Category: Local News

The United States wants a special forces cooperation agreement with Sri Lanka to sidestep bureaucracy and has no intention of setting up a military base in the country, the American ambassador to the island nation said in a television interview.

Postal unions will launch a ‘sick note campaign’ from midnight today to draw the attention of the government to several unresolved issues.

A suspect has been apprehended for being in possession of 203 Kgs of Kerala cannabis in Andiyapuliyankulam in the Mannar district during a raid conducted by the Parayanakulam Police.

The Defender vehicle, which was recently involved in the attack on a van at Kalagedihena, has been found at a residence in Maharagama area, says the Police Media Spokesperson SP Ruwan Gunasekara.

The special trial-at-bar today served indictments against Perpetual Treasuries Limited (PTL) owner Arjun Aloysius and several others and granted bail in connection with the Treasury bond scam.

The Financial Crimes Investigation Division (FCID) yesterday informed the Colombo Chief Magistrate’s Court that US$100 million had been remitted from Saudi Arabia to build the Batticaloa Campus.

An incident has been reported where officials travelling in two VIP vehicles, allegedly not being allowed to overtake a van, had proceeded to assault a van driver in the Kalagedihena area on the Colombo-Kandy (A1) Road.

The United States Government will not buy, sell, or own any actual land under Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Compact, says the US Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Alaina B. Teplitz.

World Bank Vice President for South Asia Region, Hartwig Schafer said that the World Bank will increase assistance to Sri Lanka under three of its new operations. They include assisting the agriculture sector faced with climatic vagaries, irrigation, renewable energy, climate resilience operations and renovation of tanks in rural areas.

Spill gates of the Kotmale, Laxapana and Wimalasurendra reservoirs have been opened due to the incessant rains experienced in these areas.

The decision to increase the price of a 450 g loaf of bread has been revised, stated the bakery Owners’ Association.

Members of a number of Teachers’ and Principals’ unions will be on sick leave today and tomorrow.

The discussions held with Minister of Postal Services & Muslim Religious Affairs Abdul Haleem have failed, the postal trade unions stated.

A consignment of 102 container loads of garbage imported from the United Kingdom now lies in the Colombo port while another 122 containers of garbage have already been cleared out of the port to unknown destinations within the country because of a loophole in import regulations created during the previous government, the country’s Customs officers’ union claimed yesterday.

Common candidate was a term that no longer had any political value in the country thanks to the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe government, JVP Kalutara District MP Dr. Nalinda Jayatissa said, addressing the media at the party headquarters in Pelawatte.

The current postal strike has interrupted the mail exchange procedure in the Colombo area.