News Room : CID questions Semini over connection to Thilini Priyamali
The Criminal Investigation Department has interrogated and obtained a statement for nearly 4 hours from popular film and television actress Semini Iddamalgoda for the...
News Room : Derana slammed for using ‘Jenny’ a near-threatened species of parrot as...
Environmentalists have slammed the Derana TV channel for their recent use of a ‘Near Threatened’ species of parrot in one of its cricket-related program...
News Room : US embassy official robbed in Colombo
A female US embassy official has been robbed on the streets of Colombo. The woman had been walking down a street in the Cinnamon...
News Room : S Korea in national mourning after deadly Halloween crowd crush –...
151 people including 19 foreigners killed
(Korea Herald/ANN) Relatives search for missing family members following a crowd crush in Seoul’s Itaewon that killed 151 people,...
News Room : Outsiders occupying MPs’ Madiwala quarters; Speaker orders probe
Security guards, defeated lawmakers among them
By Saman indarajith
Acting on complaints that some persons are unlawfully occupying many of the MPs’ quarters at Madiwela, Speaker...
News Room : Minister shines light on tycoons’ liquor racket
Unauthorised spirit production up by 300%
‘Local brew producers cheated even the British’
A century-old practice of tax evasion by liquor producers had reached a new...
News Room : Sri Lanka rue dropped catch – The Island
Mosaddek Hossain held his nerve, twice in the space of one legal delivery in a chaotic finish, for Bangladesh to earn a three-run win against...
News Room : three Lankans arrested – The Island
151 people including 19 foreigners killed
(Korea Herald/ANN) Relatives search for missing family members following a crowd crush in Seoul’s Itaewon that killed 151 people,...
News Room : India developing world’s most advanced affordable Artificial Heart – The Island
151 people including 19 foreigners killed
(Korea Herald/ANN) Relatives search for missing family members following a crowd crush in Seoul’s Itaewon that killed 151 people,...
News Room : Child injured in accidental discharge of police firearm: SI remanded
By Norman Palihawadane
Thihagoda Police Sub-Inspector, arrested in connection with an accidental discharge of a police firearm, and causing injury to a 15-year-old boy, in...