Category: Local News

An accomplice of underworld kingpin ‘Angoda Lokka’ has been arrested in Ambathale in possession of 42kg of heroin valued at over Rs.420 million and a stock of firearms.

Four persons including a prison guard and a civil worker attached to the Sri Lanka Air Force had been arrested over involving drugs trafficking at the Mahara Prison, the Police said.

Officers from the Police Unit of the Presidential Commission probing Easter Sunday attacks arrived at former President Maithripala Sirisena’s Colombo residence to record a statement a short while ago.

The Government has decided to make vocational guidance compulsory in schools for grades 6 and above, education officials said.

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa stating that it is high time to increase agro harvest in order to strengthen the local economy has proposed a number of actions to reach this outcome.

Minister of Energy, Udaya Gammanpila yesterday (25), reiterated his pledge that he will not be a part of the Government if Parliamentarian Rishad Bathiudeen joins it.

Latest statistics on the outbreak of Coronavirus / COVID-19 in Sri Lanka for the day 25 August 2020, according to the Health Promotion Bureau.

The meeting of the United National Party (UNP) Working Committee has ended today without a decision on party leadership.

The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) has seized 11 kilograms of heroin, estimated to be worth around Rs 100 million, along with several firearms and also arrested one suspect during operations at Telwatte and Ratgama areas in Galle.

The Supreme Court has concluded the Contempt of Court case filed against Parliamentarian Ranjan Ramanayake.

The Court of Appeal today issued an interim injunction order preventing the execution of the warrants issued for the arrest of Mayor of Kurunegala Thushara Sanjeewa and four others over the ‘Kings Court’ building demolition case.

The State Intelligence Service (SIS), following the Easter Sunday 21 April 2019 bombings, received information that close relatives of the bombers, killed in the Easter Sunday bombings, could launch a second attack targeting hospitals, shopping malls, supermarkets, Police Stations and the Indian High Commission, said former Director of the SIS, Senior SDIG, Nilantha Jayawardena.

Some drug-addicted inmates have committed suicide within the last week due to the government’s crackdown on narcotics, Commissioner General of Prisons Thushara Upuldeniya revealed.

Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Chairman and Education Minister Prof. G.L.Peiris yesterday stressed that the government has not taken any decision to create a position of Deputy Prime Minister through a Constitutional Amendment.

The Telecommunications Regulatory Commission of Sri Lanka announced it initiated preliminary steps on implementing the Number Portability service which would enable consumers to select service providers without changing the existing mobile numbers.

Former Speaker of House and Former Deputy Leader of the United National Party Karu Jayasuriya says he has informed the leadership of the UNP that he is prepared to lead the party.