Category: Local News

Pursuant to the bi-lateral meeting the President Mahinda Rajapaksa and the Prime Minister of Norway, Jens Stoltenberg, held in New York along the margins of the United Nations General Assembly, Nimal Siripala de Silva, Minister of Irrigation and Water Resources Management and the Leader of the House together with Anura Priyadharshana Yapa, Minister of Environment […]

Sri Lanka is speaking the language of peace after decades of conflict that affected thousands of Sri Lankans of all communities, said President Mahinda Rajapaksa addressing the 9th International Language and Development Conference in Colombo yesterday. […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa while attributing the comprehensive victory of the United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) at the concluded local authority election to team work and unity urged newly appointed LG heads to work in the same spirit to fulfill people’s aspirations and needs. […]

The ruling party in Sri Lanka should take the responsibility for the recent murder of a presidential advisor, his family members say. In an exclusive interview with BBC Sandeshaya, Swarna Guanaratne, elder sister of slain Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra said that the family is not satisfied about the progress in the murder investigation. […]

  The Defence Ministry has been re designated as the Defence and Urban Development Ministry, Secretary to the President Lalith Weeratunga told the Daily News yesterday. He said that the gazette notification in this regard was issued last week. […]

Vietnam will always stand by Sri Lanka in the international arena, stated Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang during his bilateral discussion with President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the Presidential Secretariat yesterday. […]

Heavy traffic jams prevailed this morning on several roads leading to Colombo from Rajagiriya due to VIP movement. The traffic jams affected the areas of Town Hall, Ward Place, Horton Place and the Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte Road area in Rajagiriya. […]

Parliamentarian Duminda Silva is recovering slowly and has been removed from the life supporting system, Sri Jayawardenapura General Hospital Director Dr. Shavendra Gamage said. […]

Senior law experts say that the use of weapons among politicians in the country must be banned. They pointed out that the public representatives appointed by the people do not need firearms to serve them. […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa today said that two suspects who were involved in the Mulleriyawa shooting who had fled to India have been apprehended. He added that they will be brought to Colombo today. […]

Hirunika Premachandra, the daughter of slain presidential advisor Bharatha Lakshman Premachndra yesterday pledged she would lead the struggle against the injustice that had been done to her father and would continue the services he had rendered during his political career. […]

UPFA candidate for Colombo Milinda Moragoda while thanking those Colombo residents and well-wishers who placed their trust in him observed that the “incomplete nature of the mandate given by the people of Colombo shows there is no agreement on policies that would take us forward. […]

Former Secretary of the Education Ministry, Nimal Bandara was appointed as the new Chairman to the Board of the Sri Jayawardenapura Teaching Hospital, by Health Minister Maithripala Sirisena a short while ago. Additional Secretary of the Health Ministry, Dr. Palitha Mahipala, was appointed as a member of the Board. Other members of the 12 member […]

“A nation cannot be built without discipline, an industry cannot be built without discipline,”‘ said the  Minister of Fisheries Dr. Rajitna Senaratne He made this statement while participating in an event in Chilaw yesterday. […]

Two persons were killed and two others sustained injuries in a road accident which had taken place in the Bobella area in Naula at around 8 p.m. yesterday. […]

“I have been waiting and waiting until the Sri Lankan government would respond” said the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon . His remarks were made in an exclusive press meeting with Norwegian Foreign Media on 10 October in Oslo. Journalist Nadarajah Sethurupan has questioned the Secretary General when he attended the International Climate and Energy […]