Category: Local News

Three individuals died of electrocution yesterday (December 29) in the Norochcholai Mampuriya area.

Thisara Iroshana Nanayakkara, the brother of former Foreign Employment Minister Manusha Nanayakkara, has been remanded until January 6, 2025, following his appearance before the Gampaha Magistrate’s Court.

Sri Lanka’s Defence Secretary, Air Vice Marshal Sampath Thuyacontha (Retd), emphasized the government’s commitment to modernizing the nation’s defence forces with advanced technologies and equipment.

A key discussion was held today (December 28) at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo with the heads of Sri Lanka’s Department of Immigration and Emigration, Sri Lanka Customs, and Airport and Aviation Services.

The Consumer Affairs Authority (CAA) has announced new maximum retail prices for specific types of canned fish, effective today (December 28), as stipulated in an Extraordinary Gazette notification.

The brother of former Minister Manusha Nanayakkara, Thisara Iroshana Nanayakkara, has been arrested by officers from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in the Bibile area.

Major Neville Wanniarachchi, the Chief Security Officer of former Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, provided a four-hour statement to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) yesterday (December 27).

A former member of the Western Provincial Council, Salochana Gamage, and a businessman have been arrested in the Pita Kotte area for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs. 9 million.

The National Medicines Regulatory Authority (NMRA) has temporarily suspended the licenses of 60 pharmacies in Sri Lanka over the past five months.

Sri Lanka Customs has reported that 72,000 metric tonnes of rice were imported into the country as of yesterday morning (December 27).

Gathering oral comments from the general public on the proposed amendments to electricity tariffs in Sri Lanka will begin today (December 27).

The Ministry of Digital Economy in Sri Lanka has launched a special program to promote digital payments across the country.

An 81-year-old Sri Lankan woman passed away following an emergency landing of a Qatar Airways flight at Erbil International Airport on Wednesday. The incident was confirmed by Ahmed Jalal, Sri Lanka’s honorary consul in Erbil.

Sri Lanka has welcomed its 2 millionth tourist of 2024, who arrived today (December 26) at 10:49 AM on flight UL 403 from Bangkok at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA).

The Sri Lanka Police have issued special instructions on how traffic officers should operate when stopping vehicles at night.

A two-minute silence will be observed across Sri Lanka today (December 26) from 9:25 AM to 9:27 AM as a mark of respect for those who lost their lives in the tsunami disaster that struck the coastal belt of Sri Lanka on December 26, 2004.