Category: Local News

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.

Sri Lanka should develop the ability to manufacture complex goods within the country and Budget 2019 has provided the incentives to promote new inventions, Non Cabinet Minister of Economic Reforms and Public Distribution Dr. Harsha de Silva said.

Inspector General of Police (IGP) has introduced three telephone numbers for the public to provide information on illicit liquor.

Sri Lankan government under Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has decided to co-sponsor a roll-over of resolution at the ongoing 40th session of the UN Human Rights Council ignoring the stand taken by President Maithripala Sirisena.

The ‘Budget 2019’ was different in structure to those presented by the UNP in the past and it had looked into areas which were often neglected, JVP MP Sunil Handunnetti said.

Samples of imported milk powder have already been sent for tests overseas, Industry and Commerce Deputy Minister Buddhika Pathirana said.

The Government of Sri Lanka through the budget for 2019 has introduced a charge on all foreign payments.

JVP Parliamentarian Vijitha Herath says the 2019 Budget proposal presented by the government yesterday only focuses on further loans.