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The victim was a resident of Weeraketiya, Hambantota.
Police was unable to confirm if the incident was motivated by economic woes.
Violent clashes across the country started after Rajapaksa supporters unleashed violence against unarmed protesters
Protesters and police trade charges of instigating violence first
Sri Lanka customs does not impose a penalty on the confiscated counterfeit goods
Sri Lanka has enacted 55 laws since it declared bankruptcy
The Main opposition Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB) today Sept 8 launched a protest movement to safeguard the democratic pr...
Parliament descended into a raucous shouting pit this afternoon after the Opposition came to the House clad in Black sha...
Opposition activist, Attorney at Law Harshana Nanayakkara is saying that the 20th Amendment to the Constitution if enact...
The Court of Appeal has issued an interim order permitting convicted murderer Premalal Jayasekara to attend Parliamentar...
Pasindu Hirushan Silva, the Sri Jayewardenepura student who was seriously injured when a tyre fell on him, has gone to c...
Media watchdog organisations are expressing the hope that the arrest of the Editor of the lankanewsweb.org website, will...
A student of the Shri Jayewardenepura University who was seriously injured in a recent ragging incident is asking the Su...
The Chilaw courts have ordered the Department of Wildlife Conservation to investigate, identify and charge those involve...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has nominated Mahindananda Aluthgamage as his nominee to the Constitutional Council (CC), t...
There is a concept of inclusive nationalism, in which everyone born within the boundaries of the country (regardless of ...
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The dispute as to who should be nominated to the single National List seat won by the Buddhist Monks-led Our People’s ...
The main Opposition Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB) is warning that the government’s desire to abolish the 19th Amendment...
Some Universities in Sri Lanka opened this morning and new university entrants walked into campus taking their first ste...
Many of the Parliamentarians who fought like street thugs in front of live TV cameras are back in the House and are join...
Newly minted Justice Minister Mohamed Ali Sabry is promising major reforms in the Courts system because he has seen the ...
The Centre for Environment and Nature Studies (CENS) in Sri Lanka, is protesting against the construction of a road in t...
Ultra Right-Wing Buddhist Monk Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thero will be nominated to be in Parliament by a small party ca...
The first six hours of the poll has seen a total of 161 violations of the Election Laws the Centre for Monitoring Electi...
Several people caught trying to buy polling cards from voters in Beruwela are supporters of Samagi Jana Balawegaya Kalut...
Sri Lanka’s Chairperson of the Human Rights Commission, internationally renowned Human Rights Defender Dr Deepika Udag...
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