News Room : Sri Lanka Navy empowers women with sea duty assignments – The Island
President Ranil Wickremesinghe who attended the 10th Environment Pioneer President’s Medal Awarding Ceremony 2020-2021 held at the Bandaranaike Memorial International Conference Hall, announced that Sri Lanka is establishing the world’s first international environmental university to support the global effort in addressing climate change. The President acknowledged that although climate change is a significant challenge for the world, there is no...
News Room : Pakistan’s Supreme Court rules Imran Khan’s arrest was illegal
Pakistan’s Supreme Court has ruled that former prime minister Imran Khan’s dramatic arrest on corruption charges this week was illegal. The court ordered Khan’s immediate release. His lawyers had argued that his detention from court premises in Islamabad on Tuesday was unlawful. At least 10 people have been killed and 2,000 arrested as violent protests have swept the country since...
News Room : Heavy showers above 100 mm at some places in Western and Sabaragamuwa provinces and in Kandy, Nuwara-Eliya, Galle and Matara districts – The Island
Weather forecast issued at 05.30 a.m. on 12 May 2023 by the Department of Meteorology Showers or thundershowers will occur at times in Western, Sabaragamuwa, Central, North-Western and Southern provinces. Heavy showers above 100 mm are likely at some places in Western and Sabaragamuwa provinces and in Kandy, Nuwara-Eliya, Galle and Matara districts. Several spells of showers will occur in Northern,...
News Room : Naval and fishing communities cautioned – The Island
Naval and fishing communities are advised not to venture into the sea areas bounded by (03N – 20N) and between (85E – 100E) until further notice and to be vigilant while engaging in naval and fishing activities in the sea areas off the coast extending from Galle to Pottuvil via Matara and Hambantota and in the sea areas off...
News Room : Showers in Western, Sabaragamuwa, Central, North-Western and Southern provinces – The Island
Weather forecast issued at 05.30 a.m. on 11 May 2023 by the Department of Meteorology Showers or thundershowers will occur at times in Western, Sabaragamuwa, Central, North-Western and Southern provinces. Fairly heavy showers about 75 mm are likely at some places in Western, Sabaragamuwa and North-Western provinces and in Kandy, Nuwara-Eliya, Galle and Matara districts. Several spells of showers will occur...
News Room : Sajith flays govt. for litigation in S’pore over X-Press disaster
Opposition and SJB leader Sajith Premadasa, in Parliament, yesterday, asked the government to explain why it had opted to file a case seeking damages from the X-Press Pearl’s owners and operators, in Singapore, which is signatory to an international convention that imposes limits on liability claims. “It is beyond comprehension how and why the government decided to invoke jurisdiction of...
News Room : No progress in lower Malwathu Oya project – PM’s Office
USD 160 mn to be obtained from Chinese banks Lower Malwathu Oya multi sector development project hasn’t made progress whatsoever during the past decade, according to a statement issued by Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena’s Office yesterday. The statement quoted Anuradhapura District lawmaker S. M. Chandrasena as having said that there hadn’t been any progress though the first feasibility study was conducted...
News Room : Navy recovers over 85kg of Kerala cannabis in Jaffna – The Island
SJB MP Dr. Harsha de Silva yesterday warned that Sri Lanka’s annual trade concession worth over $500 million to the European Union (EU) through the Generalized System of Preferences Plus (GSP+) would be in jeopardy due to human rights violations and the proposed Anti-Terrorism laws. The former non-Cabinet Minister was speaking in Parliament. Sri Lanka’s garment sector, one of the top...
News Room : Jury finds Trump sexually abused writer in NY department store
A jury in a civil case has found former President Donald Trump sexually abused a magazine columnist in a New York department store in the 1990s. But Trump was found not liable for raping E Jean Carroll in the dressing room of Bergdorf Goodman but liable for defamation for calling the writer’s accusations “a Hoax and a lie”. It is the...
News Room : Navy recovers over 85kg of Kerala cannabis in Jaffna
During a search operation carried out by SLNS Welusumana in the Northern Naval Command on Monday morning, 03 sacks of Kerala cannabis were recovered from shrubs near South beach area of Mandaitivu Island, Jaffna. The sacks contained 22 packages stuffed with Kerala cannabis weighing approximately 85kg and 450g, with a street value of over Rs 28 million was taken into...