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CEB employee arrested over links to ICE drug suspect

Sri Lanka, Sept. 22 -- A Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) employee has been taken into custody by the Police Narcotics Bureau (PNB) for allegedly providing accommodation to a key suspect in a major drug... Read More


Quack arrested after 20 years of posing as medic

Sri Lanka, Sept. 22 -- A 54-year-old man who had allegedly been posing as a doctor for nearly two decades was arrested in Egoda Uyana last evening (21). The suspect, a resident of Delduwa, Wadduwa, h... Read More


Bodies lead police to recover another 200kgs of ice in Tangalle

Sri Lanka, Sept. 22 -- Police have recovered another stock of suspected Crystal methamphetamine, commonly known as Ice, weighing over 200 kilograms from a lorry parked at the same premises in Seenimod... Read More


Jacqueline's plea dismissed: SC refuses to intervene in Rs 200 crore money laundering case

Sri Lanka, Sept. 22 -- Jacqueline Fernandez has suffered a legal setback after the Supreme Court refused to interfere in a case involving alleged money laundering. Fernandez had approached the apex ... Read More


Hotel owned by former Governor's wife ordered to be demolished

Sri Lanka, Sept. 22 -- A hotel owned by Ms. Ajantha Rupasari Herath, wife of former North Central Province Governor Maheepala Herath, has been ordered to be demolished after it was found to be illegal... Read More


SLTB to recruit women with air hostess-level uniforms

Sri Lanka, Sept. 21 -- Colombo, Sept. 21 (Daily Mirror) - Women will soon join the Sri Lanka Transport Board (SLTB) as drivers and conductors, dressed in newly designed uniforms at air hostess level, ... Read More


Wasp attack injures 13 in Kotiyagala

Sri Lanka, Sept. 21 -- Colombo, Sept. 21 (Daily Mirror) - Thirteen plantation workers, including twelve women and one man, were hospitalised following a wasp attack at the Kotiyagala Tea Estate in Bog... Read More


President Dissanayake to leave for USA tomorrow

Sri Lanka, Sept. 21 -- Colombo, Sep 21 (Daily Mirror) - resident Anura Kumara Dissanayake is scheduled to depart for the United States tomorrow (22) night to participate in the 80th session of the Uni... Read More


Karandeniya Pradeshiya Sabha Chairman passes away at 47

Sri Lanka, Sept. 21 -- Colombo, Sep.21 (Daily Mirror) - Mahil Munasinghe, Chairman of the Karandeniya Pradeshiya Sabha, passed away today (21) following a sudden illness. He reportedly fell ill this m... Read More


Committee reveals misuse of Rs. 8 billion at Central Cultural Fund

Sri Lanka, Sept. 21 -- Colombo, Sep.21 (Daily Mirror) - Over Rs. 8 billion has reportedly been misused without the approval of the Board of Governors of the Central Cultural Fund (CCF), according to D... Read More