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The stock of 1.5 million AHINI vaccines donated by the World Health Organization (WHO) has being used to immunize 8% of the population and the last 50,000 vaccines of the stock will have to be used before Friday, the expiry date, a Health Ministry spokesman said

The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) took into custody two out of four suspects who withdrew over Rs.14 million from ATMs after obtaining customer information using advanced electronic devices fixed on the ATM machines, the police said

A new online visa scheme Sri Lanka plans to introduce, replacing existing on-arrival visas, will be tested for three months before the government decides to implement it, an official said

A debate would be conducted in Parliament next Friday on the subjects assigned to the Senior Ministers and their role in governance, the UNP said today. The House will meet tomorrow for the first time for the year 2011

Everyone would see who would lead the UNP before the next local government elections, UNP MP and Media Spokesman Gayantha  Karunatilleke
 said

Leader of the Nava Sihala Urumaya Sarath Manamendra was released a short while ago after parties involved in the dispute resolved the matter amicably, police spokesman SP Preshantha Jayakody told Daily Mirror online

The price of eggs and chicken could be reduced in a large percentage if not for the high cost of production. The government should bring down the prices of forage, medicine and other raw material required by poultry farmers, the All Island Poultry Farmers’ Association said

Leader of the Nava Sihala Urumaya Sarath Manamendra was taken into custody by the Welikada police for threatening two persons with a pistol, police said

Four crew members of the MV Sun Sea that arrived off the coast of B.C. last summer are alleged to be Tamil Tigers operatives who helped organize the high-seas smuggling trip, federal officials say

Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa advised all the senior officers in the military and the police service that have experience of more than twenty years to write a book so that the public would know the hardships and sacrifices they made to liberate the country from terrorism

The Tamil political parties were trying to forge an alliance to contest the local government election under a common symbol, former MP M.K. Sivajilingam said today

The Tamil National Alliance is looking forward to meet the government this month to discuss the contours of a political solution. There are positive signals from the government in this respect, TNA Spokesman MP Suresh Premachandran said

More than Rs 300 million has been spent for relief for flood victims in the year 2010 and Rs 200 million upwards will be spent for the current flood victims, the Ministry of Disaster Management said

Three senior UNP parliamentarians will meet UNP party leader Ranil Wickremesinghe today for a discussion where the trio is to stress the need for preserving unity in the party while understanding the ground realities, party sources told Daily Mirror

The Kuwait Criminal Court acquitted a Kuwaiti resident accused of sexually assaulting his Sri Lankan housemaid. The lawyer of the suspect Faisal Al-Otaibi argued there were lots of unsolved puzzles in the maid’s account, which points to the fact that the case was fabricated

The Criminal Investigations Department arrested a Malaysian human smuggler who ran a human smuggling ring in Sri Lanka, at the Bandaranaike International Airport yesterday, the police said

Two hundred and twenty eight persons were treated at the Colombo National Hospital with injuries due to road traffic accidents, violence and fireworks till 8.00am today, the Director of the Colombo National Hospital Dr. Hector Weerasinghe told Daily Mirror online

Issues like the plight of Sri Lankan Tamils will work against the ruling DMK in the Tamil Nadu assembly polls due in May, MDMK chief Vaiko said today

Twenty two families were displaced and a person was injured when a line house in Kadapola caught fire due to an electrical short-circuit around1.50 am today

The Colombo Stock Market (CSE) has become the Asia’s best Stock Market in 2010 with a surge of 96 percent while Indonesia that rose a 46.1 per cent becoming a distant second, the Economic Times reported.