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 Gardens area when two men on a motorbike snatched her handbag, it is reported. The Police have commenced an investigation into the matter after the victim had complained of the handbag snatching incident to IGP C.D...
News Room : S Korea in national mourning after deadly Halloween crowd crush – 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, including 19 foreigners.South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol has declared a period of national mourning following a deadly Halloween crush in the country’s capital, Seoul, as distraught relatives flocked to the city’s hospitals searching for their missing family...
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 Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena has ordered a special probe. He has called for a report urgently.It has been alleged that some of the MPs houses, numbering 120, are occupied by outsiders, including security guards. Besides, there are...
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 level in recent months, State Finance Minister Ranjith Siyambalapitiya said on Friday.Addressing the Annual General Meeting of the Sri Lanka Excise Officers’ Association, in Colombo, the Minister said the production of unlicensed liquor had increased...
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 Zimbabwe, whose semi-final hopes have now been dented.Zimbabwe needed 16 from the final over, and after Mosaddek got rid of Brad Evans, Richard Ngarava got a leg-bye four and slammed a huge six over fine-leg to give...
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, including 19 foreigners.South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol has declared a period of national mourning following a deadly Halloween crush in the country’s capital, Seoul, as distraught relatives flocked to the city’s hospitals searching for their missing family...
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, including 19 foreigners.South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol has declared a period of national mourning following a deadly Halloween crush in the country’s capital, Seoul, as distraught relatives flocked to the city’s hospitals searching for their missing family...
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 Thihagoda, Matara, has been remanded until 02 Nov. Matara Chief Magistrate, Isuru Nethikumara, ordered the suspected sub-inspector to be remanded when the latter was produced before him on Saturday afternoon. The 57-year-old Sub Inspector admitted in...
News Room : PSC a ruse to postpone polls – Sumanthiran
TNA Jaffna District MP M. A. Sumanthiran says the proposal calling for the appointment of a select committee on amending the electoral system is another attempt to delay elections.The TNA MP said that the Minister of Justice had written to the Speaker, requesting the appointment of yet another Parliamentary Select Committee, although a previous Parliamentary Select Committee had submitted...
News Room : COPF asks govt. why it shared IMF pact with other committees – 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, including 19 foreigners.South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol has declared a period of national mourning following a deadly Halloween crush in the country’s capital, Seoul, as distraught relatives flocked to the city’s hospitals searching for their missing family...