Category: Local News

– by: Nicholas Dias Abeyesinghe, Cer.Ed.,DRTE.,MIMI. – Your Eminence, I am writing in response to the Report of your recently held Bishops’ Conference as reported by the media.  The Report appeals to His Excellency President Mahinda Rajapksa: Not to repeal the 13th amendment to the Constitution of the Socialist Democratic Republic of Sri Lanka Not […]

A suspected Indian Mujahideen member, who was arrested yesterday from the Nadia district in West Bengal, will be questioned over whether he had any role to play in the multiple blasts that rocked the Mahabodhi temple in Bihar’s Bodhgaya yesterday morning. […]

The Sri Lankan government advised its citizens against visiting the Mahabodhi Temple in Bihar’s Bodhgaya district of India during the next week. […]

Thousands of commuters are stranded Island wide today due to a 48-hour railway strike launched by the Railways Professional Trade Union Alliance (RPTUA) since midnight on Sunday over salary anomalies. […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa has condemned the explosions that took place in Bodh Gaya shrine in Bihar, India, today. Please find below the full text of President Rajapaksa’s message. […]

The President of Maldives, Dr. Mohamed Waheed accompanied by First Lady Ilham Hussain and a business delegation arrived in Sri Lanka on a two-day working visit. […]

(Reuters) – Sri Lanka will hold provincial elections in the former northern war zone in September for the first time in 25 years, officials said on Friday, a move demanded by the United Nations since the end of three decades of conflict in 2009. But Northern Province, which includes the Jaffna peninsula, has been under […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday issued a proclamation calling for the holding of elections to the Northern Provincial Council. Commissioner General of Elections Mahinda Deshapriya was officially notified about this yesterday, said Presidential Spokesman and senior journalist Mohan Samaranayake. […]

Police reported that 33 persons were injured in a collision between a bus and a SUV in the Ahangama area this morning (July 5). […]

Democratic Party (DP) leader Gen. Sarath Fonseka is confident of mustering the northerners’ support for the unitary character of the state. […]

The Colombo Additional Magistrate today warned former Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Vass Gunawardena’s wife Shyamali Perera not to threaten witnesses of the businessman murder case, Ada Derana reporter said. […]

COLOMBO, July 4 (Reuters) – Sri Lankan rupee steadied near an eight-month low in early trade on Thursday, with a state-run bank selling dollar at 130.60 rupees as the local currency remained under pressure on concerns of further foreign outflows. […]

A prominent underworld drug-leader Mohammed Azmir alias ‘Mamazmi’, was shot dead last night at Borella, police said. […]

– by Janaka Alahapperuma – Pix by: Sudath Silva New High Commissioners from Canada and India taking assignments in Sri Lanka presented their credentials to President Mahinda Rajapaksa at 10.45am on 03 July (Wednesday) at a ceremony held at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo. […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday directed the Sri Lanka Railway authorities to take prompt action to initiate a security system to install railway gates to prevent accidents at railway crossings. […]

COLOMBO, July 2 (Reuters) – The Sri Lankan rupee extended falls early on Tuesday to trade around its near eight-month lows on importer demand for the greenback, with concerns over further foreign outflow from government securities also hurting the currency, dealers said. […]