Category: Local News

FILE PHOTO In June the Calgary Zoo, part of which sits on an island in the Bow River, was devastated by flooding. Two hippos almost escaped. The elephants stood in two feet of water, and the zoo suffered $50 million in damages. […]

– by Shenali D Waduge – For 25 centuries Sri Lanka was a nation that had prohibited animal slaughter of any kind by royal decree. The royal proclamations by the Sinhala Buddhist kings forbidding every citizen including visitor and trader to slaughter animals has not been repealed and questions why what did not exist under […]

  The Health Ministry Food Advisory Committee will release seven brands of milk powder from the harbour as ITI officials have confirmed that there was no DCD in the samples of these seven milk powder brands. […]

– by Janaka Alahapperuma – Pix by: Sudath Silva – The visiting princesses of Japan and Thailand paid homage to Sri Dalada Maligawa (Temple of the Tooth) in Kandy this afternoon (20) on Nikini Full Moon Poya Day. […]

COLOMBO, Aug 19 (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s health ministry has decided to release a batch of milk powder made by companies including New Zealand’s Fonterra after tests for suspected dicyandiamide (DCD) contamination came back negative, officials said on Monday. […]

  – by Shenali D Waduge – The very organizations and individuals ever ready to pull out the red card of international human rights and laws have been chanting the chorus of a “sinhalization” of “historical Tamil areas” totally ignoring that it is the right of any citizen to live within the territory of the […]

Sri Lanka Sunday said it would “very much like” Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in November in Colombo even as Tamil Nadu parties have urged India not to participate in the event. […]

The police have arrested a son of former Deputy Minister of Power and Energy and leader of the 1971 insurrection, Athula Wimalasiri Jayasinghe, alias Loku Athula. […]

Suspicious seting fire to thousands of files containing important documents of the Colombo Municipal Council (CMC), the work of the Council’s Secretary’s Department has set the Council aflame with recriminations. Colombo Mayor A. J. M Muzammil yesterday ordered a report on the incident from CMC’s Internal Audit. […]

Two Air force personnel, including a woman were killed following a shootout at a guesthouse at Marble Beach, Trincomalee today. […]

  The conducting of tuition and revision classes, distribution of question papers for the Grade 5 scholarship examination will be banned from midnight tomorrow (19) to 12noon on August 25, the Commissioner of Examinations said. […]

– by Janaka Alahapperuma – Pix By: Nalin Hewapathirana – President Mahinda Rajapaksa visited the Kataragama sacred area last night and participated in many special religious observances and annual Kataragama perahara festival. The President participated in religious observances at the Katharagama Kiri Vehera Rajamaha Viharaya and called on the Chief Incumbent of the Kiri Vehera […]

  – by Shenali D Waduge – There is little that sets the LTTE and TNA apart. The objectives of both remain the same only the modus operandi differed. The Sri Lankan Armed Forces eliminated the ground terror of LTTE removing the terrorist aspect from the quest. Now the TNA has taken over the baton […]

The Chairman of the Aranayake Pradeshiya Sabaha, Dinesh Gunaratne has been arrested for allegedly assaulting a person, police said. […]

– by Janaka Alahapperuma – Pix By: Nalin Hewapathirana & Nishanka De Silva President Mahinda Rajapaksa declared open the Wahalkada at the Tissamaharama Raja Maha Viharaya, which was constructed in memory of their deceased parents, father D. A. Rajapaksa and mother Dandina Samarasinghe Dissanayaka, this evening on 16 August. The President accompanied with Speaker Chamal […]

The Gampaha District Court today issued an enjoining order preventing the sale and distribution of all Fonterra products in Sri Lanka. The order was issued in a case filed by the Government Nursing Officers Association. […]