Category: Local News

A 24-year-old Sri Lankan Tamil man swam about seven nautical miles in the Palk Strait and reached Dhanushkodi on Sunday (October 09).

Dairy producers in Sri Lanka have confirmed that dairy production has dropped by 30%.

A Colombo-based human rights groups has called on the Sri Lankan government to do more and take responsibility for seven of its citizens who said they were captured and tortured by Russians in eastern Ukraine.

Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe said that he intends to reduce the number of council members for local government bodies from 8,000 to 4,000, prior to the next election.

Supreme Court Justice Buwaneka Pandukabaya Aluwihare has taken oath as the Acting Chief Justice before Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe.

The Cabinet will take up tomorrow (October 10) a proposal for Sri Lanka to revert from a middle-income country to a low-income country with the aim of obtaining concessionary funding from the International Development Association (IDA) – an arm of the World Bank which helps the world’s poorest and most vulnerable countries.

Former Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa appeared in public for the first time since his resignation in May as Prime Minister when he attended a Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) propaganda rally yesterday (October 08) in Kalutara.

Sri Lanka faces hardships in the current economic context; however, the island nation has been successful in braving through the challenges and remaining a favourite destination among travellers across the world.

The Ministry of Education expected to abolish the National School concept which causes many problems and replace it with the leading school concept, Minister of Education Susil Premajayantha said.

Member of Parliament Namal Rajapaksa was appointed yesterday (October 07) as the Chairman of the Committee on Identifying the Priorities in Formulation of Short, Medium & Long-Term National Policies of the National Council.

G.C.E. Advanced Level (A/L) Examination and the Grade five Scholarship examination for the year 2022 have been postponed, the Department of Examinations announced.

Student Activist Hashan Jeewantha Gunathilake who was detained under a 90-day detention order under the provisions of the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) was released by the Tangalle Magistrate’s Court today (October 07).

The Ministry of Defence clarifies in a press release on Extradition of Wickramaratne Nandun Chintaka aka Herath Dissanayakege Roshan Isanka aka ‘Harak Kata’ to Sri Lanka.

While explaining India’s vote on the resolution on promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka, Indra Mani Pandey, the country’s permanent representative in Geneva, said that the progress made so far by the Sri Lankan government to meet the aspirations of the Tamil minority “remains inadequate”.

The Supreme Court of Sri Lanka has granted leave to proceed with the two fundamental rights (FR) petitions filed against former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, former Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa and several others.

The Sapugaskanda Oil Refinery will be closed from today (October 07) due to the shortage in foreign exchange for crude oil cargo, announced Sri Lanka’s Power and Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekera.