Category: Local News

Digital Infrastructure & Information Technology Minister, Ajith P. Perera, said development technology and e-government will soon be a reality in Parliament and government departments.

‘Thripitakabhivandana’ Week has been declared from today(March 16) to March 23rd, to mark the occasion of initiating the process in order to declare the Theravada Thripitaka, the sacred scripture of Buddhists, as a World Heritage.

The prices of powdered milk have been increased according to the new milk food price formula, Minister of Industry and Commerce Rishad Bathiudeen said.

Special Task Force personnel yesterday raided a safe house belonging to underworld gangster Stanley Kennedy in Weligampitiya, Ja-ela and recovered 16 kilos of heroin, one kilo of cocaine and 1.5 kilos of ice from the safe house. The total value of the narcotics is over Rs 250 million.

Three people were killed while three others wounded after a three-wheeler collided with a van on the Colombo-Kurunegala Road at Meddalanda in Polgahawela.

The National Police Commission has suspended the transfer issued to the Officer in Charge of the Colombo Crimes Division, Chief Police Inspector Nevil de Silva.

A significant amount of funds are being allocated to the education sector development from each budget, Education State Minister Vijayakala Maheshwaran said.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe in Parliament yesterday said that those who question him about the bond scam should read the report of the Presidential Commission which probed the issue as it had not faulted him for anything.

Two people were killed while another was injured following a shooting incident in Moratuwa this morning at around 10:30 a.m.

Sri Lanka should be watchful of the UNHRC resolution that would be presented on March 21, 2019, as it is connected to the adverse resolutions which were adopted in the past, MP Mahinda Samarasinghe told Parliament today.

Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) heavyweight Basil Rajapaksa, yesterday (13), announced the launch of a large-scale grassroots level political project later this week in preparation for the forthcoming national elections––presidential polls in Dec. 2019 and next year’s parliamentary election.

President Maithripala Sirisena left for Kenya this morning to participate in the United Nations Environment Assembly to be held in Nairobi, Kenya.

Over 240,000 teachers from 6,000 schools are to go on a sick leave campaign starting today over the government’s failure to address their salary anomalies which has been unchanged since 1997, unionists said.

JVP Leader and Parliamentarian Anura Kumara Dissanayake yesterday (12), stressed that the Budget 2019 was a deadly trap for villagers as it would increase their indebtedness even more.

Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa told Parliament, yesterday, that it was wrong for the government to try to shift all the blame to him for the country’s economic ills.

Police Special Task Force (STF) personnel have arrested the criminal known as “Jee-Bumba” who is an accomplice of notorious underworld figure “Kanjipani Imran”.