Category: Local News

Two more of the individuals, who were arrested along with notorious drug kingpin Makandure Madush in Dubai, were deported last night, police said.

The first ever Sri Lankan satellite, RAAVANA-1, was successfully launched into space at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Virginia today (18).

The United Kingdom has agreed to introduce a system to Sri Lanka to generate electricity using discarded materials as a solution for the possible power crisis that could take place in the future.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) as a leading multilateral development partner of Sri Lanka, plans to commit an average of $800 million annually in sovereign loans to the island nation during 2018 – 2022 to boost economic growth.

A Special Report, by the Auditor General, reveals that the Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) had paid a staggering sum of Rs 5.5 billion to two private companies it had contracted for four years to collect and dispose of waste at Meethotamulla and to level the garbage dump there.

The Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) will lose nearly Rs. 100 billion this year, warns a top officials.

UK visitors to Sri Lanka can get a free visa from 1 May 2019.

10 people have been killed in a vehicle collision reported along the Badulla, Mahiyanganaya road, opposite the Mahiyanganaya National School early this morning.

US-based Centre for Justice and Accountability has confirmed that it has filed a civil lawsuit against former Secretary of Defence Gotabaya Rajapaksa in a US court.

Four Tamil asylum-seekers have been released from police custody amid a terrorism investigation, writes Phil Miller.

Sri Lankan politicians praised China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) for its benefits to their country.

Planting  a plant at the dawn of the oncoming Sinhala  and Tamil New Year, people should join together to accomplish the duties for environmental conservation, President invites all Sri Lankans.

The Sri Lanka Transport Board has implemented special bus services to facilitate the public returning to Colombo from hometowns following the Sinhala and Tamil New year.

The dawn of the Sinhala and Tamil New Year will be celebrated in Sri Lanka today (April 14).

Some bureaucrats are calling it the “air wars” – the tussle between the President’s Office and the Prime Minister’s Office – over Rupavahini, the national television broadcaster.

Since the Sun and the Moon are the prime factors in the sustenance of life on Earth, the people worshipped the Sun and the Moon with utmost devotion since ancient times. Considering nature as divine was a habitual practice of kings and the general public, states President Maithripala Sirisena in a Sinhala and Tamil New Year message.