Category: Local News

Minister of Economic Development Basil Rajapaksa on the invitation of Thilanga Sumathipala, ceremonially inaugurated the initial step of granting  200 Mobile T-Trucks to Self Employees of Borella Electorate. […]

The Kegalle Provincial High Court sentenced to death Wednesday, six individuals who were found guilty of committing three murders. The death sentence was handed down by Judge Menaka Wijesundara. […]

Dr. Sudarshini Fernandopulle, UPFA Gampaha District MP and widow of former Minister Jeyaraj Fernandopulle, yesterday charged that the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) had completely forgotten the victims of LTTE terrorism and that its report was not unbiased. […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa has requested the newly appointed Maldivian President Mohamed Waheed to ensure the safety of former President Muhammad Nasheed, Presidential spokesman Bandula Jayasekara said today. […]

Minister of Education Bandula Gunawardena has refuted allegations made by the Opposition Leader Ranil Wickremasinghe about the education policies of the government. He has said that free education will be made an eternal heritage of the poor people of this country in accordance with the pledge given in the Mahinda Chinthana. […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa has  said that the children  who are to  undertake the responsibility of this country in the future  should be provided with equal facilities regardless of whether they are form the urban areas or from village areas. […]

Fisheries Minister Dr. Rajitha Senaratne today in Parliament vowed to fight against politics involving drug kingpins and underworld. […]

Sarath Fonseka has abandoned the hunger strike as he was taken for his medical checkup a short while ago, DNA MP Arjuna Ranathunga told Ada Derana. He added that since the authorities decided to take him for the checkup the fast was called off. […]

Sarath Fonseka has begun a hunger strike at Welikada prison a short while ago, his wife Anoma Fonseka claims. She added that Fonseka was scheduled to be taken for a medical checkup after the court proceeding and instead was rushed out a back door and taken to the Welikada prison. […]

The government has spent about Rs 21,000 million for development projects in the Anuradhapura district parallel to the Deyata Kirula Exhibition with the aim of reviving the past glory of the ancient capital, statistics of the Mass Media and Information Ministry Research Unit revealed. […]

Two people were killed due to a sudden fire that engulfed an apartment complex in Wellawatte early morning today. The fire had started in the fourth floor of the building which is situated down the 37th lane in Wellawatte. […]

Minister Wimal Weerawansa’s wife Shashi who left with a group on Sunday to pay homage to a shrine in the Yala National Park had got lost in the deep jungles until three police teams rescued them yesterday, police said. […]

Mass Media and Information Minister Keheliya Rambukwella was reportedly admitted to a hospital in Melbourne, Australia following an accidental fall, sources stated. […]

Sri Lanka has achieved significant results in securing sustainable economic and social development, consolidation of democratic state institutions, Russian President Dmitry A Medvedev in a message to President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Sri Lanka’s 64th Independence Day said. […]

Prime Minister D.M Jayaratne and the Minister of Economic Development Basil Rajapaksa laid the foundation Stone for Jetwing Yarl hotel in Jaffna on Friday […]

Three American diplomats will travel to Sri Lanka for talks about alleged civilian casualties during the government’s military campaign to defeat the Tamil Tigers, an official said, AFP reports. […]