Category: Local News

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.

Jaffna police arrested five for possession of heroin in the Kokuvil and Ilavali area yesterday.

Matara district MP and Chairman Matara District development committee, Nipuna Ranawaka, addressing a press conference in Matara said that not a single new construction has been done at the Sinharaja World Heritage area and that what was being done was to widen an existing road.

Extensive investigations have been launched to identify and seize the assets of known drug lords who are known to have made hundreds of millions of rupees through this illegal trade, Police say.

An accomplice of underworld gang member ‘Angoda Lokka’, Chaminda Sandamal alias ‘Chamiya’ has died in Police gunfire in area of Gampaha today (22).

Another patient who tested positive for the Coronavirus has died today, marking the 12th death reported in Sri Lanka due to COVID-19.

The US State Department says it has granted $6 million in assistance to support areas and population affected by the COVID-19 crisis in Sri Lanka.

The Education Ministry has proposed that the leading schools in the country should adopt a mechanism to share their resources with the under-resourced schools of the country.

Graduates whose names were rejected under the government’s employment programme can send their appeals to the respective divisional secretariat by 15 September, says the Ministry of Public Administration.

The 19th Amendment to the Constitution passed by the former Government prevented the people from electing a new Government at the earliest while replacing a regime which had failed them, Foreign Relations Minister and Leader of the House Dinesh Gunawardena yesterday.

Minister of Health Pavithra Wanniarachchi said Sri Lanka will take measures to purchase the COVID-19 vaccine developed in Russia for local patients, once it received approval from the World Health Organisation (WHO).

Former UNP Karu Jayasuriya yesterday (21) urged President Gotabaya Rajapaksa not to do away with the 19th Amendment to the Constitution without consulting all stakeholders.