Deforestation near Sinharaja The government had decided to take over 1,500 acres adjoining Sinharaja forest, including a seven-acre land which had been the centre of controversy...
By Rathindra Kuruwita JVP Leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake would soon be questioned for having made Mohammed Ibrahim, father of two of the Easter Sunday suicide bombers,...
Prison officers had yesterday conducted PCR tests on former Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake and others remanded over the alleged criminal misappropriation of Rs 36.98 bn at...
There was no need to increase the price of gas during the festive season, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa said yesterday addressing a meeting at the Temple...
The government had allocated Rs. 20 billion in 2021 for the development of the judicial system, Minister of Justice Mohamed Ali Sabry said yesterday after an...
Vaccine import should be state preserve – lab technologists By Rathindra Kuruwita The government could allow the private sector to import COVID-19 vaccines if the state...
Pestalotiopsis leaf disease, a new threat to rubber trees across the whole world, has now become a grave threat to the sustainability of the rubber plantation...
National Peace Council (NPC) yesterday welcomed the government’s announcement that proposed laws to ban the wearing of the burqa and closure of a thousand Muslim madrasas...
By Shamindra Ferdinando A section of Railway trade unions and the Transport Ministry are on a collision course over the latter’s plans to obtain further financial...
Criminal misappropriation of Rs 36 bn: By A.J. Abeynayake A three-member bench of the Colombo High Court yesterday (17) remanded eight persons, including former Finance Minister...