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Party Leaders to meet today

Party Leaders to meet today

Dec 18, 2018

(FASTNEWS|COLOMBO) - Party Leaders are scheduled to meet at the Parliament at 12 noon today (18). Speaker Karu Jayasuriya will ... Read More

Mainly fair and cold weather will prevail over the island – Met. Department

Mainly fair and cold weather will prevail over the island – Met. Department

Dec 18, 2018

(FASTNEWS|COLOMBO) - Mainly fair and cold weather will prevail over the island and slight change in weather can be expected ... Read More

New political alliance to be formed

New political alliance to be formed

Dec 17, 2018

(FASTNEWS|COLOMBO) - Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe Monday (17) announced that a new alliance named National Democratic Front (NDF), will be ... Read More

I will not contest the SLC election – Thilanga Sumathipala

I will not contest the SLC election – Thilanga Sumathipala

Dec 17, 2018

(FASTNEWS|COLOMBO) - Former SLC President Thilanga Sumathipala says he will not contest the Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) elections. Read More

Israeli PM’s son gets temporary ban on Facebook for anti-Muslim posts

Israeli PM’s son gets temporary ban on Facebook for anti-Muslim posts

Dec 17, 2018

(FASTNEWS|COLOMBO) - Facebook blocked Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s son Yair for 24 hours after he wrote a post criticizing ... Read More

Galle Face entry road closed due to UNP public demonstration

Galle Face entry road closed due to UNP public demonstration

Dec 17, 2018

(FASTNEWS|COLOMBO) - Galle Face entry road closed from Lotus roundabout and heavy traffic around Galle Face due to a United National Party ... Read More

Parliament staff fears gas leak

Parliament staff fears gas leak

Dec 17, 2018

(FASTNEWS|COLOMBO) - It is reported that the Security Personnel had acted to remove the Parliamentary staff from the Complex due ... Read More

Three persons arrested over firearms racket in Gampaha

Three persons arrested over firearms racket in Gampaha

Dec 17, 2018

(FASTNEWS|COLOMBO) - Three individuals, who had been engaged in the racketeering of firearms, have been arrested in Mathammana area in ... Read More

CEA to use drone technology to environmental issues

CEA to use drone technology to environmental issues

Dec 17, 2018

(FASTNEWS|COLOMBO) - The Central Environmental Authority (CEA) of Sri Lanka has taken measures to use drone technology for field tests ... Read More

North Korea condemns latest US sanctions

North Korea condemns latest US sanctions

Dec 17, 2018

(FASTNEWS|COLOMBO) - North Korea has denounced the latest US sanctions, saying they could "block the path to denuclearisation on the ... Read More

Maldives seize US$6.5 million from former president

Maldives seize US$6.5 million from former president

Dec 17, 2018

(FASTNEWS|COLOMBO) - Former Maldives president Abdulla Yameen is under investigation for corruption, police said Sunday (16), after a court ordered ... Read More

Naughty parrot befriends owner’s Alexa and orders goodies from Amazon

Naughty parrot befriends owner’s Alexa and orders goodies from Amazon

Dec 17, 2018

(FASTNEWS|COLOMBO) - Not too long ago, a mischievous parrot had left netizens ROFL-ing after it refused to be rescued by ... Read More

Saudi Arabia rejects US Senate position on Jamal Khashoggi

Saudi Arabia rejects US Senate position on Jamal Khashoggi

Dec 17, 2018

(FASTNEWS|COLOMBO) - Saudi Arabia early on Monday rejected “the position expressed recently by the United States Senate”, saying that the ... Read More

Scores injured in huge explosion in Japan

Scores injured in huge explosion in Japan

Dec 16, 2018

(FASTNEWS|COLOMBO) - A huge explosion and fire has hit a restaurant in the northern Japanese city of Sapporo. Japanese police ... Read More

Fishermen are advised not to venture into the deep and shallow sea areas

Fishermen are advised not to venture into the deep and shallow sea areas

Dec 16, 2018

(FASTNEWS|COLOMBO) - The deep depression over South-West Bay of Bengal has intensified in to the Cyclonic storm”PHETHAI” and located near ... Read More