Category: Local News

Leaders of the previous ‘Good Governance’ government were preoccupied taking revenge on my family members and close associates by instituting false court cases against us. Therefore, they had no time to carry out any development work for the country and the people during the past five years, said Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa.

Police headquarters will soon request Attorney General Dappula de Livera to establish a three-judge bench to try those officers and men of the Police Narcotics Bureau (PNB) taken into custody over unprecedented large scale drug dealing with the underworld.

A 39-year-old three-wheeler driver, who was stopped at a Police road block at Lunawa, Moratuwa, has been shot dead by police following an altercation, police said.

The Colombo High Court today ordered to discharge former MP Tiran Alles and three others from controversial Reconstruction and Development Agency (RADA) case.

03 persons died including a woman when a Three-wheeler collided with a lorry in Warunagama, Wellawaya.

Latest statistics on the outbreak of Coronavirus / COVID-19 in Sri Lanka for the day 10 July 2020, according to the Health Promotion Bureau.

The quarantine centre in Kandakadu has been converted into a hospital in order to treat COVID-19 infected patients from the Kandakadu Treatment and Rehabilitation Centre, Army Commander Shavendra Silva said.

Rohan Pradeep alias Kalu Malli, a close associate of an organized criminal Kosgoda Tharaka, has been arrested in Angoda with heroin.

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has given the Cabinet of Ministers two more weeks to submit their opinions on the Lalithasiri Gunaruwan report on the proposed controversial Millennium Challenge Cooperation (MCC) agreement with the USA, Media and Higher Education Minister Bandula Gunawardane said yesterday.

Latest statistics on the outbreak of Coronavirus / COVID-19 in Sri Lanka for the day 09 July 2020, according to the Health Promotion Bureau.

The Cabinet of Ministers has approved a 25% concessionary reduction of the total value of electricity bills issued for the months of March, April and May, during which the country was in lockdown to prevent the unhindered spread of COVID-19.

The Welikada prison inmates who were subjected to PCR tests have tested negative for COVID-19, army commander Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva said.

The movie “The Newspaper” received a Commendation award at the IndieFEST Film festival, California, USA.

The UNP has complained to the Election Commission (EC) against its off-shoot, Samagi Jana Balavegaya, using the green colour in its election campaigns and sought the commission’s immediate intervention to stop it.

A new development programme has been prepared to be implemented soon after the General Election to create more job opportunities for unemployed youth, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa said.

A suspect who sustained serious burn injuries in an explosion at a house in Iyakachchi, in the Palai, Kilinochchi Police division has succumbed to injuries.