At the request of the prime minister, the president has decided to extend the tenure of Army commander Lt. Gen. Krishantha de Silva by four months until December, reliable sources say.

CID specialists have so far gone through telephone conversation data amounting to more than 40 million in the course of their investigation into the murder of senior journalists Lasantha Wickramatunga.

A substandard cancer drug imported from China is being administered to children suffering from leukemia at the Maharagama Cancer Hospital.

It is revealed that an illegal construction of a businessman had become a contributing factor of the recent floods in the Kolonnawa area.

The state owned 'Silumina' newspaper recently commemorated senior journalist - Dayasena Gunasinghe, but with disastrous results.

Earlier this week, President Maithripala Sirisena toured the Southern region of the country to attend the funeral of MP Buddhika Pathirana's father and to open the Shangri-La hotel in Hambantota.