Category: Local News

Former Minister of Finance Basil Rajapaksa arrived in Sri Lanka this morning (November 20) after spending around one and half months in the United States.

An underworld figure named Mariputthu Ganesan, alias “Manna Kanna” was gunned down and injured in a shooting incident in Grandpass this morning (November 19).

The main suspect involved in trafficking of Sri Lankan women to Dubai and Oman has been arrested by the Police.

Sri Lanka’s World Cup-winning captain Arjuna Ranatunga has been ordered to pay $70,000 in a defamation case arising from a long-running feud over control of the island nation’s cash-rich cricket board.

Police have fired tear gas and water cannons on Inter-University Students’ Federation (IUSF) protestors at Bauddhaloka Mawatha, close to the UN Headquarters, police said.

A Major of Sri Lanka Army Gajaba Regiment in Saliyapura and two others died in a tragic motor accident in Gamgaluwa on Thursday (November 17) night.

An increasing number of complaints are received daily from Sri Lankan female domestic workers who arrived in Oman under visit or tourist visas intending to convert them to work visas, The Embassy of Sri Lanka in Muscat, Oman said.

Two individuals, who are said to be accomplices of the notorious underworld figure “Uragaha Indika” have been shot dead in a shootout with the Police Special Task Force (STF) at Polwatta in ​Minuwangoda this morning (November 18).

Wasantha Mudalige and Venerable Galwewa Siridhamma Thero who were detained under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) were remanded this evening (November 17) just hours away from when the 90-day detention order on them was to come to an end.

Sri Lanka has postponed a round of debt restructuring talks initially expected to be held on Thursday to allow central bank and treasury officials to provide clarifications sought by the country’s creditors, its state minister of finance said.

The Government has not made any decision to restructure domestic debt, State Minister of Finance Shehan Semasinghe clarified today (November 17).

The Department of Motor Traffic (DMT) has revised the motor vehicle registration fees and other vehicle related fees from tomorrow (18 November).

The tourist arrivals for the first 15 days of November stood at 27,213, making Sri Lanka inches away from crossing the 600,000 arrival mark for the year.

State Minister of Finance Ranjith Siyambalapitiya yesterday (November 16) said that there is no possibility of essential commodity prices rising due to the revision of CESS tax.

Sri Lanka has decided to increase the fees levied on passports with effect from tomorrow (November 17).

Sri Lanka, India and several other countries abstained from voting on a draft resolution approved by the UN General Assembly that recognised that Russia must be responsible for making reparations to Ukraine.