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Ramanayake signed the documents seeking a presidential pardon in May, according to the MP.
The decision came just a day after health authorities announced the detection of the highly transmissible Delta strain
Seven districts have been affected by heavy floods and landslides
Shares had seen a broad base pick up after assurances from India and China over the ending of the week.
“I can tell this assembly that the talks are successful,” President Wickremesinghe told parliament.
A special envoy of Pope Francis, Fernando Cardinal Filio is in the country and visited the bombed-out St Anthony’s Cat...
President Maithripala Sirisena has issued a Gazette Extraordinary extending the State of Emergency in Sri Lanka for one ...
Police are charging 22 persons under the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights Act for the racial riots...
The DNA test report compiled by the Government Analyst’s Department has confirmed the identities of all the suicide bo...
The country will invest Rs 40 billion to bring in an integrated system to ensure Sri Lankan will not have ways to obtain...
Imported big onions will cost more from tomorrow as the Government is set to impose increased taxes.
Kochchikade police yesterday (20) discovered 1,475 SIM cards hidden in a sack and kept near a wooded area in Ma Oya in N...
Six persons allegedly connected to the Easter Sunday attacks were arrested by the police over the past two weeks from th...
Army Commander Lt. Gen. Mahesh Senanayake yesterday (20) requested all parents to send their children to school starting...
President Maithripala Sirisena is saying that Sri Lanka’s Security Forces are capable of dealing with the new threat o...
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Minister of Highways & Road Development Kabirh Hashim has made a formal request for increased security in Mawanaella, hi...
Army Commander Lt. Gen. Mahesh Senanayake said yesterday (16) that the soldier who was seen in CCTV footage seemingly as...
The Police Spokesman Ruwan Gunesekara says that the police are ensuring the maximum security of the public during the Ve...
RepublicNext has got a list of must-know info about holidays and closures in this Vesak Season for your convenience.
A collective of Muslim political and civil society representatives today called for introspection and self-evaluation wi...
Amnesty International is urging Sri Lanka to provide adequate security to the refugees and asylum seekers who became hom...
The 10th anniversary of the official end to the 30- year separatist war will be commemorated on Sunday (19), the governm...
A man wanted in connection with the Easter Sunday is in police custody after he was located in New Kaththankudy yesterd...
Up to 97 per cent of the suspects linked to the terror group that carried out the Easter Sunday bombings have been taken...
The International Commission of Jurists urges Sri Lanka to conduct independent and impartial investigations to bring all...
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