Category: Local News

The public investment has increased by 45% to Rs. 152 Billion within the first four months of this year as against the Rs. 103.9 billion during the first four months of last year. The Treasury assures that higher revenue and moderation of expenditure will achieve the full year targeted deficit of 6.2% […]

The Chairman of the Akuressa Pradeshiya Sabha was arrested over allegations of molesting a 14 year old girl in an incident which allegedly took place between March 23 and 30, police stated. […]

The government yesterday said there might be elements with vested interests trying to tarnish the image of Sri Lanka by falsely accusing the country of being a haven for human smuggling. […]

The Ceylon Electricity Board(CEB) yesterday said that it is capable of providing a continuous power supply to all parts of the country irrespective of trade union action which was scheduled to be launched by certain trade unions of the Board from midnight yesterday. […]

About 15,000 non-executive staff belonging to the Joint Trade Union Alliance of the Ceylon Electricity Board will stage a 24-hour strike from midnight today demanding the rectification of their salary anomalies. […]

The Commercial High Court today issued an interim injunction preventing MTV/MBC network from telecasting the 2012 London Olympics. […]

It is the objective of the government to help and uplift standards of sports ofthe rural talented youth to reach national and international arenas, as it is is assured in the Mahinda Chinthana Future Vision. […]

The Department of Government Information says that common human rights are being neglected and violated by false and disrespectful news reports. […]

Christmas Island is today preparing to offload yet more asylum seekers who arrived by boat overnight, most likely from Sri Lanka. The small ramshackled fishing vessel carrying the 39 mainly male asylum seekers is currently sitting not far from shore at Christmas Island’s cove, with around five Navy officers on board. […]

Indian National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon says that India wants a united Sri Lanka, within which all communities feel they are in control of their own destinies. […]

Nine workers of Sri Lanka X-News and Sri Lanka Mirror who were arrested by the CID were granted bail by Colombo Magistrate, UNP MP Mangala Samaraweera stated. […]

The presidential secretariat has decided to intervene in trying to resolve the Z-score crisis following the Supreme Court ruling that the University Grants Commission (UGC) recalculates the rankings on the basis that the two syllabuses are different, informed sources said. […]

Nine people were arrested and seven computers including a personal lap-top were taken into custody by the CID from the Lanka Mirror office in Etulkotte this evening. […]

Three jailors who were taken hostage by a group of inmates at the Vavuniya Prison have been rescued following a joint Army, Special Task Force (STF) and police operation today, STF spokesman said. […]

Galle District MP Nishantha Muthuhettigama, at a media briefing at his office in Galle recently, said that though Sanath Jayasuriya had withdrawn his request for a deputy minister’s post he (Muthuhettigama) would not do so […]

Onlanka News – by Walter Jayawardhana The Hindu said the Indian National Security Advisor Shiv Shankar Menon who has arrived in Sri Lanka in a special aircraft , who will unequivocally convey to the Sri Lankan leadership the path that India will traverse towards achieving a genuine political solution in Sri Lanka, has the most […]