Category: Local News

The life of a woman who died after delivering a baby at the De Soysa Maternity Hospital (DMH) Colombo would have been saved if quality drugs were available at the hospital, said the gynecologist who had performed a Cesarean operation on the patient, who was giving evidence before the City Coroner’s court. […]

“Countries emerging from painful conflicts and renewing their commitment to economic and social development after the eradication of terrorism, deserve understanding and sympathetic support from the international community, not judgmental attitudes buttressed by pressure which erodes the dignity and self-respect of developing nations, External Affairs Minister Prof G L Peiris said in the Nigerian capital, […]

The film will be directed by Shoojit Sircar, who has just wrapped up the shooting of Vicky Donor, which is his breezy satire on sperm donation, featuring veejay Ayushmaan in the lead. And John has co-produced the film. […]

Police arrested a suspect today in connection with the murder of a 48 year old woman whose body was found in a hotel room at Kollupitiya, yesterday morning. […]

A tense situation has erupted in Maligawatta as authorities have arrived to demolish unauthorized buildings, Maligawatta police told Ada Derana. Police have been deployed to the area to control the situation as the residents are protesting the move to demolish. […]

A U.S. court has dismissed a lawsuit filed against the Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, noting he is immune from lawsuits as a sitting head of state. […]

The EU yesterday backed UK’s demand that the GoSL take tangible measures to address accountability issues or face the consequences. […]

External intervention at this time is singularly unhelpful and will indeed inflict grave damage on a sensitive internal process which is moving forward, External Affairs Minister Professor G L Peiris said in Kampala, Uganda on Tuesday. […]

The Cinnamon Gardens Police have arrested 43 boys from a leading boy’s school in Colombo, for causing disturbance to school activities at two of Colombo’s leading girl’s schools. […]

The decision on the milk powder price revision will be taken tomorrow (March 1) after milk food companies requested a price revision from the Pricing Committee of the Consumer Affairs Authority (CAA), the Ministry of Cooperatives and Internal Trade stated. […]

A 48 year old woman was found dead with stab wounds, inside a hotel room in Kollupitiya early this morning, the police said. […]

Former Army Commander General Sarath Fonseka yesterday said that the 19th sessions of the UNHRC in Geneva were detrimental to the interests of corrupt government leaders and not those of Sri Lanka. […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday said that the mammoth crowds in Kilinochchi, Jaffna, the East and the rest of the country could protest unitedly on highways on Monday, irrespective of all differences, against a resolution before the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva against Sri Lanka because ruthless terrorism was defeated without rousing racist passions, by […]

Treasury Secretary Dr. P. B. Jayasundera has defended the recent fuel price increases saying the revisions were undertaken only after it became apparent that subsidising fuel and electricity was no longer sustainable. […]

Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe the Leader of the Sri Lankan delegation currently in Geneva at the UNHRC session outlined the initiatives taken by the government to address issues raised. Addressing the session Samarasinghe invited delegates to visit the country and witness for themselves first hand the transformation that has taken place in the country. below is […]

The Mahanayake Theras of the three Nikayas in a joint statement yesterday have called upon the people to shed all petty differences and join hands with the government to defeat all foreign conspiracies aimed at undermining the country’s development efforts and the communal and religious unity and amity now building up. “If the people go […]