Female doctor arrested over accident further remanded

SLFP warns President on LG bodies

The Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) today warned President Maithripala Sirisena saying it will go to the next level if he fails to hold elections for the Local Government (LG) bodies whose terms have now ended. SLFP spokesman and former Minister Dilan Perera said that while the President had decided to appoint special commissioners to the LG bodies, the SLFP wants elections to be held. The term of LG bodies ended on May 15 and?President Maithripala Sirisena announced that instead of holding ele

17 May, 2015

Opposition slams Ranil over judiciary

The opposition today accused?Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe?of degrading the judiciary by questioning the order given on former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa. Opposition leader and Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) member Nimal Siripala de Silva said that while President Maithripala Sirisena had accepted the ruling, the Prime Minister was attempting to challenge it. A two member bench of the Supreme Court had ordered the police not to arrest the?former Defence Secretary until a case f

18 May, 2015

Court extends ban on helmet ban

The Appeal Court today extended the interim order on the ban on full-face helmets till July 2. The order was given when the petition filed against the ban imposed by the police was taken up for hearing today.

18 May, 2015