve the Southern Provincial Council. […]

A court in Sri Lanka on Friday extended to January 24, the remand of 40 fishermen arrested by Naval personnel of the island nation on December 28 and 29 last year. […]