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A 35 year old businessman shot dead in Sapugaskanda

A 35 year old businessman shot dead in Sapugaskanda

Dec 12, 2018

(FASTNEWS|COLOMBO) - A 35 year old businessman shot dead by a gunman on a motorbike at Galwala junction in Sapugaskanda ... Read More

ACMC Leader Rishad Bathiudeen left for Mecca

ACMC Leader Rishad Bathiudeen left for Mecca

Dec 12, 2018

(FASTNEWS|COLOMBO) - The Leader of the All Ceylon Makkal Congress (ACMC), Parliamentarian Rishad Bathiudeen has left for Mecca, Saudi Arabia ... Read More

Speaker informes President on Ranil’s confidence motion

Speaker informes President on Ranil’s confidence motion

Dec 12, 2018

(FASTNEWS|COLOMBO) - Speaker Karu Jayasuriya has informed President Maithripala Sirisena that the motion expressing confidence in the Leader of the ... Read More

Two suspects arrested for smuggling heroin remanded

Two suspects arrested for smuggling heroin remanded

Dec 12, 2018

(FASTNEWS|COLOMBO) - Two suspects who were arrested for smuggling 231 kg cache of heroin seized from Beruwala, remanded until December ... Read More

Parliament adjourned until Dec.18

Parliament adjourned until Dec.18

Dec 12, 2018

(FASTNEWS|COLOMBO) - Speaker Karu Jayasuriya today adjourned parliament session till 1.00 pm on December 18. The today’s session commenced without the ... Read More

Facebook building evacuated after reported bomb threat

Facebook building evacuated after reported bomb threat

Dec 12, 2018

(FASTNEWS|COLOMBO) - A building on Facebook’s Menlo Park campus, which houses both Instagram and Facebook employees, has been evacuated Tuesday ... Read More

Theresa May to face vote of no confidence

Theresa May to face vote of no confidence

Dec 12, 2018

(FASTNEWS|COLOMBO) - UK Prime Minister Theresa May will face a vote of no confidence in her leadership later on Wednesday. Conservative ... Read More

Appeal against Interim Order on Rajapaksa and his Cabinet to hear on Dec. 14

Appeal against Interim Order on Rajapaksa and his Cabinet to hear on Dec. 14

Dec 12, 2018

(FASTNEWS|COLOMBO) - The appeal, filed against the Court of Appeal's Interim Injunction order on former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and ... Read More

Parliamentary session commenced

Parliamentary session commenced

Dec 12, 2018

(FASTNEWS|COLOMBO) - Parliamentary session commenced a short while ago and Parliamentarian Sajith Premadasa proposing a vote of confidence on UNP Leader Ranil ... Read More

Drug smuggler Sunil Shantha handed over to CID

Drug smuggler Sunil Shantha handed over to CID

Dec 12, 2018

(FASTNEWS|COLOMBO) - Drug smuggler Sunil Shantha who escaped from Welikada prison and arrested by Organised Crimes Division today (12) to ... Read More

Canadian court grants bail to Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou

Canadian court grants bail to Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou

Dec 12, 2018

(FASTNEWS|COLOMBO) - A top executive of Chinese telecoms giant Huawei Technologies Co Ltd wanted by the United States to answer ... Read More

Party Leaders meeting commenced

Party Leaders meeting commenced

Dec 12, 2018

(FASTNEWS|COLOMBO) - Party Leaders meeting commenced in parliamnet a short while ago without the participation of the United People's Freedom ... Read More

Aquaman actor Amber Heard: Audiences want to see women occupying strong roles

Aquaman actor Amber Heard: Audiences want to see women occupying strong roles

Dec 12, 2018

(FASTNEWS|COLOMBO) - Amber Heard stars as the female lead Mera opposite Jason Momoa’s Arthur Curry in James Wan’s superhero film, ... Read More

Veteran Musician and Singer Upali Kannangara passed away

Veteran Musician and Singer Upali Kannangara passed away

Dec 12, 2018

(FASTNEWS|COLOMBO) - Veteran musician and singer Upali Kannangara aged 67 has passed away at a private hospital a short while ... Read More

Three dead in France Xmas market shooting

Three dead in France Xmas market shooting

Dec 12, 2018

(FASTNEWS|COLOMBO) - France has upgraded its security threat level as police hunted a gunman who shot three people dead and ... Read More