Category: Local News

Seven people accused in the Golden Key fraud case including former Ceylinco Chairman Lalith Kothalawela were released on a Rs. 5 million surety bail by the Colombo High Court today. […]

The Abimansala – a wellness resort which would provide lifetime care for totally dependent disabled War Heroes, was opened by President Mahinda Rajapaksa in Anuradhapura yesterday. […]

  A ransom of close to Rs.2 lakhs was paid to the kidnappers of the 15-year-old boy who was abducted from his residence in Mount Lavinia yesterday, Police stated. […]

A boy who was allegedly abducted from his house in Mount Lavinia yesterday has been found, Police told Ada Derana. Police stated that currently the boy was being brought back by his father from Ruwanwella. […]

Former Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga has condemned the current government, saying it has failed to win peace in the country after the war. She alleged that members of ethnic minorities are leaving the country in response to its policies. […]

Kumar Sangakkara, Sri Lankan cricketer and the former captain of the Sri Lanka national cricket team took off for Jaffna from Katunayake on a Helitours Antanov 32 flight yesterday (25th July 2011). […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa visited the Mihintale Raja Maha Viharaya and called on Viharadhipati Ven Namalwewa Ratanasara Thera yesterday morning. The President who inspected the development activities taking place in Mihintale, including the Mihintale Meda Maluwa access road and its environs, spoke to Minister Ranjith Siyambalapitiya and Maga Neguma chairman Jaliya Kulasekara over the phone and […]

UPFA MP Nishantha Muthuhettigama today paid Rs. 18,000 to the Galle Municipal Council in damages after he earlier removed an iron railing of the Galle bus stand. The railing was re-fixed under the protection of the police Special Task Force after directions were given by the Southern Provincial Council Chief Minister last week […]

This Article grabbed from: PR Web Tamils for Obama has been passing around DVDs of UK Channel 4’s documentary “Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields.” The Tamil group expects that increased viewing of this story of Sri Lankan horrors will bring greater awareness and sympathy to their movement. They also expect that the DVD will generate chatter […]

Sri Lanka will lose USD 13 million of development assistance from the US if it does not address accountability issues raised by Washington, a media report said. […]

UNP Colombo District MP Rosy Senanayake yesterday openly blamed her party leader Ranil Wickremesinghe for the latest electoral debacle suffered by the party and called for the head of the leader saying he must accept responsibility […]

The United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) secured a comfortable victory in the second phase of the Local Authorities election 2011 winning a total of 45 Local Councils out of 65 bodies. The main opposition United National Party (UNP) and the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) failed to win even a single Local Council at the election […]

The three member committee headed by Power and Energy Ministry Secretary M.M.C. Ferdinando, which is probing into the 20,000 tonnes substandard petrol import scam by the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation is now expected to hand over their findings next week. But the question being asked is whether that report will tell the whole truth because of […]

With the end of LG Polls on July 23, 2011the ruling UPFA is in control of 250 Local Government Institutions in the country out of 335 Institutions. […]

A US congressional committee voted to ban aid to Sri Lanka unless the nation shows “accountability” over the bloodshed in the final stages of its civil war in 2009. […]

NEW DELHI, July 21: Sri Lankan High Commissioner to India Prasad Kariyawasam today met Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayaram Jayalalithaa in Chennai—-the first such meeting between a Sri Lankan envoy and the state chief minister in more than half a century. […]