Category: LOCAL

(COLOMBO, LANKAPUVATH) –Three Sri Lankans have been arrested while transporting 24 kilograms of gold valued at Rs 170 million, in a boat in the sea area North of Talaimannar, Sri Lanka Navy said.

(COLOMBO, LANKAPUVATH) –Newly appointed five envoys presented credentials to President Maithripala Sirisena at the Presidential Secretariat, yesterday (11th).New ambassadors and high commissioners represent Morocco, United Arab Emirates, Poland, Austria, and Tanzania.

(COLOMBO, LANKAPUVATH) –In a special ceremony held today at Nonagama Cultural Centre in Ambalantota in Hambantota District, Hon. Mahinda Amaraweera, Minister of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Development, and H.E. Taranjit Singh Sandhu, High Commissioner of India, jointly launched a project to provide livelihood support to nearly 70,000 people from the farming and fishing communities in Hambantota District.

(COLOMBO, LANKAPUVATH) –The charred bodies of a father aged-36, his 13-year-old daughter and his 5-year-old son were found from a house in Menikhinna, Kandy on Tuesday (10).

(COLOMBO, LANKAPUVATH) –The 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami claimed the lives of more than thirty-five thousand Sri Lankans and affected more than one million people across the island. It damaged a total of 183 schools, 18 vocational and industrial training institutes and 4 universities, affecting the studies of nearly 100,000 students across fourteen Coastal Districts.

(COLOMBO, LANKAPUVATH) –The Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development recognizes the important role of youth in achieving the agenda, and calls for action against the challenges faced by young people.

(COLOMBO, LANKAPUVATH) –The Terrorist Investigation Division (TID) probing into the recent incidents that had taken place in several parts of the Kandy district, yesterday arrested two more suspects in connection with the arson attack on several religious places of worship and business places in Ambatenna in the Pujapitiya Police Division.