Category: Local News

Suspected members of an extremist group shot and seriously wounded an official working for a cabinet minister in Mawanella yesterday, Police said.

Borella traffic OIC Ananda Sagara Sarachchandra who was injured in the hit and run accident on 24 February at Bambalapitiya, succumbed to his injuries while receiving treatment at the National Hospital.

As the 40th session of the UN Human Rights Council comes to an end on March 22, the UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture will visit Sri Lanka in early April, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said yesterday.

There is no room for robbers and theft in accordance with the Bandaranaike Policies exercised in the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), former President and one of SLFP Advisors Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga said.

A package containing 2002 Methamphetamine, also known as ‘ICE’ pills, valued at 9 million rupees was identified and seized yesterday at the Colombo Central Mail Exchange.

Sri Lanka’s military is teaming with police to invigorate an anti-narcotics drive by its president who has vowed to end a 43-year moratorium on capital punishment and execute condemned drug traffickers, top military officials said Friday.

The Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation has today launched a train compartment service designated for women.

There is no one in this government who accepts what I say, President Maithripala Sirisena said.

A Police Sergeant attached to the Criminal Investigations Department has been arrested by Bribery Commission officers on charges of accepting a bribe of Rs. 80,000 from a businessman at Gonawala in Kelaniya.

Sri Lanka sold $2.4 billion in five-year and 10-year U.S. dollar-denominated bonds on Friday, two people involved in the deal said, successfully tapping the international markets at a time the country is facing strains on its finances.

The TNA’s position was that a new resolution must be adopted at the UNHRC and Sri Lanka must co-sponsor it yet again, TNA MP M A Sumanthiran said.

A Sri Lankan advert for hangmen has attracted more than 100 applicants, including an American, a prison service spokesman said on Wednesday, as the country pushes ahead with a plan to reintroduce the death penalty for drug offences.

The Supreme Court has issued an order preventing the Criminal Investigation Department from arresting the Retired Admiral Wasantha Karannagoda over the abduction of 11 youths.

Britain’s Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled in favour of a Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seeker’s claim that the Home Office was wrong to reject his contention that he was tortured back in Sri Lanka, and asked the Upper Tribunal to look at the case afresh, in what is considered a landmark judgment

JVP politburo member K.D. Lal Kantha, who was arrested over an accident in Anuradhapura, has been granted bail by the Anuradhapura Magistrate’s Court.

The Special High Court today said that it had no jurisdiction to hear the case of Nirad Roshan alias ‘Ali Roshan’ who possessed four elephants without a valid license and thus ordered to release Ali Roshan and six others.