Category: Local News

Former MP Dayasiri Jayasekara gained the highest preference votes in the Kurunegala District with a massive 336,327 votes as fellow UPFA candidate and rival Johan Fernando managed to secure less than half that number. […]

The ruling United People’s Freddom Alliance (UPFA) recorded another landslide victories in North Western (NW) and Central Provincial Councils elections held on September 21.. In North Western Province, the UPFA obtained 705,188 votes which 66% of the total votes cast in the province. […]

DMK president M. Karunanidhi on Sunday hailed the victory of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) in the provincial council polls held after a gap of 25 years in the former Tamil Tigers-ruled Northern Province in Sri Lanka. […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa, along with First Lady Shiranthi Wickramasinghe Rajapaksa, left this morning on a five-day visit to New York during which he will address the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), taking place at the UN headquarters in New York City. […]

The SriLankan flight UL503 operating from Colombo to London Heathrow Airport was diverted and landed at Stansted (STN) Airport due to a “bomb threat” initiated by a passenger on board which is now appeared as “false claim,” an official said today. […]

Voting at the North, North Western and Central Provinces began at 7.00 am this morning  and will continue till 4.00pm in the evening today. […]

Some UNP supporters who were present at a meeting at Waikkal, Wennappuwa, booed at Minister Mervyn Silva on Wednesday (18), when he happened to go past the venue of the meeting, which had been organized by the Leader of the Opposition, Ranil Wickremesinghe. […]

(Reuters) – Voters in northern Sri Lanka go to the polls on Saturday in a provincial election that threatens to stir up old animosity between the government and ethnic minority Tamils. Defeat for the government of President Mahinda Rajapaksa would be largely symbolic, but victory for the main Tamil party could reignite calls for autonomy. […]

Election propaganda activities pertaining to the Northern, Central and North Western Provincial Council polls ended from midnight yesterday (18). […]

The Consumer Affairs Authority (CAA) made the biggest raid in its history when officers recovered a huge consignment of expired food items which could be worth nearly Rs 100 million from a large storage in Kotahena yesterday. […]

HT: Mr. Rajapaksa, in May 2009, your government and army managed to do something all previous governments in Sri Lanka had failed to do: end the 30-year-long civil war – one of the most brutal in the world – and decimate the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). What did you and your army do […]

The first killing related to the forthcoming provincial council election was reported from Puthukuduirippu, in Mullaitivu when a supporter of the UPFA was clubbed to death by other UPFA supporters on Monday night, sources said. […]

UPFA Chief Ministerial aspirant and former UNP MP Dayasiri Jayasekara yesterday warned that there could be a ‘computer Jilmaat’ when the votes were counted after the forthcoming PC polls in the Nortthwestern Province. […]

Former Police DIG Vaas Gunawardena has been granted bail over charges of soliciting a bribe to release a suspect in the murder case of Kelaniya PS member Hasitha Madawala. […]

At least four people were killed and more than 36 injured in three separate accidents at Dambulla last night. Police said three persons travelling on a motorbike were killed when the bike collided with a lorry in the Dambulla town. […]

The Defence Ministry has called for a full report on the three soldiers who searched the lorry parked near the Kotahena police since 1996, after the detection of 120 kilos of TNT explosives secreted in its chassis last week. […]