President to sign execution warrants
Convicted drug lords trafficking from prisons to be hanged. President Maithripala Sirisena said he will use his powers to place his signature to exe...
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Mandzukic breaks England hearts and fires Croatia into World Cup final
Moscow, Wednesday: Mario Mandzukic scored the winning goal deep in extra time as Croatia beat England 2-1 in an utterly gripping World Cup semi-final ...
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Susanthika showers praise on Sports Minister
At V. A. Sugathadasa’s birth anniversary on July 10: Olympic medalist, Sports Ministry consultant and Director of the Sugathadasa Sports Complex...
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Mihin liquidator ordered to submit documents by July 25: PCoI on SriLankan
Chairman of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCol) on irregularities at SriLankan Airlines, SriLankan Catering and Mihin Lanka, former Supreme ...
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GUSTY WINDS DAMAGE 262 HOUSES IN COLOMBO SUBURBS
Around 262 houses had been partly damaged due to strong winds that prevailed across Colombo suburbs on Tuesday night. Disaster Management Center (DMC...
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New traffic fines from Sunday, 10 more offences included
The number traffic offences that deserve fines has been increased from July 15 which includes ten new offences, the Director of Traffic Administration...
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Investments under FTA: Singaporean investors keen to enter services and manufacturing sectors
Subsequent to the signing of the Singapore-Sri Lanka Free Trade Agreement (FTA) there is already interest among Singaporean investors to invest in ser...
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ETI Finance to be purchased at US $ 75 million
Singapore-registered Blue Summit Capital Management Ltd and Sri Lanka’s Ben Holdings Ltd. have made a joint investment to purchase the crisis-hit fi...
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Thai cave rescue: All 12 boys and coach rescued
All 12 boys and their football coach who were stranded in the flooded Chiang Rai cave system in Thailand have been rescued after dramatic search opera...
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65-pct of Sri Lanka state workers do not have A-Levels
Less than seven percent of Sri Lanka's 1.1 million public sector workforce have university degrees in commerce, management or science related areas, w...
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USD 585 mn for SL parties from US: JO demands probe
Presidential election 2015: Anuradhapura District UPFA MP Shehan Semasinghe says a comprehensive inquiry is needed to ascertain US funding made availa...
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Kalkudah Police officer arrested for accepting bribe of Rs 300,000
Officer in Charge of the Kalkudah Police Administrative Unit has been arrested while accepting a bribe of Rs 300,000, stated the Bribery Commission. ...
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Samsung opens world’s largest phone factory in India
Reuters – South Korean President, Moon Jae-in and Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, jointly inaugurated the world’s largest mobile factory, in...
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“Vehicle and motorcycle owners would have the capacity of bearing taxes”
– Inland Revenue Dept.- Commissioner of the Inland Revenue Department Ivan Dissanayake has stated that vehicle and motorcycle owners would have the...
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Public and semi government sector employees exceeds 1.1 million
Dr. Amara Satharasinghe Department of Census and Statistics The importance of public sector is an indisputable social and economic reality throughout ...
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Former UL board members appointed in violation of regulations: Official
Unqualified appointments were made to the former Board of Directors of SriLankan Airlines, a top official from the national carrier told the President...
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Rs. 600 million from Rotary to Sri Lanka focus on 2018/19
There has been a donor funding of $ 3.9 million dollars or Rs. 600 million, given by Rotary Foundation to Sri Lanka in the last five years, said the n...
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Can the SLFP be thrown out?
Sampanthan - Tamil National Alliance (TNA) leader R. Sampanthan asked in Parliament as to how the new political party Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SL...
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Parliamentarians reaction to PM’s visit to Singapore
Political representatives say that Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, who is currently in Singapore, should be able to return with the fugitive form...
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Suspects in Anuradhapura murder arrested, three swords and a motorcar found
Another two suspects have been arrested in Thammannakulama, Anuradhapura over the murder of a father of three. They have killed him using sharp obje...
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Vijayakala under fire for LTTE remarks; hailed as hero in Jaffna
After widespread condemnation from all quarters in the south following her controversial statement about the LTTE, former State Minister of Children...
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‘Fiscal position under stress from doubled car and gold imports this year’
Gold and car imports have doubled this year compared to last year, creating tremendous pressure on the fiscal position and on the whole economy, Centr...
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Sri Lanka’s govt gets USD 50Mn loan from OPEC fund for international development
Sri Lanka’s government signed a loan agreement for obtaining financial assistance of US 50 million dollars from OPEC fund for International Developm...
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