Former PUCSL Chairman, Janaka Ratnayake who was sacked from his position by Parliament on Wednesday said that since all common political candidates had failed, he would contest the next Presidential Election as a People’s Candidate. Speaking to D

Sri Lanka has been ranked as the 11th most miserable country in the Hanke’s Annual Misery Index (HAMI) 2022. Economist Steve Hanke’s index provided rankings for a total of 157 countries. The index is the sum of the year-end unemployment, inflat

Grant provided to open Parliament proceedings, COPE and COPA live to the media

MP Ali Sabri Raheem is engaged in a political game by voting against the resolution to remove the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka Chairman, SJB MP Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka charged yesterday.

The Kandy High Court had dismissed the four cases filed against the Diyawadana Nilame

Says he has misused his parliamentary privileges

2022 (2023) GCE Ordinary Level (O/L) examination admission cards should not be withheld by the principals without giving them to the candidates for any reason, the Education Ministry announced to all principals yesterday. The Minis

The Attorney General has informed the Supreme Court that the Secretary to the Ministry of Plantation Industry is currently studying the possibility of providing registered permanent addresses to the estate community residents. Deputy Solicitor G

Parliament yesterday voted out Chairman of Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL) Janaka Ratnayake by adopting a motion with 123 votes in favour and 77 against, an act that indicates that the government commands majority support of the Hous

The sudden shift to organic farming in 2021 by former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa resulted in a drop of more than 50 percent in paddy yield in the 2021/2022 Maha season, according to a research. The then government enacted

Volunteers discover more than 200 bottles in Wattala

One man held a solo protest in favour of Public Utilities Commission Chairman Janaka Ratnayake who is expected to be removed from his post after Parliament approved a motion to that effect.

I don’t know why I’m here. They asked us to come, we came

MP Ali Sabri Raheem who was charged with smuggling gold said the consignment of gold did not belong to him. “ The consignment belongs to a friend of

The Attorney General yesterday informed the Supreme Court that the CID has already initiated an investigation against Pastor Jerome Fernando over his hate remarks against religious harmony in the country.

a small nuclear power station of 110 megawatts- two blocks each with 55 megawatts is proposed

The public sector employees who submitted nominations for the Local Government elections handed over a petition to the Ministry of Public Administration claiming that they have received transfers to

A half naked Chinese who behaved in unruly manner near the old light house in the Galle Fort was taken into custody to find that he had been over staying in Sri Lanka since December 2021 after the expiry of his tourist visa. Investigations revealed

The Japan-Lanka Friendship Association, with the generous support of Mr. Goto Hideaki and the crew, handed over two sky ladders and a fire engine, along with 13 scholarships for school children of SLAF serving personnel and a consignment of reading s

Refuting recently circulated claims, the State Minister of Finance said there is no way the government is going to reduce liquor prices in the near future. State Finance Minister Ranjith Siyambalapitiya speaking at Parliament said there were report

Just over a year since former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa resigned from office following nationwide protests demanding him to step down, evidence has come to light that the former president’s staff who are mostly political appointees continue to b

The Department of Immigration and Emigration have commenced its own investigation on the Chinese national who was taken into custody trying to enter Sri Lanka with a forged passport last week, and stated there was no

Public Security Minister Tiran Alles has directed the officials of the Department of Immigration and Emigration to deport the Chinese national who had arrived in the country with two forged passports. At the instructions of the Public Security Min

Third largest haul of gold in the last ten days at the BIA Arrival Terminal by Customs

Govt. MPs who are abroad have been asked to return immediately

The Grama Niladhari Division in Colombo which was previously known as Slave Island would be now called ‘Kompanna Veediya’ (as it is pronounced) in all three languages. Earlier the area was known as Slave Island while it was called ‘Kompanna

Wine stores in the country should be at least opened from 10 am to 10 pm so as to increase excise levy, Parliamentarian Diana Gamage said yesterday.

The Chairman of the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL) Janaka Ratnayake expressed confidence that he will not be removed, ahead of the parliamentary vote to remove him from the institution.

Sri Lankan High Commission in Canada has raised objections to the erection of a monument to commemorate what the Tamil community living there called’ genocide of Tamil civilians in Sri Lanka during the war’, Daily Mirror learns. The groundbreak

MP Raheem was arrested at Bandaranaike International Airport yesterday morning