Category: LOCAL

Electoral reforms by end of year: PM

Electoral reforms by end of year: PM

Sep 30, 2015

The new electoral system would be enacted end of this year with the support of all political parties, Prime Minister ... Read More

Video: Election Committee responsible for payments: Susil Premajeyantha

Video: Election Committee responsible for payments: Susil Premajeyantha

Sep 30, 2015

The responsibility of the outstanding bills to the ITN should be taken by the committee that represented the Media and ... Read More

18,000 affected due to adverse weather

18,000 affected due to adverse weather

Sep 30, 2015

At least 18,917 persons have been affected by the severe weather condition prevailing in the Southern Province for several days, ... Read More

Protest against violence of children

Protest against violence of children

Sep 30, 2015

The Sri Lanka Housewives Association organised a protest today in Slave Island against the abuse and violence against children. Read More

Narendra Modi to visit Sri Lanka to sign the Indo-Lanka Economic and Technology Agreement

Narendra Modi to visit Sri Lanka to sign the Indo-Lanka Economic and Technology Agreement

Sep 30, 2015

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has told the Parliament that he had invited his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi to visit Sri ... Read More

Applications have been called for CRISP fellowship programme

Applications have been called for CRISP fellowship programme

Sep 30, 2015

he British High Commission in Colombo has announced that the applications are now open for this year’s CRISP fellowship program. ... Read More

Landslide warnings for six districts

Landslide warnings for six districts

Sep 30, 2015

The National Building Research Organization (NBRO) has issued warnings for six districts. It says if the rains continue during the ... Read More

Wigneswaran remains belligerent with ITAK leadership

Wigneswaran remains belligerent with ITAK leadership

Sep 30, 2015

Chief Minister of the Northern Province C.V. Wigneswaran has publicly lashed out at the concentration of power in the Ilankai ... Read More

Joint Statement by Tamil Civil Society Organizations and Political parties against UNHRC resolution

Joint Statement by Tamil Civil Society Organizations and Political parties against UNHRC resolution

Sep 30, 2015

JOINT STATEMENT OF TAMIL POLITICAL PARTIES, CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS & TRADE UNIONS ON THE DRAFT RESOLUTION ON SRI LANKA We ... Read More

Details of Siddique’s drug dealings revealed to Court

Details of Siddique’s drug dealings revealed to Court

Sep 30, 2015

The Criminal Investigation Department informed Chief Magistrate of Colombo, Gihan Pilapitiya that Mohammed Siddique, allegedly a large-scale international drug dealer ... Read More

Sri Lankan Airlines has won the prestigious “Excellence in Human Resource – South Asia” award

Sri Lankan Airlines has won the prestigious “Excellence in Human Resource – South Asia” award

Sep 30, 2015

The National Carrier, SriLankan AirlinSri Lankan Airlines has won the prestigious “Excellence in Human Resource – South Asia” award The ... Read More

UNHRC resolution is reported to have been modified to imply placating the Sinhala community

UNHRC resolution is reported to have been modified to imply placating the Sinhala community

Sep 30, 2015

Reports from Geneva said that the U.S.-backed resolution at the United Nations that seeks justice for victims of Sri Lanka’s ... Read More

Video: DIG U.K. Dissanayake further remanded

Video: DIG U.K. Dissanayake further remanded

Sep 30, 2015

Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Vavuniya U.K. Dissanayake and Chief Inspector Sujeewa Priyadarshana, who were arrested on charges of alleged ... Read More

Seya Sadewmi’s murder: DNA samples do not match (Update)

Seya Sadewmi’s murder: DNA samples do not match (Update)

Sep 30, 2015

The CID today informed the court that the Genetech Company had informed that the DNA samples of the 17 year-old ... Read More

PM Ranil, CBK, MR and Sambandan with election Commissioner at the Department’s 60th Anniversary

PM Ranil, CBK, MR and Sambandan with election Commissioner at the Department’s 60th Anniversary

Sep 30, 2015

The Election Department marks its 60th anniversary today. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe is the chief guest of the ceremony organized ... Read More