The ban imposed on full-face motorcycle helmets is a demeaning of the police, says senior lecturer Attanayake M. Herath.

The CID has uncovered information regarding six actresses who have toured overseas along with international drug trafficker Samantha Kumara alias Wele Suda.

Several government ministers from the SLFP last night met former president Chandrika Kumaratunga, the patron of their party, and stressed that both constitutional and electoral reforms should take place simultaneously and that the general election held under a new electoral system.

China has refuted a claim that the estimated cost of the Colombo Outer Circular Road was reduced by Rs. 30 billion.

Two more SLFP MPs who were recently sworn in as ministers have decided to resign from their ministerial portfolios, reports say.