Category: Local News

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa today inspected the Department of Motor Traffic (DMT) Office at Werahera, which was previously known as RMV, and instructed its officials to streamline the services.

A team of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and Special Task Force (STF) personnel are currently searching the residence of parliamentarian Rajitha Senaratne in Colombo 07 to arrest him.

MP Rajitha Senaratne‘s lawyers, who arrived in Court today to file a motion seeking a reversal on the arrest warrant issued on Dr. Senaratne, had decided not to do so.

A senior officer attached to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) said yesterday former Minister Rajitha Senaratne, against whom an arrest warrant had been issued over controversial statements made during a ‘white van’ media briefing, had not been present in both of his residences located in Colombo 7 and Beruwala.

Today marks the 15th anniversary since Sri Lanka faced the devastating Tsunami disaster that hit the island in 2004 killing over 35,000 people.

The JVP says there is no actual rice shortage in the country but only an artificial scarcity created by two leading businessmen capable of market manipulations.

The service weapon of a soldier on sentry duty at Bogaswewa camp in Vavuniya was taken away by unidentified persons after injuring the soldier.

Transport Service Management Minister Mahinda Amaraweera has taken steps to ban the loud music being played in private passenger transport buses from January 1.

Colombo Archbishop Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith has called on Christians to spend this Christmas with a great spirit of solidarity with the poor, the marginalised and especially in deep spiritual solidarity with all those who suffered as a result of the Easter Sunday tragedy.

A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Parliamentarian Rajitha Senaratne over the controversial ‘white van abductions’ media briefing.

Sri Lankan economist, academic and author Professor W. D. Lakshman assumed duties as the new Governor of Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) this morning.

Former Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka, who was arrested and remanded over an accident in Rajagiriya in 2016, has been released on bail.

The Colombo Crimes Division (CCD) informed Colombo Additional Magistrate Lochani Abeywickrama that according to statements given by former Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka, who is currently in remand, in connection with an accident that occurred in 2016, in which a youth named Sandeep Sampath was injured, he and former IGP Pujith Jayasundara, then Western Province Senior DIG, who is also in remand over the Easter Sunday attacks, had been in contact through their mobile phones.

At least three Indians including a woman and a Sri Lankan driver (67) were killed following a container lorry and van collision on the Southern Expressway (E-01) in Kurundugahahetekma this evening, the expressway police said.

MP Rajitha Senaratne today filed an anticipatory bail application for the third time in the Colombo Chief Magistrate’s Court seeking an order to prevent his arrest in connection with the ‘white van news conference’ held on November 10.

Former IGP Pujith Jayasundera, who was sent on compulsory leave, and former Defence Secretary Hemasiri Fernando were further remanded until 06th of January 2020 by Colombo Additional Magistrate Priyantha Liyanage today.