Sachin Tendulkar awarded Asian Awards Fellowship

Sachin Tendulkar awarded Asian Awards Fellowship

May 6, 2017

India batting great and cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar added yet another award to his collection. The Indian cricketer was awarded The Fellowship ... Read More

Tanzania School Bus Crash Kills Dozens

Tanzania School Bus Crash Kills Dozens

May 6, 2017

More than 30 people - almost all of them schoolchildren - have been killed in a bus crash in northern ... Read More

West Indies Coach Disappointed by ‘Pakistani Pitch’

West Indies Coach Disappointed by ‘Pakistani Pitch’

May 6, 2017

West Indies coach Stuart Law is deeply disappointed with the Bridgetown pitch, on which his team registered a stirring 106-run ... Read More

Shooting Near the Dikkumbura Junction in Imaduwa

Shooting Near the Dikkumbura Junction in Imaduwa

May 6, 2017

A person a 42-year-old resident of Dikkumbura was shot and killed this morning while accompanying his child to a private ... Read More

6,000 Special Security Officers For Indian PM Modi’s SL Visit

6,000 Special Security Officers For Indian PM Modi’s SL Visit

May 6, 2017

IGP Pujith Jayasundara said, that the  Police has taken special security measures for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to ... Read More

JO to Lodge A complaint With the Inter-Parliamentary Union

JO to Lodge A complaint With the Inter-Parliamentary Union

May 6, 2017

The Joint Opposition (JO) is planning to lodge a complaint with the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) in connection with  the downsizing ... Read More

79 Cases Filed During Traffic Operation

79 Cases Filed During Traffic Operation

May 6, 2017

The special traffic operation implemented in Colombo will be introduced to other parts of the island in future, Police Headquarters ... Read More

Case Against Basil Rajapaksa Postponed

Case Against Basil Rajapaksa Postponed

May 6, 2017

The case against former Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa in connection with misappropriating Rs.2,991 million and another Rs.36.5 million of funds ... Read More

187 Security Personnel For  Mahinda

187 Security Personnel For Mahinda

May 6, 2017

Minister of Law and Order, Sagala Ratnayake, informed Parliament yesterday that former President Mahinda Rajapaksa has been given a security ... Read More

AG Requests Chief Justice to Appoint High Court at Bar to Hear Vidya Murder Case

AG Requests Chief Justice to Appoint High Court at Bar to Hear Vidya Murder Case

May 6, 2017

Vidya Sivaloganathan of Pungudutivu,an 18-year-old girl was abducted,raped and murdered while returning from Pungudathivu Vidyalaya in 2015. Nine suspects were ... Read More

Rs.329 M to Purchase Vehicles For Ministers

Rs.329 M to Purchase Vehicles For Ministers

May 6, 2017

The government submitted a supplementary estimate yesterday (5)  seeking the approval of the House for a sum of Rs 329 ... Read More

GMOA’s  Strike Concluded

GMOA’s Strike Concluded

May 6, 2017

The Government Medical Officers’ Association’s island-wide strike launched in protest against  the South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine will ... Read More

Handunnetti  Summoned to Appear Before  Special Presidential Commission

Handunnetti Summoned to Appear Before Special Presidential Commission

May 6, 2017

Chairman of the Committee on Public Enterprises cum JVP MP Sunil Handunnetti has been summoned to appear before the Special ... Read More

Weather Forecast For 6th May 2017

Weather Forecast For 6th May 2017

May 6, 2017

Showers or thundershowers will occur at several places in the most provinces of the island after 2.00p.m. Showers can be ... Read More