Licences of all 9mm firearms suspended
Defence Secretary Hemasiri Fernando today said licences of all 9mm firearms had been suspended and new licences would be issued from January 23. Mr. ...
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ICC grant 14-day amnesty to report on match fixing approaches to Sri Lankans
The International Cricket Council (ICC) will, for the first time ever, start a two-week amnesty period for Sri Lankan cricketers and others involved...
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Two Bangladeshis arrested with heroin worth Rs.3.3bn
Sri Lanka’s largest-ever heroin haul, weighing 278 kg and worth Rs.3,336 million, was detected in Dehiwala today, in a New Year’s Eve raid conduct...
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CH overcome Police by a whisker
In what turned out to be a close game, CH & FC managed to beat Police SC 29-24 in their Dialog Rugby League 2018/19 matchweek seven fixture played...
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Four killed, eight injured in Kudawella Fishery Harbour shooting
At least four people were killed and eight injured when two gunmen opened fire inside the Kudawella Fishery Harbour in Tangalle last morning, police s...
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Saga of how a high office went a-begging!
The origin of this story has been traced to a very high place in the country. According to the story, a well- known political heavyweight had ...
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SC issues notices on Ranjan
The Supreme Court today issued notices on UNP Parliamentarian Ranjan Ramanayake and the Attorney General to appear in court on December 7 over an inci...
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Will appeal in Supreme Court: MR
Former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa said that they do not agree with the interim order which was issued by Court of Appeal today and that they w...
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Police seek help to locate ‘Koombiyo’ Scriptwriter
The Police today released a photograph of 40-year-old Damitha Sagara Chandrasiri, the missing editor and scriptwriter of the ‘Koombiyo’ teledrama ...
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Drive For Justice
‘Yukthiye Yaathrawa’ (Drive for Justice), a vehicle parade, organized by the UNP, calling to restore democracy, was launched by UNP leader Ranil W...
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Govt. attempts to counter curtailment of funds to PM's office
Ahead of another parliamentary vote to curtail expenditure to the Office of Prime Minister, the government is making fresh efforts to muster the simpl...
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122 MPs challenge MR in court
As many as 122 Sri Lankan lawmakers on Friday challenged former President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the court of appeal, asking on whose authority he occup...
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Rajapaksa administration owes SriLankan Rs.122mn: Officer
A total of Rs.122.3 million is owed to SriLankan by the Presidential Secretariat, the Foreign Affairs Ministry and the Commonwealth Games Committee fo...
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President Can't Act like Alice in Wonderland"- Counsel tell SC
Challenging all arguments in favour of the dissolution of Parliament, the Supreme Court (SC) yesterday heard ten petitions arguing that President Mait...
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Never neglect your studies Herath’s advice to youngsters
Veteran Rangana Herath will bring the curtains down on his excellent cricket career next week in Galle with Sri Lanka taking on England in the first m...
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Unions call for Arjuna’s arrest, threaten to suspend fuel distribution One killed, two injured in attack on protesters
A 34-year-old man, who was shot yesterday by a security guard of former Minister of Petroleum Resources Development, Arjuna Ranatunga, had succumbed t...
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Ninety five percent of Regional Plantation Companies reportedly running at a loss
At the head table, chairman PA Sunil Poholiyadde, chairman EFC Roshan Rajadurai, Sec. Gen. PA Lalith Obeysekera, Dir. Gen. EFC Kanishka Weerasinghe, D...
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Truth and Justice Commission to be established early next year
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe says that a Truth and Justice Commission will be established early next year, as a follow up to the Missing Person...
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Angunukolapelessa prison inmates call off protest
The protest launched by the inmates of Angunukolapelessa Prison has been called off, said Ada Derana reporter. The inmates have agreed to come down...
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CID arrests SLC Chief Financial Officer
Sri Lanka Cricket's (SLC) Chief Financial Officer Wimal Nandika Dissanayake was arrested by the CID today in connection with an alleged financial frau...
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Modi’s Office on assassination plot allegation
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Office yesterday said President Maithripala Sirisena had, in a telephone conversation with the Indian leader, ...
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Rajitha refutes media reports on RAW plot
Co-Cabinet spokesperson Minister Rajitha Senaratne refuted media reports that stated that President Maithripala Sirisena had informed Cabinet that the...
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Wiggy wants TNA vote tied to release of LTTE suspects in custody Budget 2019
Northern Province Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswaran said on Friday said that he had requested the TNA leaders to vote against the budget in Parliament i...
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