Category: Local News

Leader of the Opposition Sajith Premadasa says the former government in place during the Easter Sunday bombings accepts responsibility for the attacks.

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa yesterday countered with solid facts on falsehoods over the Report of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into Easter Sunday attacks that was submitted to him on 1 February being propagated by certain groups seeking undue political advantage.

It will cos tat least Rs 8,000 million to change the plan of the Central Expressway in a way that protects the rare Crudia Zeylanica tree that lies on its path, said State Minister of Rural Roads and other Infrastructure, Nimal Lanza.

There had been a delay in pressing charges against those involved in the Easter Sunday carnage because the government was waiting for the report of the PCoI on those attacks, Minister of Public Security, Dr. Sarath Weerasekera said yesterday.

Tourism Minister Prasanna Ranatunga stated that a need to declare a ‘Black Sunday’ would not have come up if the previous ‘Good Governance’ government had fulfilled its responsibilities.

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

Sri Lankan Roman Catholics attended Mass dressed in black on Sunday, with prayers and protests calling for justice for those killed in coordinated suicide bomb attacks on Easter Sunday two years ago.

Arun Siddharth, the youth who has embarked on a journey to swim against the popular tide, launched a people’s march on February 28 from Point Dondra, Matara to Jaffna to unify Tamils and Sinhalese to fight against external forces driven by ‘geopolitics’ and ‘neoliberal strategies’.

The JVP says the government has limited the country to statements of intent solely based on nationalism, race and religion.

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

Leader of the Opposition Sajith Premadasa says the Samagi Jana Balawegaya is prepared to cooperate with all parties for the forest conservation process despite political differences.

The 13th phase of the Gama Samaga Pilisandarak programme will be held in the village of Weragala in the Giribawa Divisional Secretariat in Kurunegala District today (06), under the Auspices of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.

Two persons returning from a night club in a car were arrested for causing a hit-and- run accident in which an individual was killed and three others sustained injuries on the Marine Drive in Wellawatta this morning.

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

The cancer ward of the Badulla General Hospital has been closed after 34 persons including a doctor contracted COVID-19 virus.

Foreign Secretary Admiral Jayanath Colombage firmly rebuked a widely distributed article by Ahimsa Wickrematunge published yesterday in the Washington Post criticising President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and the present government for denying justice for the murder of her father, founding editor of The Sunday Leader Lasantha Wickrematunge, who was killed in 2009.