Category: Local News

Sri Lankan police have arrested two more people for allegedly helping the gunmen who killed businessman Surendra Wasantha Perera, known as “Club Wasantha,” and another person.

The Sri Lankan Cabinet has approved a proposal for the government to apologize to communities affected by the mandatory cremation policy during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Ranjith Madduma Bandara, General Secretary of the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB), announced that the SJB will contest the upcoming Presidential Election as the strongest alliance in Sri Lanka’s political history.

Doctors of the National Eye Hospital in Colombo have called off their strike after the appointment of a new hospital director.

Singer K. Sujeewa, who was receiving treatment at Colombo National Hospital after being shot, has left the hospital.

Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe has guaranteed that the presidential election will be held, as the budget has allocated funds specifically for this purpose.

The body of a person who was stabbed to death has been found inside a parked three-wheeler at Ward Place in Colombo, police said.

The Colombo High Court has ordered the release of Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) General Secretary Ven. Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thero on bail, following a decision by the Court of Appeal.

While Sri Lanka has scrapped plans to sell a stake in its national carrier, SriLankan Airlines, after foreign offers it sought didn’t meet up to expectations, government officials say they are pursuing an alternate route which still includes attracting investors to the debt-ridden airline.

Former Member of Parliament Hirunika Premachandra, who was sentenced to a three-year jail term in connection with an abduction case from 2015, was granted bail today (July 22) by the Colombo High Court following a bail application filed by her attorney.

Teacher and principal unions in Sri Lanka are starting a ‘work-to-rule’ campaign today (July 22) that will last for two weeks.

A 32-year-old woman and her two sons, aged 9 and 14, drowned in an abandoned quarry filled with water at Kawanthissa Pura, Tissamaharama.

The people of the Gampaha district have decisively endorsed Ranil Wickremesinghe for re-election as President of Sri Lanka in the upcoming presidential election.

Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe stated that it is not feasible to indefinitely maintain the temporarily suspended Parate law.

Former Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena explained that the 19th Amendment to the Constitution aimed to limit the executive President’s powers and shorten the President’s term from six to five years.

Sri Lanka’s State Minister of Finance, Shehan Semasinghe, announced that an IMF delegation will visit Sri Lanka next week to review the country’s economic progress.