Category: Local News

The Attorney General indicted former MP Sajin Vas Gunawardana at the Colombo High Court for laundering money of over 306 million rupees.

People need not fear former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa and he would not become a strict leader, Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) National Organiser Basil Rajapaksa said today.

Sri Lanka on Wednesday charged two army spies for a decade-old serious assault of a newspaper editor in the wake of the shock assassination of high-profile anti-establishment journalist Lasantha Wickrematunge.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe says the government must lay the platform for a new revolution in the next five years.

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has arrived in Cambodia on a visit to expand the countries’ cooperation in economic, trade, tourism and cultural fields.

The Acting OIC of Welamboda Police has been interdicted for deciding to return 76 machete knives and 16 axes that were taken into custody from a mosque, the Police Media Spokesperson SP Ruwan Gunasekara said.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and Minister Sajith Premadasa have held crisis talks, amidst a major rift within the United National Party over the proposed new alliance and the next Presidential Candidate.

Leader of the Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU), MP Udaya Gammanpila, on 4 August, addressed a conference organised by ‘STOP USA’, in Kandy, regarding the alleged intervention of the United States.

A State Intelligence Service (SIS) report presented in November 2016 didn’t identify the National Thawheed Jamath (NTJ) as an organization engaging in terrorist activities but as an entity promoting extremist religious views, former Law, Order and Southern Development Minister Sagala Ratnayaka told the Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) appointed to probe the Easter Sunday terror attacks yesterday.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, yesterday, said that the entire government and Cabinet of ministers were responsible for the mistakes and lapses that permitted the Easter Sunday terror attacks.

Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa and President Maitripala Sirisena had a crucial discussion last night with regards to the formation of an alliance in view of the upcoming Presidential elections, informed sources said.

Short story writer Shakthika Sathkumara who was in remand custody for 127 days was granted bail by the Kurunegala High Court yesterday.

Sri Lanka’s president said Monday that the attorney general has informed him that a bill presented to Parliament last week seeking to abolish the death penalty is illegal.

The disposal of garbage at a site in Kerawalapitiya has been suspended by the Sri Lanka Land Reclamation and Development Corporation.

Sri Lankan police say they have arrested three members of a banned Islamic organization linked to Easter Sunday suicide bomb attacks that killed more than 250 people.

United Peoples Freedom Alliance (UPFA) Kurunegala District MP Salinda Dissanayake passed away at the age of 61 at a private hospital today.