Category: Local News

A Government log of attempts by asylum seekers to reach New Zealand shows a fishing trawler and its 248 Sri Lankan passengers have never been seen again.

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) of India on Thursday conducted searches in eight locations in Chennai and arrested a trader for allegedly possessing unaccounted cash, ganja and gold, among other things.

China has proposed setting up a radar base in Sri Lanka, aiming to counter India’s naval presence and strategic oversight in the Indian Ocean region, a report has claimed.

The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) has decided to suspend the law imposed by the Central Bank that a certain amount of dollars must be converted into Sri Lankan rupees from Sri Lankans living abroad and those receiving export income from this month.

At least 16 persons including the chief and assistant guards were injured and admitted to the Kantale Hospital after a train derailed in the area.

A preschool teacher was hacked to death early this morning (April 07) in the Kobbekaduwa area in Peradeniya.

Sri Lanka’s national carrier has been struggling against even more headwinds than many of its rivals.

Security camera footage showing a Sri Lankan woman before her death in a central Japan detention facility was publicly released Thursday for the first time by lawyers representing her family.

Workers’ remittances to Sri Lanka crossed the US$ 500 million mark for the first time since April 2021, data released by the Central Bank last evening showed.

Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Defence has issued a clarification on social media claims that a process of recording all telephone conversations, and storing and tracking data related to WhatsApp and Facebook accounts is currently underway.

The Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) announced that it acquired the 163 MW Combined Cycle Power Plant which was operated by Sojitz Kelanitissa (Pvt) Limited on March 28, 2023.

The Sri Lankan Government published its new Anti-Corruption Bill via a gazette.

GPS tracking systems will be fixed to all Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CEYPETCO) owned fuel tankers by April 15 and the process will be implemented for all private tankers later on, Sri Lanka’s Minister of Power and Energy Kanchana Wijesekera said.

As the 1990 Suwa Seriya ambulance service has run into a Rs. 1.5 billion shortfall in funds this year, a number of leading corporates have stepped up to fill the void by committing Rs. 525 million up to now, to maintain the operations of the critical service uninterpreted.

‘Athurugiriye Jeram’, a close associate of former Underworld figure Angoda Lokka, has been arrested by the Police Special Task Force (STF) over a shooting incident reported in Homagama on the 25th of March 2023.

Sri Lankan cricketer Danushka Gunathilaka, accused of sexually assaulting a woman he met on Tinder, can use Facebook and Instagram again after having his bail altered, Australian media reported.