Category: Local News

A 30 year-old woman, beautician was found hanging in a hotel room where she had allegedly been staying with a man in Vavuniya early this morning, police said. […]

Higher Education Minister S.B. Dissanayake yesterday said President Mahinda Rajapaksa has offered maximum relief to the students who may have been subjected to injustice due to the Z score issue, by facilitating the admission of some of these students to the universities. […]

Sri Lanka announced on Tuesday that electricity would be cut to many homes, shops, offices and government buildings for three hours every day due to shortages from hydro-power stations. […]

Onlanka News – by Walter Jayawardhana India Today news magazine said Pakistan would probably help Sri Lanka to put up a nuclear power plant in Sampur, Trincomalee. […]

Onlanka News – by Walter Jayawardhana Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalitha has insisted the Central government.that arrangements should be made with Sri Lanka government to ease Indian fishermen to fish in the Sri Lanka waters off Katchteevu. […]

CID informed Colombo magistrate Court that MP Duminda Silva told from Singapore that he cannot remember the Kolonnawa shooting incident where presidential Advisor Baratha Lakshman Premachandran was killed. […]

A special team from the Criminal Investigation Department (which was investigating an incident in which Minister Rishard Bathiudeen had allegedly threatened the Mannar Magistrate over the phone) recorded a statement from the Mannar Magistrate, Police Spokesman SP Ajith Rohana said. […]

The members of the security forces have not been involved in the any sexual assault, in North and East, Defence and Urban Development Ministry Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa said. He said according to the statistics and revelations of a study conducted at hospital level no evidence was found that the personnel attached to the security forces […]

The CID today informed the Colombo Magistrate Court that they have found Pornography materials from at least three computers that were taken into police custody from the Sri Lankamirror office. […]

Two dead bodies – believed to be that of a married couple- were found from the Katuwana area in Hambantota this morning, Police media spokesman told Ada Derana. […]

General Sarath Fonseka yesterday said that he would not join any political party, but would form his own, the Democratic Party and work towards forging a common opposition platform to defeat the government. […]

Onlanka News – by Walter Jayawardhana After jointly bashing Sri Lanka over the ethnic Tamil issue political arch rivals in Tamil Nadu have now started attacking their other neighbor , the state of Karnataka for their scarcity of water in one voice. […]

Due to a breakdown at Lakvijaya Coal Power Plant in Norochcholai and Kerawalapitiya Power Plant there is a shortfall of 400 MW, says the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB). […]

The Press Council Act which was amended and approved by Cabinet recently is to be amended once again and resubmitted to the Cabinet. […]

British banking multinational, HSBC has been found to have financed Saudi Arabia’s Al Rajhi Bank, which has links to financing terrorism in Sri Lanka among other countries, the money laundering investigation report prepared by the United States Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations on the bank revealed last week. […]

The International Monetary Fund on Friday approved a final disbursement of $415 million to Sri Lanka and said its economy has been set on a more sustainable footing by its government’s tough new monetary and fiscal policies. […]