Category: Local News

A SRI Lankan pizza delivery man who came to England to earn money to support his family has been murdered while out working in South Yorkshire. Thavisha Peiris, who moved to Sheffield two-and-a-half years ago to study at university, was found dead late on Sunday night. Police have launched a murder investigation over the death […]

Government doctors have threatened to launch a countrywide strike on Nov. 4 over the delay in implementing the service minute. Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) media spokesman Dr. Navin de Soysa yesterday warned the government that his organization had decided to launch the strike due to the constant delay in implementing the service minute, which […]

Criminal Investigation Department of the Sri Lanka Police today raided a counterfeit money printing press in Malabe and seized money worth Rs. 7 million in fake notes. All the fake currency was of the Rs. 2000 denomination police said. […]

The electricity supply in Colombo has been disrupted as a result of a high tension electricity supply line malfunctioning, the Ceylon Electricity Board said. […]

Luxury bus service along the Colombo- Katunayake Expressway was launched this morning. Twenty buses have been deployed at the Colombo- Katunayake Expressway. […]

Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam (DMDK) chief Vijayakanth on Sunday demanded that India should boycott the Commonwealth Heads of Government (CHOGM) summit in Sri Lanka as it would give ample opportunity for the island nation “to legitimise its war” against the Tamils. […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa declared open the Colombo- Katunayake Expressway a short while ago. The Colombo-Katunayake expressway is Sri Lanka’s second E Class highway. […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa will vest with the people Sri Lanka’s 2nd Expressway, the Colombo Katunayake Expressway today. The 25.6 Km expressway will reduce the travel time between Kelani Bridge and Katunayake to 20 minutes. […]

Parents of students of a leading school in Kuliyapitiya are perturbed over an assignment given by the Ministry of Education to the students to welcome the delegation from Swaziland at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in a peculiar way. […]

At least three persons including an infant were killed and five others injured when a van carrying the victims had collided with a parked lorry at Karuwalagaswewa on the Puttalam-Anuradhapura main road in the early hours today, police said. […]

Northern Province Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswaran told the inaugural meeting of the recently elected Council that he was ready to exercise police and land powers granted to the PCs by the 13th Amendment to the Constitution […]

In a show of solidarity, political parties in Tamil Nadu Assembly and outside supported Chief Minister Jayalalithaa’s resolution against India’s participation in the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Sri Lanka. […]

Defence Secretary, Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, clearly stated that maintaining law and order in the Northern Province is the responsibility of the Chief Minister, C.V. Wigneswaran, but added that the Chief Minister has no power to issue orders to the police. He said the Leader of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA), R. Sampanthan, has to establish peace […]

The writ application filed by Nipuna Ramanayake and his mother G. Ramanayake in the Court of Appeal requesting to indict former DIG Vas Gunawardena over the alleged abduction and assault of the former by Ravindu Vas Gunawardena was withdrawn. […]

Tamil Nadu has asked the Centre to boycott the Commonwealth meet in Colombo next month over Sri Lanka’s alleged war crimes against Lankan Tamils and the arrest of fishermen from the state for straying into Lankan waters. […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa has said that the public are inconvenienced periodically by the decisions that are taken on development projects. The President expressed these views at a discussion held at temple trees on Wednesday. The discussion was held to collect ideas and proposals from the deputy ministers for the preparation of the 2014 budget. […]