Category: Local News

Police officers assigned for VIP security should be in their uniforms while on such duty, said Police Spokesperson SSP Maxi Proctor. This regulation which comes into immediate effect, will be strictly enforced. He told the Daily News that all Police officers engaged in VIP security and attached to the Ministerial Security Division (MSD) and Police […]

  The board of Directors of the Sri Jayawardenapura Hospital have been dissolved with immediate effect, the Ministry of Health stated. […]

The CID arrested a suspect today with sixteen guns in connection with the Mulleriyawa shooting incident. This included 12 pistols, two revolvers and two T56 assault rifles. […]

India will help in re-building 79 schools in the war-affected Northern Province of Sri Lanka at a cost of LKR 160 million, Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai said here on Monday. […]

The death toll from the shooting incident which took place in Mulleriyawa on Election Day (Oct. 8 ) has risen to four after one of the victims who was admitted to the Colombo General Hospital succumbed to injuries. […]

Sanjeewa Bandara, an eye witness to the Mulleriyawa shooting incident said that supporters of MP Duminda Silva opened fire at late MP Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra felling him, in front of police officers on the day of polling. […]

The CID DIG had deployed a special police team headed by senior CID officers to conduct investigations into the killing of Presidential Trade Union Advisor and former Colombo District Parliamentarian Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra. […]

The ruling UPFA, led by President Mahinda Rajapaksa, won all but two of the 23 local government bodies that went to the polls yesterday (Oct. 08). […]

UNP Kurunegala District MP Dayasiri Jayasekara speaking to the Daily Mirror online today said that the authorities should have investigated the allegations he made in Parliament on Thursday instead of ordering him out of the house. “During my speech I specifically brought up the thuggery and intimidation that was taking place in Mulleriyawa. I showed […]

Voter turnout at the Local Government polls held today ( October 8 ) has been 55 to 60 percent, according to the PAFFREL organization. […]

Hospital sources say MP Duminda Silva is out of danger, two bullets have been removed from his head and the surgery continues […]

The investigation into the shooting incident that took place in Mulleriyawa has been handed over to the CID, Police Spokesman Maxi Proctor said a short while ago. From the shootout Former Parliamentarian and Presidential Adviser Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra and two more persons were killed. […]

Former Parliamentarian and Presidential Adviser Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra has been killed following a shooting incident which took place in Kolonnawa today (October 8), sources confirmed. […]

All arrangements are in place to hold a free and fair election today to elect 420 members to 23 Local Government bodies which include 17 Municipal Councils, one Urban Council and five Pradeshiya Sabhas. […]

Sri Lanka’s Special Task Force (STF) units which specialise in counter terrorist operations and VIP security will be providing part of the security for the 17th SAARC summit which is due to be held in Addu City, Maldives in November, Maldivian media reports. […]

Tamil expatriate in Canada T S Swarnam expressed his strong displeasure over the nomination of Neethan Shan as the candidate of the New Democratic Party (NDP) in Scarborough Rouge River for the upcoming provincial election in Canada. He observed that Neethan Shan has been an active campaigner for the LTTE for more than a decade, […]