Category: Local News

Sri Lanka Police have discovered Rs. 13.9 Million in cash buried in a house located in Kottawa, Pannipitiya.

A criminal wanted for multiple crimes was gunned down by the Police Special Task Force early morning today (18) on Baseline Road, Seeduwa.

Former MP Duminda Silva, who was serving a death sentence over the killing of Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra but was released from jail on a special presidential pardon last month has been appointed as the Chairman of the National Housing Development Authority.

MP Rishad Bathiudeen, who is currently in the custody of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), has been hospitalized.

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said that the obstacles existed in the University Grants Commission Act will be removed and the Kotelawala Defence University will be brought under its purview.

Sri Lanka Police is making plans to initiate a mechanism to resolve public issues at village level through community police units.

The National Medicine Regulatory Authority (NMRA) yesterday granted approval for the Emergency Use of Sinovac Covid 19 vaccine manufactured in China.

During a search operation carried out by the Kelaniya Police last night, three suspects were arrested in Kelaniya for the possession of 800 kilograms of turmeric that was illegally imported.

Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna parliamentarian Professor Ranjith Bandara says the public will witness economic management of the present government in the coming days.

Ceylon Teachers Union General Secretary Joseph Stalin, Frontline Socialist Party Politburo Member Duminda Nagamuwa and several others who were detained in quarantine centres were released yesterday.

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa today instructed officials to launch a mobile vaccination service for those who are suffering from illnesses and unable to leave their homes.

The Director-General of Health Services has relaxed the restrictions that were in force for several more sectors effective from today (July 16).

A fire has broken out at the canteen and old hostel of Maradana Police Station early this morning (July 16).

Former Home Affairs Minister and UNP Chairman Wajira Abeywardena, at a Media conference yesterday (15), claimed more than 600,000 Sri Lankans have applied for visas at Foreign Embassies and High Commissions to enter other countries

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has ordered an investigation of allegations that some members of state intelligence agencies knew and met with people who carried out Easter Sunday bombings in 2019 that killed more than 260 people, a government official said.

Directives have been issued to security units to promptly arrest the suspects involved in hurling rocks at religious places of worship in Mannar, The Secretary of Defence Rt. General Kamal Gunaratne said.