Category: Local News

Paying wards will be set up at all main government hospitals within this year, a Health Ministry spokesman told the Daily News yesterday. He said this decision was taken by Health Minister Maithripala Sirisena to earn the income which is being diverted to private hospitals due to the absence of paying wards in government hospitals. […]

Indian External Affairs Minister S M Krishna will leave for Colombo on January 16 on a three-day visit to Sri Lanka during which he will discuss the progress in finding a political solution to the ethnic issue and inaugurate an India-assisted railway project. […]

Sri Lanka has lifted a moratorium on killing stray dogs as the government attempts to cut down on the 2,000 people that are hospitalised every day after being bitten, a media report said Saturday. […]

Five men suspected of murdering a British tourist in Sri Lanka early on Christmas Day have been remanded in custody until 20 January. The men are suspects in the death of Khuram Shaikh, 32, and the serious assault of his girlfriend in Tangalle, 100 miles (161km) south of Colombo. […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa presided over a progress review meeting of construction work relating to the 2012 Deyata Kirula Development Exhibition at Temple Trees yesterday. […]

Dayasiri Jayasekara who was removed as the Deputy National Organiser of the UNP speaking to Daily Mirror online said that he doesn’t understand where the party is headed with acts of revenge. […]

Contrary to popular expectations the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) presents a holistic narrative of the conflict as it unfolded between 2002 and 2009 an editorial of The Pioneer, an Indian English daily states. […]

The Special Task Force (STF) has been deployed to areas of the Galle road to control the large number of students from the Sri Jayawardenapura University who are heading to Temple Trees. […]

A petrol bomb blast was reported in the Sri Jayawardenapura University early this morning damaging a memorial statue within the University. The blast had occured at around 1.25am. Sources believe that the bomb was used by pro ragging students to dissuade ‘ ‘marshals’ who have been placed in the university to prevent ragging. […]

A massive scam where petrol is mixed with kerosene at a Lanka Indian Oil Corporation station in Kottawa, has been bared. […]

Five A/L examination papers of students who had sat for the examination on Buddhist Civilisation which had gone missing, were discovered on Tuesday (3), the Ceylon Teachers Services Union said yesterday. […]

A Sri Lankan who had misappropriated Rs.17.8 million from Sri Lankan properties belonging to popular Hollywood actress of X-Files fame Gillian Anderson, was remanded till January18, by Colombo Fort Magistrate Kanishka Wijeratne after taking into consideration the seriousness of the offence. […]

Youth Affairs and Skills Development Minister Dallus Alahapperuma yesterday attributed the GCE (A/L) examination results mess-up to the Examination Department assigning one data-entry operator to handle the workload of three workers. […]

The French government should ensure that publications like the four stamps issued by La Poste of France, depicting images related to the LTTE, including its insignia, should not happen and their publication be cancelled, said External Affairs Minister Prof G L Peiris yesterday. […]

The Minister of Power and Energy, the staff of the Ministry pledged this morning to make every effort to provide electricity to all within this year. […]

Sri Lankan Government spokesman, Media Minister Keheliya Rambukwella said that though the government is concerned about giving land and Police powers to the provinces it is prepared to consider its scope provided the Tamil national Alliance put forward its proposals at the talks with the government […]