Category: LOCAL

ISIS posts a new shocking video: Spies drowned and blown up by RPGS

ISIS posts a new shocking video: Spies drowned and blown up by RPGS

Jun 24, 2015

Another video has emerged today from ISIS that is so horrifying that most websites have refrained from posting certain photos ... Read More

Malala presses World Bank, UN to set goals on education

Malala presses World Bank, UN to set goals on education

Jun 23, 2015

  Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai urged the World Bank and United Nations on Monday to raise the focus ... Read More

​Butter may have been the cause: says Cinnamon Grand

​Butter may have been the cause: says Cinnamon Grand

Jun 23, 2015

  An internal investigation into the food samples of the hotel served at the June 12 event at the Oak ... Read More

Premalal Jayasekara re-remanded

Premalal Jayasekara re-remanded

Jun 23, 2015

  Former Deputy Minister Premalal Jayasekara, Provincial Councilor Nilantha Jayakody and Kahawatta Pradeshiya Sabha chairman Vajira Darshana, who were arrested ... Read More

Injury forces Haris Sohail to return to Pakistan

Injury forces Haris Sohail to return to Pakistan

Jun 23, 2015

  Pakistan’s left-arm all-rounder Haris Sohail has suffered an injury during practice which has forced him to return to Pakistan, ... Read More

Watch: Dogs go on sale for Yulin festival despite worldwide outrage

Watch: Dogs go on sale for Yulin festival despite worldwide outrage

Jun 23, 2015

  Despite international criticism and widespread outrage on social networking sites, the annual Yulin Dog Meat Festival is currently underway ... Read More

Twelve Police OICs transferred

Twelve Police OICs transferred

Jun 23, 2015

  Twelve Police Officer-in-charges (OICs) including the chief inspector (CI) of Fraud Investigation Bureau (FIB) had been transferred with immediate ... Read More

Pavement hawkers are back?

Pavement hawkers are back?

Jun 23, 2015

                                Colombo Mayor A.J.M. Muzammil ... Read More

200 workers hospitalized due to food poisoning

200 workers hospitalized due to food poisoning

Jun 23, 2015

  Some 200 female workers of an apparel factory in Awissawela have been hospitalized due to food poisoning, the Police ... Read More

ICC announces Americas Cricket Combine

ICC announces Americas Cricket Combine

Jun 23, 2015

  The International Cricket Council (ICC) announced that a cricket Combine will take place in Indianapolis, USA, in September to ... Read More

Health Ministry to test all noodles in market

Health Ministry to test all noodles in market

Jun 23, 2015

  The Ministry of Health is to conduct chemical tests on all brands of noodles and the samples will be ... Read More

Lefties to hold seminar about 20A

Lefties to hold seminar about 20A

Jun 23, 2015

The Leftist Parties have organized a seminar titled “20th Amendment; image and the unseen truth”. The seminar will be held ... Read More

ICG conducts search near Lanka for missing fishermen

ICG conducts search near Lanka for missing fishermen

Jun 23, 2015

  The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) has launched a massive search around Tamil Nadu and near Sri Lanka for six ... Read More

Russia cuts World Cup spending amid economic crisis

Russia cuts World Cup spending amid economic crisis

Jun 23, 2015

  The Russian government ordered 30 billion roubles ($560 million) in cuts in spending on the 2018 World Cup on ... Read More

UNHRC not funding diaspora festival: GOSL

UNHRC not funding diaspora festival: GOSL

Jun 23, 2015

  The Minister of Foreign Affairs Mangala Samaraweera strongly rejected allegations that a diaspora festival suggested by him has received ... Read More