Suspect and Police exchange gunfire in Athurugiriya

Weeratunga accuses Government of misusing state authority

Sri Lanka?s former Ambassador to Russia Udayanga Weeratunga today accused the Government of misusing state authority when dealing with matters related to him. Weeratunga, who is being investigated over illegal deals of the former Government, said that a container of his which was confiscated by the authorities was sold last month through an auction. He says the container was auctioned without his consent or without informing him. Weeratunga said that he had made an appeal to President Maithri

13 Oct, 2016

Ravi to file complaint with CID over fake FB, Twitter account

Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake is to file a complaint with the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) over a fake Facebook and Twitter account. Karunanayake says it has been brought to his notice that a fake Facebook?account accompanied by an interconnected Twitter account is being carried out under his name. The fake account,?@RavikOfficial is being promoted as the official Facebook and the Twitter Account of the Minister. The Minister says he has no connections whatsoever with these t

13 Oct, 2016

GSP plus talks to commence in Brussels next week

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said that he will be traveling to Brussels shortly for the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) plus negotiations, Lanka Business Online reported. ?I am traveling to Brussels on Saturday to begin talks on restoring GSP plus,? Wickrememsinghe said at the inauguration of the World Export Development Forum in Colombo, Wednesday. ?Sri Lanka and Bangladesh were given GSP plus around the same time but we gave it up. Bangladesh kept it and experienced fast expor

12 Oct, 2016