Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena yesterday (17) declared that the Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) wouldn’t convene until further notice. The announcement was made in the wake...
Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardana yesterday (17) announced that Seyed Ali Zahir Moulana, MP, has been nominated to serve in the Select Committee of Parliament to study...
The U.S. Embassy in Colombo yesterday (17) announced a new USD 32.5 mn grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to Sri Lanka for the...
The Indian Navy’s Kora-class guided missile corvette INS Kora (P61) left Colombo harbour yesterday (17) following a brief visit (pic courtesy Navy)
Amidst Opposition accusations that a load of inferior quality products that had been procured by Lanka IOC was unloaded here recently, LIOC claimed that joint sampling...
A Sri Lanka-based businessman, kidnapped by a gang of six, including a woman, over a financial transaction, was rescued by city police in Chennai after they...
The Public Finance Committee has declared that the salary of the Chairperson of the proposed Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) should be...
By Rathindra Kuruwita Police Special Task Force (STF) seized a 40-foot container with over 10 million sticks of cigarettes, with a street value of 1.3 billion...
Chairman of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) Selection Committee Pramodya Wickramasinghe has been asked to appear before the Special Investigation Unit (SIU) for Preventing Sports Offences. Sources...
A high-level Vietnamese delegation comprising 35 members, led by Bui Van Nghiem, Member of the Party Central Committee term XIII of the Communist Party and Secretary...