Dr. Nalaka Godahewa, former Chairman of Securities and Exchange Commission was arrested by the Financial Crime Investigation Division (FCID), a short while ago on Monday (07) morning, the police Spokesman said.

Former rugby player Wasim Thajudeen’s family will go before the National Police Commission (NPC) seeking action against Police officers who made ‘false reports’ dubbing the rugby player’s death as an accident.

Mallika, a Sri Lankan national, could stick to her travel plan till the torrential rain started in Chennai. Once the downpour started, she was forced to return to the island nation.

The Govt. may lend land to a foreign investor up to a maximum of 5,000 acres and relax the criteria in respect of projects which are “labour intensive with the focus on job creation,” Finance Minister, Ravi Karunanayake has said.

The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has identified National rugby star Wassim Thajudeen’s killers.

President Maithripala Sirisena requested the politicians not to spread narrow racist ideas among the Sinhala Buddhist community to achieve their narrow political gains.

A top securities regulator was arrested on Friday in Sri Lanka on suspicion of financial misappropriation, a police spokesman said.

Former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga yesterday said she was “approached” by an MP to defend the Avant Garde Company.

President Maithripala Sirisena said in Parliament yesterday that British Premier David Cameron had vowed to intervene and take steps to lift the EU ban on Lankan fish exports and restore GSP+ (plus) export status to Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka has not made a formal request for International Monetary Fund help but the fund’s staff are looking at ways to help the island nation, an IMF spokesman said on Thursday.

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe said concessionary duty free vehicle permits will be given to public sector officers once in 10 years.

A well-known comedian and character actor Sunil Hettiarachchi passed away this morning at the age of 78. He was born in born 1937.

The Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) yesterday announced that it would join over 18 other professional unions to stage a countrywide token strike today (03) to force the government to abandon plans to downgrade the public service.

Sri Lanka’s finance minister said on Wednesday restrictions on foreigners buying freehold land would also apply to a suspended Chinese-backed real estate project, in a move seen as addressing India’s concerns about China’s growing clout in the region.

YOKOHAMA — Police arrested three Sri Lankan and four Japanese men Wednesday on suspicion of kidnapping a Sri Lankan man living in Kanagawa Prefecture to force his brother to pay the victim’s debt.