The Power and Energy Ministry yesterday said that there is a possibility of a one-hour power cut in some parts of the country due to the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) suspending fuel supply to the thermal power plants while Trade Unions claiming that power outages may extend to two to three hours from today.

The Criminal Investigation Department is set to launch probes into the revelations made by Venerable Medagoda Abayatissa Thero over 20 persons being allegedly killed under the Sharia law, police said.

Megapolis and Western Province Development Minister Patali Champika Ranwaka has recently said that an impartial inquiry should be launched to ascertain how the funds received for the construction of the University in the East had been utilised.

Former Chairman of Rakna Lanka Security Company, Victor Samaraweera, has been arrested after surrendering to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID).

A program was held yesterday (July 07) to provide equipment for the differently abled in the Colombo North Division under the auspices of Minister Ravi Karunanayake.

Leader of the Opposition Mahinda Rajapaksa states that, currently, the people in the country are living with a fear of terrorism.

A Laos national who attempted to smuggle over 2.6kg of the methamphetamine also known as Ice was arrested at the BIA today.

The National Movement for Consumer Rights Protection (NMCRP) yesterday said that the fuel stations across the country were selling substandard 92 octane petrol.

Police lined the streets of the Sri Lankan highland town of Kandy on Sunday and the army was on standby as hardline Buddhist monks gathered for their first big assembly since Easter attacks by Islamist militants on churches and luxury hotels.

Two T-56 assault rifles have reportedly gone missing from the Panadura North Police Station.

President Maithripala Sirisena, during a district progress review meeting held in Bibile yesterday said, he will not allow the Government to sign any agreement harmful to the country or that which would defy its sovereignty and independence.

Sri Lanka is moving to curtail Saudi Arabian influence, after some politicians and Buddhist monks blamed the spread of the kingdom’s ultra-conservative Wahhabi school of Islam for planting the seeds of militancy that culminated in deadly bomb attacks this year.

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe says a country cannot be developed by levelling allegations at one another.

The Attorney General has instructed the Acting Inspector General of Police to arrest the eight suspects linked to the Avant-Garde case.