Category: Local News

State Minister of Urban Development, Coast Conservation, Waste Disposal and Public Sanitation Dr. Nalaka Godahewa told Parliament yesterday that the site of the Meethotamulla garbage dump would be converted into a modern urban park at an estimated cost of Rs 1.7 billion.

Minister of Public Security, Rear Admiral (retired) Sarath Weerasekara yesterday (3), opined that it was a big mistake not banning the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) after winning the war in 2009.

Sparks of terrorism were still surfacing from the smoldering ashes even though the political leaders boasted in air-conditioned rooms that they had ended the war, former army commander and SJB Gampaha District MP Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka said in Parliament yesterday.

Five more COVID-19 related deaths have been reported in Sri Lanka, the Department of Government Information confirmed a short while ago.

Governor of the Central Province Lalith U Gamage has issued an Extraordinary Gazette Notification, removing Daljith Aluwihare from his post as Mayor of the Matale Municipal Council.

Consumer rights groups and opposition lawmakers yesterday alleged that the CEB and some power producers had engineered the disbanding of the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL), and the government’s decision to close down the PUCSL would pave the way for backdoor power project deals..

A sustainable solution has been found to the ever-increasing waste plastic problem in Sri Lanka by an innovative technology that converts non-recyclable plastic as a raw material to modify asphalt as a value-added product called plastic modified asphalt concrete to be used extensively in the highway road carpeting sector..

It is not “Sir” or the Government that has failed, but those who voted for this Government, UNP Deputy Leader Ruwan Wijewardene said on Sunday.

An inmate, who was under medical care at the Colombo North Teaching Hospital in Ragama after sustaining injuries during the Mahara Prison riot, has escaped last night (02).

Two more COVID-19 related deaths have been reported in Sri Lanka, the Department of Government Information confirmed a short while ago.

Sri Lanka evacuated 75,000 people from homes on the east coast, where tropical cyclone Burevi, packing winds of 80 kph to 90 kph (50 mph to 56 mph) is expected to hit the island nation late on Wednesday.

Lohan Ratwatte has been sworn in as the new State Minister of Prisons Management and Prisoners’ Rehabilitation.

The cyclonic storm ‘Burevi’ very likely to cross Sri Lanka and rainy, windy conditions are expected to enhance considerably over the island owing to this development, the Department of Meteorology says.

Teachers earned less than kottu makers and it was only natura that they were downhearted, Parliament was told yesterday (1).

The death toll in the Mahara Prison unrest on 29 November evening and 30 November rose to 11, when three more inmates admitted to the Ragama Teaching Hospital succumbed to injuries yesterday (01).

Four more COVID-19 related deaths have been reported in Sri Lanka, the Department of Government Information confirmed a short while ago.