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Social Services Minister Felix Perera told Parliament yesterday that the government spent around Rs. 2,800 million annually on a monthly allowance of Rs. 1,000 for each low income senior citizen aged 70 or above. […]

Within days after catching a passenger who had stuffed two gold biscuits in his anus, the Customs officials at Madurai airport caught another passenger for attempting to smuggle four gold biscuits by tying them with a handkerchief under his left armpit. […]

Coca-Cola Beverages Sri Lanka Ltd., said yesterday, there is no legal impediment for the Company to continue with its production, distribution and sales. […]

– by Dharshan Weerasekera – Since the end of the civil war in Sri Lanka in May 2009, there have been four attempts by the UN, or associated with the UN, to pursue “accountability” with respect to alleged war crimes committed during the last phases of the war.  Two of those attempts have been on […]

UNP former Deputy Leader and Hambantota District MP, Sajith Premadasa, vehemently condemned the attempt to suppress Sirasa TV. He said that Sirasa TV provided reliable information to the public and as a media organization, it’s a strength to the country. […]

Another two suspects arrested in connection with the murder of a police constable and his wife in Kamburupitiya drowned after trying to flee police, Police spokesman said. The suspects had allegedly drowned in a lake in Benagama, Hakmana after trying to flee while they were taking a police team to show an arms cache. […]

Archaeologists digging at Buddha’s birthplace have uncovered remains of the earliest ever “Buddhist shrine”. They unearthed a 6th Century BC timber structure buried within the Maya Devi Temple at Lumbini in Nepal. […]

With the recently introduced E-ticket reservation system by Sri Lanka Railways (SLR), all seats in the upcountry railway line (from Colombo Fort to Badulla) have been reserved till the end of December 2013. […]

China’s support for the Hambantota Port is commercial in nature and it should not be misconstrued as fitting the ‘String of Pearls’ paradigm, Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa stressed yesterday. […]

The 23 police officers, who raided the Casino at the Salaka building, were transferred on the basis that they were not carrying out their duties in a satisfactory manner and not on the basis of any influence, Prime Minister D. M. Jayaratne informed Parliament today. […]

The long-suspected international gold smuggling racket centred on the Colombo-Kochi-Chennai axis was dramatically confirmed on Sunday, when the air intelligence unit of Cochin International Airport apprehended two groups of Sri Lankan nationals who arrived in the city with around 11 kg of gold ornaments worth more than Rs 3 crore. […]

The Kebetigollawa Magistrate issued an order suspending the production and sale of the fizzy drink, Coca Cola in Sri Lanka, for a period of three-months, to Pure Beverages (Pvt) Ltd., Biyagama, after the company was found guilty of distributing for sale, a bottle of Coca Cola, which does not mention the date of production or […]

Resettlement Deputy Minister Vinayagamoorthy Muralidharan said the people of the North should come forward to develop their rural areas by expressing their solidarity to the government. […]

Four inmates have escaped from the Mahara Prison, officials said today. The Department of Prisons said that four prisoners serving time in connection with robberies had escaped from the prison last evening. […]

Half of the money in circulation in Sri Lanka is black money, a Senior Government Minister charged yesterday. “It is a known and confirmed fact that half the money available and in circulation in the country is black and informal money,” Communist Party General Secretary and Senior Minister of Human Resources, Don Edwin Weerasinghe (D.E.W.) […]