Daily NEWS Srilanka

President Maithripala Sirisena has assured that legal status will be accorded to win the Trade Union demands of journalists. The President was addressing the Sixth Media Employees Trade Union Federation Convention of the Journalists. The Sixth Media Employees Trade Union Federation Convention was held at the Mahaweli Centre in Colombo under the auspices of Preside...

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe has expressed his condolence over the death of Former Cuban Leader Fidel Castro. The Prime Minister signed the condolence book placed at the Cuban Embassy in Colombo over the demise of the former President of Cuba and an iconic revolutionary leader of the 20th century. The Prime Minister, after signing t...

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe will be leaving for Hong Kong tomorrow to participate in the 2017 World Conference. The Conference is being organized by The Economic international Magazine. It brings together an intellectually curious audience including readers of The Economist, C-suite executives and business leaders, senior representatives from governments, leading academics and thinkers. Prof. Maith...

Leave of drivers and conductors of the Sri Lanka Transport Board has been cancelled for one week. The Transport Board is getting ready to face any emergency strike situation, operating 6000 buses. Several Private Bus Associations are planning to launch a strike tomorrow. The Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation Services said that the S...

The Health Ministry has appointed a committee to investigate the deaths of four individuals at the Colombo National Hospital. This three member Committee has been appointed on the instructions of Minister Rajitha Senaratne. Initiatives have been taken to suspend the dye that is being used in heart surgeries. According to the Health Ministry, the fo...

Many development projects are planned under the Western Region Megapolis Project. Cabinet approval has been granted to develop infrastructure including mega road projects. Based on improvements to the Road System, Baseline Road will be extended to Galle Road. It is planned to extend the Polduwa-Koswatte Road which is under construction to Kelaniya via Kolonnawa. T...

The Palestinian People’s International Solidarity Day function was held in Colombo. The event was organized under Minister Rajitha Senaratne, the President of the Palestinian Solidarity Association. Messages of the President and the Prime Minister were presented at the Palestinian Solidarity Day commemoration ceremony. Expressing his views on the occasion, Minister Rajitha Senaratne said that S...

The Court has issued an order to former Minister Mervyn Silva to pay a compensation of 400,000 rupees to a house owner whose house was partly demolished in the Kiribathgoda area during the previous regime. A group including Mervyn Silva had been accused of dismantling part of a house in the Kiribthgoda area under t...

The Eleven suspects considered to be in the ‘Aava’ group have been released on bail. Colombo Additional Magistrate Aruni Attygalle enlarged them on a surety bail of one million rupees each. They were also barred from foreign travel. The Magistrate also ordered the suspects to report to the Terrorist Investigations Division in Jaffna on t...

The case related to the allegation made against Former Minister Basil Rajapaksa over the purchase of a land in the Eliyakanda area in Matara was taken up in the Matara Magistrate’s Court today. Basil Rajapaksa has been indicted with regard to an allegation that he had not succeeded in revealing the manner he used mon...

The police have arrested a suspect over the death of an individual who was shot in Peellawatta area last week. A team attached to the Western Province (North) Crime Division nabbed the suspect in Pallama area in Miguran-kadawala yesterday. A Police Officer said that they have also seized a T-56 firearm and five ammos a...

A special Police team of the Puttalam Police Superintendent’s Office has seized a stock of Kerala ganja that was being buried in the Thaala-Adi area in Kalpitiya. The ganja was valued at 3.5 million rupees. This haul of Kerala Ganja was taken into custody when a certain man was shrewdly burying it in a lar...

A state commemorative ceremony under the auspices of President for Fidel Castro To commemorate the late Cuban  revolutionary leader Fidel Castro a state sponsored commemorative ceremony has been arranged under the auspices of President Maithripala Sirisena.This special programme about his qualitative virtue is arranged for Friday...

Wasim Akram to Sri Lanka for work shop It was not so long ago that Wasim Akram the left arm swing bowler of Pakistan  was a threat to many batsmen all over the world. Wasim Akram is to participate in a work shop conducted by the Sri Lanka Cricket to be held at the Sinhalese Sports Club rounds on the 1st December.This work shop is...

