The Supreme Court has granted permission to name former President Ranil Wickremesinghe as a respondent in Fundamental Rights (FR) petitions filed regarding the alleged police attack and dispersing of a protest organized by the Socialist Youth Union (SYU) in 2022. MORE..
22 Oct 2024 (6:02 PM)
The Police Special Task Force (STF) has apprehended the two gunmen involved in the shooting and killing of a person in the Kekanadura area of Matara. MORE..
22 Oct 2024 (12:00 PM)
The Cabinet of Ministers has approved the proposal to obtain a loan of US$ 30 million from the general capital resources of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), directly to the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) in two instalments, for the completion of the Moragolla hydropower project. MORE..
22 Oct 2024 (3:33 PM)
A new chairman and commission members have been appointed to the National Transport Commission (NTC). MORE..
22 Oct 2024 (2:26 PM)
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has instructed the Provincial Governors to prepare and submit a new proposal aimed at rationalizing the Provincial Council mechanism. MORE..
22 Oct 2024 (3:55 PM)
Two private passenger transported buses were involved in a head-on collision this afternoon (22) near the Dewrum Pitiya bend in the Avissawella police division, injuring around 28 people who were subsequently hospitalized. MORE..
22 Oct 2024 (7:09 PM)