Category: Local News

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. […]

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 […]

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. […]

Chief Prelate of the Asgiriya Chapter of the Siam Nikaya, Most Ven. Udugama Sri Buddharakkhita Maha Nayaka Thera, charged the United National Party (UNP), under Ranil Wickremesinghe, is ‘drowning in a sea of hopelessness.’ […]

Pelassa Magistrate Namal Perera ordered the Moulavi of the Paragahadeniya Grand Mosque in Mawathagama and the Road Development Authority yesterday, to remove the sign board erected in front of the Mawathagama Paragahadeniya Mosque, which reads, ‘Mosque ahead- keep silence’, within 14 days. […]

– by Janaka Alahapperuma – Pix by: Sudath Silva – Jermaine Jackson, brother of pop icon Michael Jackson and member of the once famed ‘Jackson Five’ met President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the President’s House last evening on August 14. Jermaine is currently visiting Sri Lanka at the invitation of MP Namal Rajapaksa. […]

A Muslim school teacher has been arrested for damaging the board of the mosque in Paragahadeniya in Mawathagama in Kurunegala district. […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa has appointed the following members to the Commission tasked with investigating cases of persons from the Northern and Eastern Provinces who went missing during the war: […]

The historic Kandy Esala Pageant can now be viewed live through YouTube. This has been arranged for the first time by the Media and Special Projects Unit of the Sri Dalada Maligawa. […]