Pharmacies instructed not to issue medicines without prescriptions

UPFA WPC member Upali Kodikara given bail

United People?s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) Western Provincial Council (WPC) member Upali Kodikara was released on bail today. He was arrested on Monday for obstructing police duty.?He was produced before a Magistrate and remanded till today. Kodikara was seen on television pushing a police officer who had attempted to prevent him from getting into a lift at the Presidential commission on serious fraud at the BMICH last week. The WPC member was following former President Mahinda Rajapaksa inside

22 Oct, 2015

Two killed and 30 injured in accident

Two people were killed and 30 others were injured in a road accident along the Puttalam – Anuradhapura road this morning. The police said that the accident involved a passenger bus and a tipper-truck.

23 Oct, 2015

Hussein tells UNGA, report on Lanka historic

The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra?ad Al Hussein told the?United Nations General Assembly that?his report on Sri Lanka was “historic”. He made the comments on Sri Lanka after presenting the?annual report of his?Office for August 2014 to July 2015?to?the Third Committee at?the 70th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. “In recent weeks my office issued a historic report on reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka, following a

22 Oct, 2015