Category: Local News

The ailing SriLankan Airlines has paid the Bank of Ceylon (BoC) over Rs 4.25 billion and around USD 5.8 million, till 31 January 2018, for the outstanding loans since December 2014, it was revealed at the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) on irregularities at SriLankan Airlines, SriLankan Catering and Mihin Lanka yesterday.

The Special High Court today issued notice on former Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa and six others to appear before the court on September 10 over the alleged misappropriation of public funds for the construction of the D. A. Rajapaksa memorial museum at Weeraketiya.

One passenger has died and at least 27 more passengers were injured when a bus skidded off the road and toppled into a precipice at Alugolla in Badulla this morning.

He was speaking at a public meeting in Pliyandala. MP Wimal Weerawansa added:

The Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) has earned over Rs.110 million during the past year (2017) by carrying out raids on power pirates, the Ministry of Power and Renewable Energy said.

A 31- years-old woman had been shot dead at the Jumma Junction in Maligawatte a short while ago, the Police said.

President Maithripala Sirisena today visited Medamulana in Weeraketiya to pay his last respects to the late Chandra Tudor Rajapaksa, the brother of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa.

China wants to build houses and roads in Sri Lanka’s north, much of which is in a state of disrepair nearly a decade after the end of civil war, Chinese and Sri Lankan officials said, in a bid to expand it influence beyond the island’s south.

Sri Lanka’s Epidemiology Unit on Friday said 41 people had died and over 36,000 patients infected by dengue across Sri Lanka till August this year.

The Report of the Delimitation Committee for the Delimitation of Electorates in Provincial Councils was defeated in Parliament yesterday with 139 votes against.

Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s Chief of Staff Gamini Senarath and four others were granted bail by the Permanent High Court at Bar, over the case of misappropriating funds belonged to the Litro Gas Lanka limited.

A decision was taken by the Cost of Living Committee to increase the price of a 12.5kg gas cylinder by Rs.158 with effect from tomorrow (25).

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena said on Thursday that he will initiate talks with Pakistan’s new Prime Minister Imran Khan over extraditing five Pakistani nationals who were on death row in Sri Lanka.

A bike gang had vandalized three houses in Jaffna, Kopai and Chunnakam yesterday, Police said.

Sri Lankan Ambassador to China Karunasena Kodituwakku on Wednesday strongly pushed back recent media reports criticizing Chinese investments in his country, saying that Sri Lanka was not forced to accept investments and loans from China and wants to continue cooperation with China under the Belt and Road (B&R) initiative.

There is no risk of transporting Singapore wastes or e-wastes to Sri Lanka through the Singapore Free Trade Agreement, as Sri Lanka has signed and ratified The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal