Category: Local News

  Coastal patrolling along the Kerala and Lakshadweep coasts will get a fillip when the Navy inducts in a month or two the first batch of four fast interceptor crafts (FIC) manufactured by the Sri Lankan firm Solas Marine. […]

Alleged financial scammer Chandana Weerakumara alias Sakvithi Ranasinghe was sentenced to two years Rigorous Imprisonment together with a fine of 25,000 Rupees today, for solemnizing a second marriage while the first marriage existed. Ranasinghe married N. Subashini De Silva in March 1998, and while the marriage existed, on or about March 2006, he was found […]

The Royal Brunei Police Force (RBPF) on Monday apprehended a Sri Lankan national suspected of using fraudulent ATM cards to withdraw cash from ATM machines in the capital, just mere minutes before he boarded a plane to leave the country at Brunei International Airport, Borneo Bulletin reported. […]

R. K. Radhakrishnan The United States is sure that India will support a country-specific resolution sponsored by it in the coming session of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva. […]

Sri Lanka Army on the directions of HE the President Mahinda Rajapaksa has offered a prosthetic arm to Ms Achala Priyadarshani, the final year Law student, whose arm on alleged medical negligence, was amputated after an accidental fall from a flight of stairs at her home in Urubokka. […]

Traditional Industries and Small Enterprise Development Minister Douglas Devananda said he expects to contest the Northern Provincial Council Election to be held this year. […]

2012 A/L results have been released. Results could be obtained via http://www.doenets.lk […]

  By Shenali Waduge The most virtuous nation in the world is to bring a second resolution against Sri Lanka for human rights violations at the Geneva sessions in March 2013. Sri Lanka however is yet to learn lessons from the principle of “once bitten twice shy” and so our external affairs ministry is shamelessly […]

A person was killed by police fire while attempting to rob a group of school children in the Minuwangoda area. The victim along with three others had attempted to rob a gold chain from a school child at gun point when the police intervened and a shootout took place. […]

Commissioner of Elections Mahinda Deshapriya says that an investigation is underway into an incident where ballot papers used at the recent Presidential Election were found in the Kalagedihena area in Nittambuwa. […]

Rupert Colville (Reuters) – United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay has accused Sri Lanka of “gross interference” in the judiciary, warning that its removal of the chief justice could jeopardize efforts to prosecute war crimes. […]

JVP Propaganda Secretary and parliamentarian Vijitha Herath yesterday alleged that Ratnapura District MP Pavitra Wanniarachchi had been rewarded for her role in the high-profile campaign to impeach Chief Justice Dr. Shirani Bandaranayake. […]

Submitted by Walter Jayawardhana In the light of India’s announcement that it could continue to train Sri Lankan military in the country, key UPA constituent DMK on Friday said there was a ’doubt’ if India was ‘compromising’ on some issues such as Sri Lankan Tamils to show itself as a ‘neutral’ country. […]

Submitted by Walter Jayawardhana The US decision to sponsor a procedural resolution at the March 2013 UN Human Rights Council against Sri Lanka was also prompted by the impeachment of the country’s Chief Justice Dr. Shirani Bandaranayaka, the US has announced. […]

Chairman of the People’s Bank W. Karunajeewa has passed away at a private Hospital this morning, an official confirmed. […]

TIRUNELVELI: India and Sri Lanka are close to clinching an agreement on drawing a fishing boundary in the Palk Strait that would put an end to recurring attacks on fishermen from Tamil Nadu allegedly by the island navy, Minister of State in PMO V Narayanasamy said today. […]