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Public Utilities commission Chairman Janaka Rathnayake says the commission has declined to approve a request by Ceylon Electricity Board for longer power cuts starting from Thursday. “PUCSL declined to approve CEB's request for longer power cuts (2 hours & 20...

Missing Peradeniya University student who went missing last week has been discovered dead. The 24-year-old boy's body was reportedly discovered in Kandy on the banks of the Mahaweli River. The deceased was a Yakkala native and a fourth-year student at...

Bread for all initiative was successfully launched in Dubai. News reports indicate Sheik Mohamed has taken steps to install free bread-wending machines in Dubai for the underprivileged families across Dubai. Sheik Mohamed believes ' no one need to go in...

Food Inflation increases to 84.6% in August 2022 from 82.5% in July 2022, reported the National Consumer Price Index on Wednesday (21). The overall rate of inflation measured by NCPI on a year-on-year basis is 70.2% in August 2022, and...

President Ranil Wickremesinghe met with Commonwealth Secretary General Patricia Scotland yesterday (20), who was in London for Queen Elizabeth II's burial. The Commonwealth Secretariat and Sri Lanka discussed mutual cooperation extensively. On the 18th, President Ranil Wickramasinghe also attended a...

Mr. Dullas Alahapperuma and other Freedom National Assembly MPs staged a press conference this morning at Parliament Stadium, protesting the fact that they would not be allowed to speak in Parliament. Mr. G. L. Peiris, the group's Member of Parliament,...

In a social survey conducted in the Suriyawewa Health Division, it was revealed that 80% of the children suffered from malnutrition, said Dr. G.G. Chamal Sanjeewa, President of the Union of Doctors for Medical and Civil Rights. Our social survey...

The eight who took over the ministry kicked out the SLFP. a party spokesperson said The Sri Lanka Freedom Party has decided to suspend all the positions held by those party members who acted against the party's opinion. Accordingly, all...

A member of Samagi Jana Balawega, Mr. Vijith Wijitamuni Soysa, had a heated exchange of words with a journalist during a press conference held recently. That was with the journalist continuously asking Mr. Wijitamuni Soysa questions.

Welikanda Police say that the body of a detainee who was being rehabilitated at Polonnaruwa Welikanda Kandakadu Rehabilitation Camp was found in a deserted dormitory there. He is a 27-year-old married resident of Padukka, Welikanda Police Station Commander Inspector Samantha...