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The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) yesterday (19) took seven hours to record a statement from Senior DIG Southern Province Ravi Wijegunawardena in relation to the brutal murder of two businessmen from the Rathgama area.
20 Jun 2019 - 0 - 146
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is unable to visit Sri Lanka as previously announced due to unavoidable scheduling conflicts, the US Embassy said yesterday.
20 Jun 2019 - 0 - 460
The committee comprising medical experts appointed to conduct examinations of the women who lodged complaints against Dr. Shihabdeen Mohamed Shafi led by the Colombo Chief Judicial Medical Officer are due to conduct their examinations of these women at the Castle Street Maternity Hospital and the De Soysa Maternity Hospital, the police said.
20 Jun 2019 - 0 - 112
Former Ministers Kabir Hashim and M.H.A. Haleem, who resigned recently, were sworn in again in their previous portfolios before President Maithripala Sirisena yesterday morning, the President’s Media unit said.
20 Jun 2019 - 0 - 25
Leader of the House Lakshman Kiriella said yesterday there was no obstacle to resubmit a document which was withdrawn on the same day and that he resubmitted the supplementary estimate on Wednesday according to Standing Orders.
20 Jun 2019 - 0 - 59
Five persons including four women were killed while another twelve sustained injuries in a fatal accident involving a van and a tractor at Welikanda on the Batticaloa-Polonnaruwa Road in the early hours of yesterday, Police said.
20 Jun 2019 - 0 - 42
COPE Chairman Sunil Hadunnetti yesterday raised a point in parliament that the respective ministers had not responded to the COPE report presented in parliament on January 24, 2019 even after 16 weeks though they should respond to it within eight weeks.
20 Jun 2019 - 0 - 52
President Maithripala Sirisena yesterday promised that an honourable decision which will not cause injustice or embarrassment to the party or its supporters would be taken by the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) at the next presidential election.
20 Jun 2019 - 0 - 15
A few Muslim organizations, including Ceylon Thowheed Jamath and Sri Lanka Thowheed Jamath will be summoned to testify before Parliamentary Select Committee today (PSC) over the Easter Sunday bomb attacks.
20 Jun 2019 - 0 - 12
The Finance Ministry has issued a circular last week asking for the curtailment of Capital expenditures of the Ministries by 15% considering the prevailing situation of the country, a Minister said yesterday.
20 Jun 2019 - 0 - 0
Minister of Education Akila Viraj Kariyawasam said that a decision had been taken not to select the top achievers in the country with regards to two major national examinations, the G.C.E. (O.L.) and the Year 5 Scholarship and instead a ruling on whether the student had failed or passed the examination would be given.
20 Jun 2019 - 0 - 1
Government’s decision to cut capital expenditure will affect the contractors who have already undertaken to implement various government projects, UPFA MP Bandula Gunawardane said yesterday.
19 Jun 2019 - 0 - 485
The Court of Appeal yesterday dismissed without costs the petitions filed by former defence secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa contesting the order of the Permanent High Court Trial-at-Bar, which is hearing the D.A. Rajapaksa Museum Case.
19 Jun 2019 - 0 - 0
The Finance Ministry is reported to have instructed all ministries to curtail their capital expenditure announced in the budget by 15 per cent because of the financial constraints faced by the government.
19 Jun 2019 - 0 - 562
A suspect had been taken into custody from Udupeellagoda Hakmana for severing the tongue and killing of a German Shepherd Pet. This was informed by the Hakmana Police.
19 Jun 2019 - 0 - 213
The government yesterday presented a supplementary estimate in parliament to allocate funds for various subjects such as to purchase a vehicle for Opposition leader Mahinda Rajapaksa and renovation of official residence of Public Enterprise Minister Lakshman Kiriella though it was withdrawn in the morning claiming that it was defective.
19 Jun 2019 - 0 - 101
President Maithripala Sirisena has once again registered his protest to Education Minister Akila Viraj Kariyawasam over the plan to distribute free electronic tablets among schoolchildren.
19 Jun 2019 - 0 - 65
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday assured that the annual Esala Perahera will be held in a grand scale this year.
19 Jun 2019 - 0 - 71
Maulavi K. R. M. Sahlan who represents the Sufi Sect yesterday said the Sufi Islamic leaders in Kattankudi had informed the President’s office, Prime Minister’s Office and Attorney General’s Department and the IGP about the extremism that was visible in the area.
19 Jun 2019 - 0 - 13
Former OIC of the Kattankudy Police Ariyabandu Wedagedara said he had not received any complaints of Zahran’s extremist activities except for some clashes between Muslim sects in Kattankudy over religious matters.
The Attorney General yesterday instructed the acting IGP to immediately send him a report on the current status of the investigations into the Easter Sunday bomb attacks and the incidents of vandalising the Buddha statues in Mawanella.
19 Jun 2019 - 0 - 41
The Katankudi Police OIC Nishantha Kathuriarachchi yesterday said Katankudi was very peaceful and calm when I took over
19 Jun 2019 - 0 - 23
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has met President Maithripala Sirisena yesterday to discuss the reinstatement of Muslim Cabinet Ministers and the two leaders have agreed to have a further discussion to sort out a few contentious issues, a senior Cabinet Minister said.
18 Jun 2019 - 0 - 276
Sri Lanka’s first-ever satellite ‘RAAVANA-1’ – designed and d
18 Jun 2019 - 0 - 760
The former Kattankudy Police OIC and a representative of the Sufi Muslims in Kattankudy have been summoned to appear today at 2.00 p.m. before the Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) appointed to probe the Easter Sunday attacks, MP
18 Jun 2019 - 0 - 182
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has assigned Ministers P. Harrison and Chandrani Bandara to coordinate work on the declaration of Mihintale as a national heritage site, a statement said.
18 Jun 2019 - 0 - 62
Health Minister Rajitha Senaratne said yesterday he would not allow the import of foreign cigarettes as long as he remained the Health Minister. Earlier, Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera said cigarettes should be imported from China as Chinese workers in Sri Lanka were highly dependent on them.
18 Jun 2019 - 0 - 54
The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) will field its own candidate at the next presidential election, its politburo member K.D. Lalkantha said yesterday. He told a news conference that his party would reveal the name of its candidate early next mo
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Police Spokesman Ruwan Gunasekara said yesterday the investigation launched by the CID into assets earned through suspicious means by Dr. Siyabdeen Mohamed Safi was still in progress. The 42-year-old doctor attached
18 Jun 2019 - 0 - 52
With the seizure of over 900kg of Beedi leaves last Sunday from Mannar, the Navy had seized over 14 tonnes of Beedi leaves during raids conducted this year.
20 Jun 2019
