Category: Local News

The Defence Ministry has decided to issue air pistols instead of firearms to farmers and cultivators to protect their cultivations and poultry farms, reports say. […]

The UNP yesterday said that Sunday’s killing of a foreign tourist, Kuram Shaika, an Arab-Israeli holding British citizenship and causing injuries to his female companion, at Nature resort at Medilla, Tangalle underscored the failure on the part of the government and the police to disarm politicians as recently pointed out by the Lessons Learnt and […]

Colombo – Cairn India, a unit of the British exploration firm Cairn Energy, said on Monday that it hopes to start the second phase of drilling oil and natural gas deposits off Sri Lanka. […]

Chairman of the Tangalle Pradeshiya Sabha, who was wanted in connection to the killing of a British tourist, has surrendered himself to the police. […]

A person has died after been stabbed following a clash between two groups in Maradana […]

Police have still been unable to apprehend the chief suspect and several other suspects in connection to the murder of a British national at a resort in Tangalle Sunday morning. […]

Secretary to the Ministry of Higher Education, Doctor Sunil Jayantha Navarathna says that the islandwide and district rankings issued  following the release of the GCE Advanced Level Examination results, have been cancelled. […]

Results of the 2011 G.C.E. Advanced Level examination was released online yesterday night, Commissioner General of the Examinations Department confirmed. Results could be obtained via the website www.doenets.lk […]

The train caught in Giant Tsunami wave in Peraliya A two minute silence will be observed nationwide today at 9.25 am to remember over 40,000 people killed by the tsunami that hit Sri Lanka in 2004. […]

A foreigner was killed during a confrontation with several locals inside a hotel in Tangalle, police media spokesman Ajith Rohana said. […]

In spite of being re-elected at Monday’s election by secret ballot at Sirikotha, UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe is facing the fight of his political life, with UNP’s No 2, Sajith Premadasa disputing Wickremesinghe’s allegations directed against Sirasa media network. Parliamentarian Premadasa is on a collision course over Wickremesinghe accusing Sirasa of conspiring with Reformists to […]

The Police Department has deployed a large number of police personnel both in uniform and mufti, to provide security to the public during the festive season, said Police Media Spokesman SSP Ajith Rohana. […]

Former Army Commander Sarath Fonseka was brought to a private hospital for physio therapy on Friday. His wife Anoma Fonseka said that the former Army Commander is being treated for ailments in his shoulders and knees. […]

“I am pleased to share the joy of Christmas with all who celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ,” President Mahinda Rajapaksa said in a Christmas message. […]

Archbishop of Colombo Rev Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith on Thursday said that Sri Lanka is capable of solving its own problems and attempts by some to run to the international community to solve problems is not acceptable. […]

Sri Lankan Airlines recommenced flights to Zurich, the latest destinatio in the continuous expansion of its global route network, yesterday.  Zurich was served by Sri Lanka’s National Carrier for a quarter of a centure from 1980.  It was suspended in 2005  due to ‘a global slump in air travel.’ […]