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Traffic congestion on High Level Road in Nugegoda

Traffic congestion on High Level Road in Nugegoda

Jan 14, 2019

(FASTNEWS|COLOMBO) - Traffic congestion on High Level Road in Nugegoda towards Maharagama due to a parents' protest in front of ... Read More

Get Ready for Pc Polls – President

Get Ready for Pc Polls – President

Jan 14, 2019

(FASTNEWS|COLOMBO) - President Maithripala Sirisena has instructed the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) electoral organisers to prepare for a Provincial ... Read More

IGP to appear before the Analyst’s Department today

IGP to appear before the Analyst’s Department today

Jan 14, 2019

(FASTNEWS|COLOMBO) - IGP Pujith Jayasundara has been summoned to the Government Analyst’s department in connection to allegations made by Namal ... Read More

Thai Pongal: Festival of harvests, with offerings to the Sun God

Thai Pongal: Festival of harvests, with offerings to the Sun God

Jan 14, 2019

(FASTNEWS|COLOMBO) - Hindus in Sri Lanka celebrate ‘Thai Pongal Day’ - culturally and traditionally the festival of harvests, on January ... Read More

Mushfiqur trumps Thisara Perera in thrilling Vikings win

Mushfiqur trumps Thisara Perera in thrilling Vikings win

Jan 14, 2019

(FASTNEWS|COLOMBO) - Chittagong Vikings 186 for 6 (Mushfiqur 75, Shahzad 46, Saifuddin 3-45) beat Comilla Victorians 184 for 5 (Thisara ... Read More

Heavy falls above 100 mm can be expected at some places today

Heavy falls above 100 mm can be expected at some places today

Jan 14, 2019

(FASTNEWS|COLOMBO) - Showers or thundershowers will occur at times in Eastern, North-Central, Central and Uva provinces. Several spells of light ... Read More

Computer-based driving tests countrywide by year-end

Computer-based driving tests countrywide by year-end

Jan 13, 2019

(FASTNEWS|COLOMBO) - The computer-based test for obtaining driving licences would be introduced to the other 25 districts in the country ... Read More

Country doesn’t need a new Constitution

Country doesn’t need a new Constitution

Jan 13, 2019

(FASTNEWS|COLOMBO) - The country does not need a new Constitution, however, a Constitutional amendment for the sake of a new ... Read More

President says his desire is to see a new generation of youth fortified in technical knowhow and ethical values

President says his desire is to see a new generation of youth fortified in technical knowhow and ethical values

Jan 13, 2019

(FASTNEWS|COLOMBO) - President Maithripala Sirisena says that his desire is to see the children of this country make use of ... Read More

Showers or thundershowers will occur at several places elsewhere after 2.00 p.m.

Showers or thundershowers will occur at several places elsewhere after 2.00 p.m.

Jan 13, 2019

(FASTNEWS|COLOMBO) - Showers or thundershowers will occur at times in Eastern and Uva provinces. Several spells of showers will occur in ... Read More

Over 1,100 dengue cases this year

Over 1,100 dengue cases this year

Jan 12, 2019

(FASTNEWS|COLOMBO) - A total of 1,111 dengue cases had been reported from all parts of the country within this year ... Read More

Sri Lankan MSEs to get US $ 10 Mn from SAARC

Sri Lankan MSEs to get US $ 10 Mn from SAARC

Jan 12, 2019

(FASTNEWS|COLOMBO) - SAARC Development Fund (SDF) is launching its Micro, Small and Medium Enterprise (MSME) funding scheme in Sri Lanka, ... Read More

Showers or thundershowers will occur elsewhere after 2.00p.m.

Showers or thundershowers will occur elsewhere after 2.00p.m.

Jan 12, 2019

(FASTNEWS|COLOMBO) - Showers or thundershowers will occur at times in Eastern and Uva provinces. Several spells of showers will occur in ... Read More

First Ballistic Rubber Sample in Sri Lanka Inducted

First Ballistic Rubber Sample in Sri Lanka Inducted

Jan 11, 2019

(FASTNEWS|COLOMBO) - The locally manufactured and newly-developed ballistic rubber sample for firing which saw the light, consequent upon a series ... Read More

Norovirus outbreak sickens 277 on ‘Oasis of the Seas’

Norovirus outbreak sickens 277 on ‘Oasis of the Seas’

Jan 11, 2019

(FASTNEWS|COLOMBO) - Royal Caribbean’s Oasis of the Seas is returning to a Florida port a day early and giving passengers ... Read More