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‘New generation of voters is needed’

Friday, 29 July 2016 14:03

Politicians are not a bane for society and Sri Lanka does not have bad politicians, according to elections commission chairman Mahinda Deshapriya.

Astrologers consulted to fix date for exam commencement

Friday, 29 July 2016 12:53

Authorities had taken advice from astrologers to commence the GCE advanced level examination on August 02, reports say.

Mahinda Balasooriya could be arrested?

Friday, 29 July 2016 11:14

Former IGP Mahinda Balasooriya has been summoned to the CID, to record a statement over the Lasantha Wickramatunga murder, reports say.

Akila catches 22 drivers using ministry cars to run night taxi service

Friday, 29 July 2016 10:43

Twenty two drivers attached to the education ministry have been suspended by minister Akila Viraj Kariyawasam.

Namal, 5 others named as money laundering suspects

Friday, 29 July 2016 09:45

The attorney general has named MP Namal Rajapaksa and five of his friends as suspects in a dubious translation in which shares of Hello Corp had been bought with money earned through inappropriate means.

Sri Lanka deploy Security officers within Tamil majority campus

Friday, 29 July 2016 09:43

Security forces and police have been deployed within a university in Sri Lanka with a majority Tamil undergraduate population, the country’s police chief has revealed.

Kandy - Colombo march, a political gimmick by a bunch of crooks: Sagala

Friday, 29 July 2016 09:41

The planned march from Kandy to Colombo will do nothing to break the historic partnership between the United National Party and the Sri Lanka Freedom Party, led by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and President Maithripala Sirisena respectively. If at all it is an effort to destroy the marriage that took place on January 8, 2015 between the people of this country and the idea of democracy, Law and Order and Southern Development Sagala Ratnayaka stated in a release yesterday.

New USAID mission director signals surge in US development assistance in Sri Lanka

Friday, 29 July 2016 09:36

Signaling a surge in US development assistance for Sri Lanka, the newly-arrived Dr. Andrew Sisson official assumed duties yesterday as the US Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission Director to Sri Lanka and Maldives. US Ambassador Atul Keshap administered the oath of office in the presence of his wife Karen Levine and the entire USAID mission at the Embassy of the United States of America.

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