Ranil's nails have grown to  help scratch the external of media men (Wednesday's cartoon) ...

To come soon! Arjun's media network which will shudder the media world! Much of the activities in connection with launching the new media network under the ownership of millionaire businessman Arjun Aloysius of Perpetual Treasuries Company which earned extensive profits have already been completed. As such a media institution with a fresh...

Grace period to register vehicles ... extended Several months more to implement fines according to new system Though the grace period given to vehicle owners with open papers to register their vehicles was to end today November 30th, as a large number are still rocking to the Narahenpita Motor Traffic Department in this connection, the...

Cause of wreck of car - train accident ... case of boozing It has now been revealed that the accident which took place in Wadduwa Pothupitiya level-crossing yesterday (27) was the result of a case of driving carelessly under the influence of heavy drinking and not being able to understand the situation under intoxication in which instance...

Chandimal's Assistant flees after pinching 2 million Police have received a complaint about a person who robbed about 2 million cash and jewellery working under well-known Beautician Chandimal Jayasingha and had fled to Middle East. This person known as Pubudu Gamage aged 30 years who has last week pinched Rs. 15 lakhs from the drawer...

“Run the Tide” is an upcoming film directed by Soham Mehta and written by Rajiv Shah. It will star Taylor Lautner, Constance Zimmer, Kenny Johnson and Johanna Braddy. A young man, Reymund Hightower has been caring for his ten-year-old brother ever since his mother was sent to prison for drug-related charges seven years prior. The...

India sealed a rather comfortable win in Mohali and achieved the 103-run target England had set them after being bowled out for 238 in their second innings. Parthiv Patel played an entertaining knock and remained unbeaten on 67 to cap off a resounding win for India and give his side an unassailable 2-0 series lea...

Argentina’s triumphant Davis Cup team returned home to a hero’s welcome. After being greeted at the airport by hundreds of fans the team then attended an official meeting with President Mauricio Macri, who gave each of them a medal for their historic achievement. Argentina beat Croatia in Zagreb to win the title for a fir...

For only the third time in the history of the competition a tiebreaker will be needed to decide the World Chess Championships. The final in New York pitted 25-year-old defending champion Magnus Carlsen from Norway against 26-year-old Russia Sergey Karjakin. The pair entered the 12th and what should have been the final match of t...

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe has emphasized in Parliament that it was proposed to increase the allowances of Parliamentarians not to be used for their domestic use but on behalf of their voters. The Prime Minister made this comment referring to a report published in an English newspaper. The Prime Minister told the House that ...

Kurunegala school girl  abused by employee of the Child and women's  protection authority It is sadly reported that am under aged  seventeen year old school girl studying in a popular school in Kurunegala has been provoked for sex by telephoning ans sending sms's by an employee of the national child and women's protection...

Minister to grant a respite period for penalty of overtaking from left The minister of transport Nimal Siripala de Silva has lamented that it has been considered to allow a respite period for the penalty of rupees twenty five thousand imposed for the offence of overtaking vehicles from the left side. In this regard the Minister is prepared...

Karuna Amman remanded The former Minister Vinayagamoorthy Muralidharan alias Karuna Amman has been arrested by the Colombo  financial crimes investigation unit. It is reported that he had been summoned by the police FCIU to obtain a statement today the 29th instant..After recording a statement he had been arrested and remanded for...

President Maithripala Sirisena has designated the years 2017, 2018, and 2019 as the “Years of Tourism and Investment for a Prosperous Sri Lanka”. The President officially made this declaration participating as the Chief Guest in the inauguration ceremony of the first Asia Hotel and Tourism Investment Conference at the Hilton Hotel in Colombo. The As...

Consumption of meat reduced while consumption of fish on the increase in year 2016 A survey made by the officials of the fisheries and aquatic resources has revealed that in the current year 2016 the  individual  has gone up to 46.7  in the index of consumption of fish on a daily basis. In comparison the these figures in...

Whom did Santa clause come to meet secretly ( Tuesday's cartoon) ...