SLC Chief Finance Officer says his e-mail was hacked
US$ 5.5 Million Fraud Sri Lanka Cricket’s Chief Financial Officer has informed investigators looking into one of the biggest financial scandals in ...
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Fuel prices increased from last night: Finance Ministry
The Retail Prices of Fuel have been revised with effect from midnight today based on the Fuel pricing formula, the Finance Ministry said. Accordingly...
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Navy recovers 284.5kg Kerala Cannabis floating in sea
Some 284.5kg of Kerala Cannabis which has a street value of more than Rs. 30 million was recovered by the Navy in the seas off Iranativu island. Navy...
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CDS Wijegunaratne summoned to CID today
Former Navy Commander and Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) Admiral Ravindra Wijegunaratne had been summoned by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID)...
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Ex-military officers’ diplomatic service more immense than others: Gota
The service rendered by retired military officers as Sri Lanka’s envoys abroad was more immense and better than that of the others, former defence s...
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OMP wants officers accused of enforced disappearances suspended
In its first interim report, the Office on Missing Persons (OMP) recommended the government to suspend state officials including members of the armed ...
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SLC issues Gunathilaka ‘severe warning’
Sri Lanka Cricket has asked opening batsman Danushka Gunathilaka to pull up his socks following his repeated off the field troubles. The 27-year-old w...
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Decks cleared for arrest of Sri Lanka’s top military chief
Arrangements are in place for the long-awaited arrest of Sri Lanka’s senior-most military officer in connection with an extortion racket and the...
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Kandy Riots 2018: Were Police biased or not? – Kodagoda
The Sinhala-Muslim riots that occurred in 1915 had been repeated 103 years later and consideration needs to be given to whether the Police acted as ...
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SLC anti-corruption unit arrests two Indians
On match-fixing suspicion: Sri Lankan cricket’s anti-corruption unit detained two Indian spectators on suspicion of match-fixing during a domestic...
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Rejected Delimitation Report costs Rs. 21.2 million
A total of Rs.21.2 million had been incurred in the process of creating the Provincial Council Delimitation Report, sources revealed yesterday. The r...
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COPE stops service extension of Peoples' Bank GM
The Peoples' Bank (PB) General Manager is under fire for asking for an extension of service, drawing an 'exorbitant salary' and drawing salary arrears...
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MAIN PARTIES TO VOTE AGAINST DELIMITATION REPORT
Report needs to be passed with a two thirds majority in House: UNP for holding PC elections under old electoral system The United National Front...
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Human Rights Commission Chair criticises media for sensationalising crime
Sri Lanka Human Rights Commission (HRC) Chairperson Deepika Udagama was critical of the media for its lack of social responsibility for sensationalisi...
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Sri Lanka coconut prices plunge 30-pct at auction; export ban may be lifted
Sri Lanka's fresh coconuts dropped to an average 30 percent to 30,793 rupees for 1,000 nuts at the latest auction in August 2018 from a month earlier,...
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Prisons Police has been set up -Thalatha
Minister of Justice and Prison Reforms Thalatha Athukorala says a prisons police has been set up instead of the prisons intelligence unit. Speaking t...
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Sri Lanka navy chief funded mass-murder suspect: CID
Sri Lanka's chief of defence staff Admiral Ravindra Wijegunaratne gave half a million rupees in cash to help the main suspect in the abduction and m...
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Suspect alleged to have fled country with Admiral’s help arrested in Colombo
Wartime abductions, killing of TNA MP Raviraj A high profile-government inquiry into the alleged abduction and disappearance of 11 Tamil youth by the...
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CONTEMPT OF COURT ESTABLISHED
The Court of Appeal yesterday found Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) General Secretary Ven. Galagoda Atte Gnanasara Thera guilty on all four charges and sentenced...
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Liquor price increases
The prices of fast-moving locally manufactured liquor products of Distilleries Company of Sri Lanka (DCSL) have been reportedly increased between Rs. ...
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Fuel prices might drop after Friday: Ministry
The scheduled fuel price revision every two months would come to effect on Friday (10) where there might be a drop in fuel prices, the Finance Ministr...
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Massive amounts of narcotics in custody to be destroyed
Law and Order Minister Ranjith Madduma Bandara on Monday (Aug 6) said that a foolproof and efficient mechanism was urgently required to destroy massiv...
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Moratuwa Uni undergrads invent Thermal Ablation device
A team comprising final year students of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Moratuwa has developed an Endometrial Ablation device...
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