Category: Local News

Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Leader, R. Sampanthan had written to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister, Mahinda Rajapaksa, objecting to the appointment of Sinhala government officers to the Northern Province, former TNA MP Mavai Senathirajah told journalists on Wednesday (28).

Senior DIG (Attorney-at-Law) Ajith Rohana who is in charge of the Crimes and Traffic Division and also served as the Police Spokesperson was appointed as Director of the National Child Protection Authority.

The Lanka Private Bus Owners’ Association (LPBOA) has decided to make COVID vaccine cards compulsory for inter provincial travelling from August 1.

The dedicated COVID-19 wards and the ICU at the Lady Ridgeway Hospital for Children were almost full, hospital Director, Dr. G. Wijesuriya said yesterday.

A 41-year-old woman has been arrested for operating five bank accounts and allegedly involved in drug trafficking.

A three-member panel of Experts appointed today (28) to conduct the second postmortem of the death of Jude Kumar Ishalini, the 16-year-old girl who was employed as a domestic servant at former minister Rishad Bathiudeen’s residence, Senior DIG Ajith Rohana said.

Parliamentarian Harin Fernando arrived at the CID to record a statement a short while ago over the Easter Sunday terror attacks.

Colombo District MP Dr. Harsha de Silva, founder of 1990 Suwaseriya Pre Hospital Care Ambulance Service said yesterday that it had been launched amidst various obstacles. He said so on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the ambulance service, which falls today (28).

Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa said yesterday that the issue regarding salary anomalies of principals and teachers and the transformation of the Teacher-Principals’ Service into a ‘Closed Service’ will be taken after the Cabinet meeting next Monday.

A Sri Lankan worker at a plastic manufacturing factory in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province,South Korea died in an industrial accident,the Korea Times reported.

Sri Lankan authorities say the world’s largest star sapphire cluster has been found in a backyard – by accident.

Sri Lanka has settled the scheduled debt of USD 01 billion International Sovereign Bond Issue yesterday (July 26), State Minister Ajith Nivard Cabraal said.

The Police is to conduct special operations in the Colombo City and suburbs in the Western Province from today to trace underage children who are working as domestic helpers, Police Spokesman SDIG Ajith Rohana said.

Eight persons died of COVID pneumonia at the Karapitiya Teaching Hospital in Galle on Sunday (25), the respective post-mortems carried out on the deaths revealed.

Approval has been granted at the Cabinet meeting for the state sector to purchase products of the Saline Factory from 1 September.

The Colombo Magistrate’s Court today ordered to remand MP Rishad Bathiudeen’s wife, father-in-law, brother-in-law and the broker until August 09 in connection with the suspicious death of a teenage domestic worker who had been employed at MP Bathiudeen’s home.