A 36-year old man had been arrested for possessing one of the world’s most powerful narcotics, crystal meth, in Mannar today.

The Police will soon introduce a system to identify traffic offenders through traffic surveillance system and to send fine papers to the offenders’ home, the Public Security Ministry said.

A group of people gathered on the streets of Rajagiriya last evening and held a protest against the government’s failures to address the public issues which had severely affected daily lives.

Veteran silver screen artiste and well known comedian Berti Gunathilaka has passed away at the age of 98 this morning.

A group of people staged a protest outside the house of former parliamentarian Hirunika Premachandra in Malabe last night.

Nearly 100 people gathered on the streets of Kohuwala today to mark a silent protest against the economic failure caused by the government and the struggles which had severely affected daily lives.

Private buses are allowed to get the required diesel from the depots owned by the Sri Lanka Transport Board (SLTB), Transport Minister Dilum Amunugama said.

Russia declared a partial ceasefire on Saturday to allow humanitarian corridors out of the Ukrainian cities of Mariupol and Volnovakha, Russia’s defence ministry said.

There will be no fuel scarcity in the country as adequate fuel was received and countrywide distribution has already begun, Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) Chairman W.W.D. Sumith Wijesinghe said.

The Samagi Jana Balawegaya has come out against an article published in the Daily Mirror today under the headline ’SJB invites Wimal, Udaya to join hands’ written by Yohan Perera, stating that the party has never made such an invitation.

Two more suspects have been arrested over the shooting incident opposite the Kethumathi Hospital in Panadura, in which an ambulance driver came under gunshot attack.

The Bingiriya Police initiated an investigation after having recovered a motorcycle along with a human scull and skeletal remains under a culvert at Bowatta in Bingiriya yesterday.

It has been reported that the Education Ministry is planning to call the students to schools according to the number of students during the new school term begins on Monday (7).

As the government assured to minimize power cuts from today, the scheduled power cuts may not take place or reduced depending on the availability of fuel, the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL) Chairman Janaka Ratnaka Rathnayaka said.

Nuwara Eliya April festival is to be held this year on a grand scale with the participation of tens of thousands of local and foreign tourists.

While claiming that the current Sri Lankan government has not demonstrated its unwillingness to pursue accountability UN Human Rights Commissioner Michelle Bachelet at the Human Right Council today called on the Council to pursue alternate strategies

A special tourist train from Kandy to Ella will be operational from today, the Railways Department said.

United National Party (UNP) today called for effective steps to resolve Sri Lanka’s financial crisis including the removal of Ajith Nivard Cabral from the post of Central Bank Governor.

Sri Lanka Embassy in Moscow has made arrangements, in liaison with the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Belarus, to issue transit visa on an urgent basis for those students wishing to temporarily return to Sri Lanka via Moscow.

Australia cricket legend and the greatest leg-spinner of all-time, Shane Warne, has died, aged 52.

A request will be submitted to the next cabinet meeting requesting to pay at least Rs.240 per dollar for remittances sent to Sri Lanka by foreign workers, Labour Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva said

A bomb blast during Friday prayers in a mosque in northern Pakistan has killed at least 56 people according to hospital officials and injured about 65 others.

The bridge linking the Pigeon Island and Matara, which is one of the most famous bridges in Sri Lanka, has collapsed this evening.

There is no use in blaming the government while hiding one’s inabilities. As public servants, our responsibility is not to escape from crises or blame those who caused them, Pavithra Wanniarachchi said today while assuming duties as the new Power M

The Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka has granted permission for power shedding requested for the weekend by Ceylon Electricity Board.

The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) has urgently informed the government to increase the fuel prices and electricity tariffs immediately, to reflect the cost.

The permission has been granted to bury the bodies of those who succumbed to COVID-19 at any cemetery or burial ground with effect from tomorrow (5), the Ministry of Health said.

Colombo High Court Trial-at-Bar today ordered to release ten accused including former Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayke, Central Bank former Governor Arjuna Mahendran from 13 charges in connection with the Central Bank bond auction held on March 29,

Under the Cabinet reshuffle, two more Cabinet Ministers and a State Minister were sworn in before President Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the Presidential Secretariat today.

The Daily Mirror learns that the Rajapaksa brothers had for some time been contemplating removing the duo from the cabinet but when Udaya and Weerawansa had blasted Basil Rajapaksa at a convention held on Wednesday evening, that had been the last str