Petroleum minister Chandima Weerakkody says his official car, the same one used by Swarna Gunawardena when he held the portfolio, has a mileage of only three kilometres per litre.

More than 50 Meethotamulla residents whose homes have been damaged due to the recent floods, created a scene at a ceremony at the Colombo municipal grounds yesterday (16).

The Customs Services Union is having doubts regarding the ready availability of heroin despite increasing numbers of both addicts as well as raids.

Although the CID had gone to three judges urging them to recall the case which granted bail to magistrate Thilina Gamage, they had all refused to take up the case, reports say.

The Brazil embassy in Colombo will reveal within days the identity of those who had smuggled in cocaine concealed in a sugar consignment from that country, says minister Ravi Karunanayake.