Category: Local News

President Mahinda Rajapaksa, in his capacity as Finance Minister, is scheduled to present the 2014 Budget to Parliament today (21) at 1.00 p.m. The debate on the second reading of the Budget will commence the following day at 9.30 a.m. and continue till Nov. 29. […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa, in a message sent this week, has congratulated the new Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom. […]

The implementation of regulations, prohibiting the use of motorcycle helmets, which cover the whole face and with tinted visors has been suspended, police said today. […]

A couple was stabbed to death with a sharp instrument in the Halgasmulla area of Akmeemana early this morning (November 20), police stated. […]

As a part of the progressive urban development projects in Battaramulla a newly constructed house was gifted to a low income family at a function held under the patronage of the Secretary to the Ministry of Defence and Urban Development Mr. Gotabaya Rajapaksa yesterday (18th November) at Thalapathpitiya, Madiwela in Battaramulla. […]

FILE PHOTO Police used tear gas to disperse a crowd protesting in the Nindavur area since yesterday (November 19) while blocking the Akkaraipattu-Kalmunai road. […]

Mount Lavinia Additional Magistrate, Praharsha Ranasinghe, ordered a company to pay compensation amounting to Rs 10,000, based on charges of mentally distressing an individual, who had been receiving unsolicited text messages. […]

Two Air Force personnel attached to the Piduruthalagala Air force base were killed in a shoot out between them this morning, police said. […]

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa celebrates his 68th birthday today (November 18) with family members at his official residence. The President will also mark the anniversary of his election to the office tomorrow, November 19. A series of religious ceremonies have been organized island wide to mark the President’s birthday and the anniversary. […]

While the Sri Lankan government has so far given the impression that it does not take offence to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh skipping the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Sri Lanka’s Economic Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa said on Sunday that he was disappointed with Dr. Singh’s absence. […]

The Australian government yesterday declared that it would gift two large Bay Class patrol vessels to the Sri Lankan Navy early next year. […]

Five persons were killed and at least another 15 wounded after a collision between a bus and a van at Talatuoya in Kandy this morning, police said. […]

Head of the Channel 4 media team Callum Macrae has said, on twitter, that they did not pay the driver, who brought them to Colombo on Thursday, as they were forced to return by the police. […]

David Cameron, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom , who is now in Sri Lanka to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) 2013 met with President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the Sirimavo Bandaranaike Memorial Exhibition Centre this evening (Nov. 15). […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa officially declared open 2013 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting at the Nelum Pokuna Mahinda Rajapaksa Performance Theatre in Colombo. […]

The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) 2013 commenced today (November 15) at 10.15am at the Nelum Pokuna Mahinda Rajapaksa theatre with 53 countries set to participate in the summit. […]