The price of a 450g loaf of bread was increased by Rs 4 with effect from effect from midnight. Accordingly the new price of a loaf would be about Rs 59.

The Government Medical Officer’s Association (GMOA) today warned that doctors would be compelled to leave the country because of the difficulties they undergo when looking for schools for their children.

UPFA MP Udaya Gammanpila said today that he had decided to deliberately fall down at each ‘Jana Satana’ rally organised by the Joint Opposition.

The Sinhala Ravaya today lodged a complaint at the Police Headquarters against the United National Party (UNP) in connection with the rally organized by the party at the Colombo Lipton Circus on March 15.  

Seven persons including five monks and two women, who were remanded for acting in a violent manner outside the Homagama Magistrate’s Court on January 26, were released on bail by Homagama Magistrate Ranga Dissanayake today.

Bangladeshi investigators will travel to Sri Lanka, Philippines and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to investigate the theft of $ 81 million from its accounts, a news report on AFP said.

Two persons were arrested while transporting 29 herons which they killed illegally for food at Eeralakulam, Karadiyanaru yesterday.

The Gampaha Police are on the lookout for a person called ‘Dunesh Priyasantha, alias Kondaya,’ as he was allegedly found naked near a female calf.

The famous Elephant Rock, or Ethagala, Kurunegala Town, has developed cracks at two locations. Each crack is said to be about 50 feet in length.

Dikwella Police (in the Matara District) have arrested a man who had kept a 15-year-old girl by force and allegedly tortured her, even forcing her to drink urine and beer.

The new Mahanayake Thera of the Asgiriya Chapter of the Siam Sect is to be elected on April 07, 2016.

Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone was in Colombo yesterday on a brief visit to attend her best friend’s wedding in Colombo, reports said.

No one will be able to topple this government prematurely and do not get deceived by false statements made by conspirators, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe said on Saturday.

The government is planning to revive diesel power plants which were shut down last year after the Norochcholai Coal Power Plant started generating power to the national grid.

Former Sri Lankan cricketer Mahela Jayawardena rejected rumors published on social media stating that he will join the Sri Lankan team.

A team of German technicians are scheduled to arrive in Sri Lanka tomorrow (21) to investigate the two unusual explosions at the Biyagama Grid Sub Station and the Kotugoda CEB Grid Sub Station recently, the Power and Renewable Energy Ministry said.

The Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) will not allow war heroes to be questioned by the international community under any circumstances as long as the party is a part of the government, Minister of Megapolis and Western Development Patali Champika Ranawaka

A part of the Colombo Municipality building in Town Hall is to be converted into a museum, archiving vital documents and other valued equipment used during the inception of the council.

A final year student of the Management Faculty of the Colombo University had been reported missing since last night, while bathing at the Kalu Ganga river in Anguruwathota, the Police said.

Bodies of a 32-year-old woman and her child had been found in a well at Periyapei, Palai last night.

Investigators of the Indian Special Investigation Team (SIT) have hinted that it could seek help from the Interpol to probe the link into the kidney extractions carried out in Sri Lanka, after following the due procedure of law.

Sathsarani Hettiarachchi of Visaka Vidyalaya, Colombo 2, has topped the island rankings at the GCE Ordinary Level Examination in 2015.

The results of the GCE Ordinary Level Examination 2015 were released, the Examinations Department announced. Results could be obtained through www.doenets.lk/exam or www. results.exams.gov.lk.

The time given by the Presidential Commission to the public to submit their complaints and petitions regarding inquiries into Serious Acts of Fraud, Corruption and Abuse of Power, State Resources and Privileges (PRECIFAC) will end on March 24, 2016.

President Maithripala Sirisena has reiterated that he will not have international judges on the bench for probe on war crimes cases which have been allegedly committed by government troops and the LTTE.