Category: Local News

Minister Kabir Hashim says the present government will continue to fight the scourge of terrorism and states it will not forfeit the duties to the country.

A six–member committee has been appointed to probe allegations against a controversial doctor attached to the Kurunegala Teaching Hospital.

Seven persons were arrested under suspicion during a joint mission carried out by the Police and Armed forces in Dummalasooriya.

The Provincial Education Department has cancelled the transfers of Muslim teachers to Tamil schools in the Eastern Province given by Governor M.L.A.M. Hizbullah.

Fifty two Sinhala Buddhist mothers have lodged complaints with the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and the Kurunegala Teaching Hospital charging that Dr. Shafi Shiha Abdeen had performed non-consensual sterilisation.

Veteran actor Gamini Hettiarachchi has passed away, earlier today (27) at age 68.

The JVP and the TELO have decided to support the no-confidence motion against Minister Rishad Bathiudeen.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has vowed to take stringent security measures to prevent Islamic State (IS) terrorism from raising its head again adding that the Security Forces and Police have apprehended those involved in the Easter Sunday attacks that killed 258 people.

UNP parliamentarian S. M. Marikkar says that the President has the responsibility to carry out a formal investigation against Minister Rishad Bathiudeen.

The prices of 64 drugs had been revised due to the appreciation of the value of the dollar (depreciation of the rupee), Health, Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine Minister Dr. Rajitha Senaratne had stated.

The proposed Status Of Forces Agreement (SOFA) to be signed between Sri Lanka and the United States relating to several matters including military training and co-operation is not inimical to the sovereignty of Sri Lanka in any way, US Ambassador Alaina Teplitz said.

The two-week grace period granted for motorists to comply with the traffic lane law will commence today.

The Kerala coast has been put on high alert following intelligence reports that boats carrying 15 ISIS terrorists had set off from Sri Lanka to the Lakshadweep islands, police said Saturday, the NDTV reported.

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena will attend Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s swearing-in ceremony scheduled to be held in New Delhi on 30 May, according to several media reports.

Sri Lanka’s military launched a major hunt on Saturday (May 25) for remnants of an Islamist group which carried out the Easter suicide bombings that killed 258 people, officials said.

The doctor attached to the Kurunegala Hospital, who was arrested over assets earned through suspicious means, has been handed over to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID).