Category: Local News

  Sri Lanka and Russia are to commence direct air links from this year.  Accordingly, Sri Lankan airlines and Aeroflot will begin to fly between Moscow and Colombo. Sri Lankan airlines will commence flights to Moscow on September 15th and Aeroflot will begin flights to Colombo from November. […]

The Sri Lanka Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (SLTRC) yesterday ruled out any involvements concerning the alleged blocking of certain independent news sites that had occurred on June 20. […]

SAARC Secretary General Fathimath Dhiyana Saeed yesterday said that SAARC member countries should get together and extend their fullest support to Sri Lanka at this juncture. […]

The Government will implement a Sustainable Power Sector Support project in line with the government’s target of providing electricity to all households by end of 2012. […]

Thirty Sri Lankan labourers in south Iraq on Tuesday ended a week-long hunger strike over demands for two years of back pay after assurances from local human rights officials, a local mayor said. […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa would not be stifled by conspiracies to prevent him from travelling and would remain dedicated to Sri Lanka’s progress, External Affairs Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris said. […]

Taxi drivers in Sri Lanka’s capital held up traffic today, demanding the government should stop allowing anymore use Tata Nanos on the streets that offer stiff competition to the ubiquitous three-wheelers. Hundreds of three-wheel taxis choked parts of the city for over an hour to protest against a taxi company, linked to a ruling party […]

A major fire has broken out at a rubber manufacturing plant in Kerawalapitiya situated close to the Kerawalapitiya Cycle Power Plant. Several teams have been dispatched by the Colombo Fire Brigade (CFB), spokesperson for the CFB said. (SD) […]

Sri Lanka has rejected a US court summons served on President Mahinda Rajapaksa over a USD 30 million damages suit against him.The summons, first delivered to ‘Temple Trees’ but not accepted there, was later received by the Ministry of Justice, which rejected it. […]

The Defence Ministry today stated that Issipriya woman alleged to have been a journalist and a news presenter by the Channel 4 documentary was indeed an LTTE cadre. The Ministry also released a photograph of the identity card issued by the LTTE to Issipriya, in which she was clad in combat attire, confirming her military […]

Led by MP Mavai Senadhiraja, TNA MPs arrive at Jaffna Civil Affairs Office on Saturday to meet Jaffna Commander Maj. Gen. Mahinda Hathurusinghe. In the background is one of the vehicles, which the TNA said was damaged by the army – Pix by The Island. Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa directed Jaffna Army Commander Major General […]

UNP Deputy Leader Karu Jayasuriya who paid a glowing tribute to late Prime Minister Dudley Senanayake yesterday on his birth centenary said politicians should possess the ability of forming a government bringing all people with diverse political views. […]

  Sri Lanka’s online visa system will become operational before the onset of the European winter in September, the Immigration chief said yesterday. Nearly 70 percent of the project has already been completed and now we are working on the technical modalities, Immigration and Emigration chief Chulananda Perera told the Sunday Times. […]

The CID in its investigations have determined that when the police said that they had opened fire to save Senior DIG Ravi Wijegunawardena, who was being attacked allegedly by FTZ workers on May 30, the DIG was in fact in hospital. […]

“We respect the sovereignty of Sri Lanka and oppose external forces intervening in the internal affairs of Sri Lanka,” President of China Hu Jintao said in the course of bilateral talks he had with President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the Corintia Nevsky Hotel yesterday. […]

IGP Dr. Mahinda Balasuriya yesterday, (16 June) paid his farewell call on Secretary to the Ministry of Defence Mr. Gotabaya Rajapaksa at his office. […]