Acquittal of group indicted for smuggling 197 kg of heroin
By Shamindra Ferdinando
Attorney General Sanjay Rajaratnam, PC, will soon move the Supreme Court against the recent acquittal of five persons indicted at the Colombo High Court Trial-at-Bar for the possession...
BBC reported that Kenyan police have exhumed 21 bodies near the coastal town of Malindi, as they investigate a preacher said to have told followers to starve to death.
Dead children were among those exhumed, and police said they expected...
BBC reported that a group of foreign nationals have been evacuated from Sudan, as fighting between rival armies raged on in the capital Khartoum.
More than 150 people were evacuated by sea to the Saudi Arabian port of Jeddah on...
Weather forecast issued at 05.30 a.m. on 22 April 2023 by the Department of Meteorology
Showers or thundershowers will occur at several places in Eastern, Uva, Northern, North-central, Sabaragamuwa and Central provinces during the afternoon or night. Fairly heavy showers...
by Meera Sirinivasan
Zoologists and conservationists in Sri Lanka on April 19 slammed a recent government proposal exploring the export of monkeys to China, terming it an ad-hoc, illegal, and short-sighted response to a long-standing human-animal conflict. Earlier this month,...
The official launch of the electronic Easter magazine, “Mawatha,” published by the National Catholic Writers’ Organization, under the patronage of the National Catholic Mass Communication Director, Rev. Fr Jude Krishantha Fernando and the participation of the editor of the...
Weather forecast issued at 05.30 a.m. on 22 April 2023 by the Department of Meteorology
Showers or thundershowers will occur at several places in Eastern, Uva, Northern, North-central, Sabaragamuwa and Central provinces during the afternoon or night. Fairly heavy showers...
Easter Sunday attacks
By Norman Palihawadana
Archbishop of Colombo, Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith, yesterday asked whether there had been any investigation into the possible dealings between intelligence agencies and Zahran Hashim’s National Thowheed Jamath.
Addressing an event to mark the fourth anniversary of...
40 to 45 percent of grease in the market adulterated
30 percent of lubricants unauthorised
The Ministry of Power and Energy had proposed to remove the lubricant levy from the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL), regulator of the lubricant...
The defence ministry in Moscow says a Russian fighter jet accidentally bombed the city of Belgorod near the border with Ukraine.
Regional Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said the blast had left a huge crater about 20 metres (60 ft) wide...