Category: Local News

The Prices of cigarettes have been increased by Rs. 2 and Rs.3 with effect from today, the Ceylon Tobacco Corporation said a short while ago. […]

“I have never changed a principled political position in my political career,” President Mahinda Rajapaksa said yesterday speaking to print and broadcast media heads at Temple Trees. […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa and First Lady Shiranthi Wickremasinghe Rajapaksa have congratulated the Royal Family on the birth of the Prince of Cambridge, the third heir to the throne. […]

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — A group of Sri Lankans urged neighboring India on Monday not to interfere in their country’s internal affairs by criticizing plans to withdraw rights from provincial councils set up to share power with ethnic minority Tamils. […]

Pope Francis has said that he is considering an invitation from Sri Lanka to pay a visit to the country next year, an AP news report said yesterday. […]

Son of Minister Mervin Silva, Malaka Silva has been admitted to the Nawaloka Hospital, after he was reportedly stabbed after a clash in the car park of Odel leading shopping mall in Colombo 7 […]

FILE PHOTO Notice has been issued on ousted Chief Justic Shirani Bandaranayake to appear before the Colombo Magistrate Court on September 16 over non declaration of assets. […]

Re-remanded former Provincial Councillor, Ananda Sarath Kumara, who, it was alleged, had made a teacher kneel before him in the presence of her students, was not included in the UPFA’s nomination list for the upcoming North-Western Provincial Council elections, political sources said yesterday. […]

The President has instructed the Department of Prisons to explore the possibility of releasing senior citizens, who are on death row. […]

– by Dimuth Gunawardena – The Vaddamarachi operation launched by the Sri Lankan Armed Forces was to protect Sri Lanka’s territorial and the political independence of Sri Lanka from Indian armed and Indian trained terrorist groups. India unlawfully interfered in that operation with the use of force by violating Sri Lanka’s Air Space with a […]

Colombo Chief Magistrate and Additional District Judge Gihan Pilapitiya remanded Yatiyantota Pradeshiya Shaba Chairman U D Wasantha Kumar, until August 2 for allegedly accepting a bribe from a businessman of the area. […]

  President Mahinda Rajapaksa has extended his congratulatory wishes to the new President of Libya Nouri Ali Busahmin. […]

Police Special Task Force (STF) personnel have arrested five suspects and confiscated a haul of ‘Kerala Ganja’ worth over Rs 10 million. […]

Opposition and United National Party (UNP) Leader, Ranil Wickremesinghe, has removed UNP Members of Parliament, Sajith Premadasa and Karu Jayasuriya off the list of speakers, who are listed to address election meetings in the North-Western and Central Provinces. […]

Nine persons including the Inter University Students Federation (IUSF) Convener, Sanjeewa Bandara, who were arrested for disregarding police orders and organizing a demonstration, have been released on bail today. […]

  President Mahinda Rajapaksa has sent a message of condolence to Chinese President Xi Jinping following the earthquake that struck in the Gansu Province in northwestern China on Monday, July 22, 2013. […]