Category: Local News

Countrywide power failure has occurred in Sri Lanka this evening (December 09) due to a system breakdown in the main supply line, a senior Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) official said.

The proposed Electricity Bill will not be tabled in Parliament of Sri Lanka on December 13, 2023 but in January 2024, Minister of Power and Energy Kanchana Wijesekera said.

A stock of ‘Kush’ cannabis, estimated to have a street value of around Rs. 100 million, have been taken into custody by the officers of Police Narcotics Bureau (PNB) at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) in Katunayake.

Air Arabia has launched a new route connecting Abu Dhabi and Colombo on Wednesday (December 08).

A total of 1,877 naval personnel of the Sri Lanka Navy have been promoted to their next rank, effective from December 09, 2023.

Sri Lanka’s Excise Department has announced changes to the operating hours of liquor shops, effective December 09, 2023.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said Friday (December 08) that it has approved $200 million concessional loan to debt-stricken Sri Lanka to help stabilize the country’s finance sector following an unprecedented economic crisis that engulfed the Indian Ocean island nation last year.

Sri Lanka’s State Minister of Defence Premitha Bandara Tennakoon says Online youth radicalization in the South Asian region is a complex challenge that demands urgent attention.

Draft of the Sri Lanka Electricity Bill which aims to implement reforms to the electricity industry, and the establishment of the national electricity advisory council, has been published in the government gazette today (December 08).

Labour and Foreign Employment Minister Manusha Nanayakkara told Parliament yesterday (December 07) that a total of 900 Electric Vehicle import licences have been issued to Sri Lankans who have sent remittances here through legal channels and US$ 100 million has been remitted by persons under this scheme.

The officers of the Narcotics Control Unit of Sri Lanka Customs have seized a massive shipment of narcotics including a stock of dangerous drugs and ‘Kush’ cannabis with an estimated value of Rs. 60 million at the premises of a private logistics company in Seeduwa this evening (December 07).

The number of Dengue cases reported across Sri Lanka has increased to 78,322.

Three Sri Lankans including Captain Ranish Hewage, who were serving in the Ukraine military have been killed in a Russian military attack on Tuesday (December 05).

Former Director of the Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) DIG Nalaka de Silva has been released in the case filed over the alleged plot to assassinate former President Maithripala Sirisena and former Defence Secretary and President Gotabaya Rajapaksa in 2019.

Pressure is mounting on the UK to return the contested treasures of the British Museum after the Netherlands gave back six valuable artefacts stolen from Sri Lanka during the colonial period.

A Sri Lankan Police officer has committed suicide by shooting himself using his service firearm at the Peliyagoda Interchange on the Katunayake Expressway this morning (December 06).