Kurunegala Mayor Thushara Sanjeewa Vitharana (SLPP), has been sacked from office and membership of the council over allegations of corruption against him by the North Western Province Governor Admiral Wasantha Karannagoda.
Associated Press photographer in Sri Lanka Eranga Jayawardena and Mumbai based Rafiq Maqbool have been nominated as finalists in the prestigious Pulitzer award for breaking news photography in 2023 for their coverage of the May/June 2022 incidents in Sri Lanka.
A group of 41 Sri Lankan illegal immigrants arrested and deported by Australian authorities arrived in Sri Lanka last morning by air. They had voyaged by sea on board multi-day fishing trawlers only to be arrested in their attempt to enter Australia. They had been detained in Christmas Island pending deportation. Investigations revealed t
The inter tropical convergence and the increased temperature in the sea will give rise to current atmospheric disturbances and cyclonic storms in Sri Lanka, the Department of Meteorology said yesterday. “The disturbances
The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) will review a formal complaint received in recent weeks about the X -Press Pearl disaster. Though the 1978 Constitution of Sri Lanka does not directly see the environment as a matter of fundamental rights, it does contain several provisions that relate to the environment, an official statement from it said.
The Fundamental Rights petition filed seeking an order directing the authorities to take legal action against the main culprits responsible for the current economic crisis in the country was yesterday fixed for July 5 by the Supreme Court
The Kap Planting ceremony at the Ruhunu Kataragama Maha Devala was held on Saturday morning with the participation of Basnayake Nilame Dishan Gunasekara. Basnayake Nilame said the Esala festival would commence on June 18 and last till July 03. He said according to tradition, the Kap planting ceremony should be performed 45 days prior to the festival.
Questions have been raised why the Ministry of Defence fails to stop the administration of the Kotelawala Defence University (KDU) and its affiliated hospital - the University Hospital of the Kotelawala Defence University (UH-KDU) from engaging in corrupt activities that have brought the reputation of the two institutions to the lowest level in its long-standing history.
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