Category: Local News

Asgiriya Chapter Maha Nayake Thera the Venerable Udugama Sri Buddharakkita Thera yesterday underlined the statement made by the Mahanayake Theras against the impeachment motion on the Chief Justice. He said if there was a law in the country it should be applied equally to all. […]

Prime Minister, D.M. Jayaratne, who is currently on medical leave, has requested President Mahinda Rajapaksa to appoint his son, Anuradha Jayaratne, for Parliament in his place, sources said. […]

Speaker Chamal Rajapaksa yesterday declared in Parliament that notices served on him and members of the Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) probing the charges mentioned in the impeachment motion against Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake were a nullity and entailed no legal […]

Ratnapura District Senior Superintendent Vass Gunawardena assured the residents of Kotakethana that he would take steps to stop the killings and the panic and terrorthat are spreading in the area. For a start, he said he would reside at Kotakethana and rebuild the people’s confidence in security, law and order. Since 2008 some 15 women […]

The petitions against the Parliamentary Select Committee appointed to probe the impeachment charges against the Chief Justice is in violation of the parliamentary privileges of the MPs, Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva told the Parliament Speaker Chamal Rajapaksa today (November 29). […]

The new visa regulations introduced by the Australian High Commission in Colombo have inconvenienced Sri Lankan cricketers scheduled to leave for Australia on Dec. 02 for an eight-week-long tour consisting of three Tests, five ODIs and two T-20s. […]

The Government Analyst Department has launched investigations into the fire that erupted at the Colombo Kachcheri on Monday night. Colombo District Secretary Mr. Kamal Padmasiri said all information and the keys of the building have been handed over to the Government Analyst. […]

At least six persons, including two children were killed when a three-wheeler collided with the ‘Yal Devi’ train at the railway crossing at Getawa, Ambanpola around 9.30 this morning, police said. […]

Sanjeewa Samarasinghe, media co-ordinator of the former Army Commander Sarath Fonseka had been taken in for questioning by the CID yesterday. […]

Private Bus Operators Association said that private buses in the Western Province mainly on the High Level road and some 50 more sub routes have launched a strike over issuing route permits. […]

The communication satellite, a joint venture of SupremeSAT(Pvt) Ltd and China’s state owned CGWIC was launched from XI-Chang Space Centre China, a short while ago. […]

Prime Minister D.M. Jayaratne who was in the United States for treatment arrived in the country Tuesday morning. […]

A fire has broken out at the Colombo Divisional Secretariat (Kachcheri) building at Dam Street a short while ago, the Colombo Fire Brigade said. Several fire brigades have been sent to the scene, it said. […]

WOULD-BE asylum seekers from Sri Lanka are being told there is no prospect of them working in Australia while their claims are assessed, and that they will be forced to survive on ”minimal subsistence” from the government. A public relations blitz by Australian officials is trying to dissuade Sri Lankans, tempted by people smuggler’s promises […]

Sri Lanka’s one and only mobile phone directory has got off the ground providing access for Android phone users to a comprehensive list of business addresses, telephone numbers and other contact information, officials of the SLT Rainbow Pages said. […]

Several roads in the Matara and Galle Districts have been inundated due to heavy rains in the area the Disaster Management Centre reported. […]