1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (231+ words) Environment Minister Dammika Patabendi has ordered a temporary halt to construction work on a gabion wall at the Wahatiyagoda coastal area in Pamunugama, Wattala, pending an investigation into whether the structure has extended beyond approved boundaries. The Minister carried out…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (144+ words) Sri Lanka and Thailand are set to sign an agreement on the employment of Sri Lankan workers in Thailand during Foreign Minister Vijitha Herath’s official visit to the country from Sept. 14 to 16. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Employment and…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (112+ words) A restaurant in Valaichchenai has been fined Rs. 750,000 by the Valaichchenai Magistrate’s Court for selling bottled drinking water above the maximum retail price set by the Consumer Affairs Authority (CAA). The case was filed by Batticaloa District Investigation Officers of…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (208+ words) Sri Lanka and Palestine reaffirmed their longstanding friendship this week, with both sides pledging to deepen cooperation across diplomatic, economic, educational and humanitarian spheres. According to the Representative Office of Sri Lanka in Ramallah, Sri Lanka’s Representative to Palestine, Farook…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago   (264+ words) Leader of the House, Minister Bimal Rathnayake today (10) commended Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa for raising concerns about the impacts of the El Niño–La Niña climate phenomenon on Sri Lanka. Addressing the Parliament, Rathnayake noted that Premadasa had been drawing…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (102+ words) Twenty passengers were injured this morning when a private bus travelling towards Colombo toppled into a canal near the 7th mile post area along the Polonnaruwa–Habarana Road, Police said. According to the Police, the bus, carrying around 40 passengers, veered off…...

5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (116+ words) Work on multiple expressways to begin this year – Transport Minister Newswire Minister of Transport and Highways Bimal Rathnayake announced in Parliament on Tuesday (08) that construction on several new expressway projects will commence before the end of this year. He said…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (243+ words) SLPP’s Milinda Rajapaksa, representing a civil society organisation, has raised concerns over what he described as growing threats to individual liberty, the rule of law and institutional checks and balances in Sri Lanka during an intervention at the UN Human…...

6+ day, 1+ hour ago   (143+ words) The Cabinet has approved a Rs. 173.86 million consultancy services contract for a sustainable tourism sector development programme funded through a US$30 million loan from the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The Transport, Highways and Urban Development Ministry called for expressions of…...

6+ day, 5+ hour ago   (147+ words) Sri Lanka and India are set to sign three defence cooperation agreements tomorrow (9), during the official visit of Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Foreign Affairs Minister Vijitha Herath confirmed. The agreements will cover cadet training and joint programmes, cooperation between…...