Four killed in accident involving bus and truck

Indians at Welikada ready for transfer

Eleven prisoners from India lodged at the Welikada prison could be just one step away from being transferred to Indian prisons, if the Tamil Nadu government acts swiftly, the Hindu newspaper reported. Until 2010, the prisoners, all from Tamil Nadu, nurtured no hope of meeting their families ever since they were apprehended here and sentenced to life imprisonment for possessing narcotics. As per Sri Lankan law, persons caught with narcotic substances are given a life sentence and convicts usually

02 Jul, 2013

Club raided, 83 arrested

The police raided a club at Dharmapala Mawatha in Colombo 7 last night and arrested 83 people, the police media unit said. The arrest was made on the basis that the club was operating as a betting center without a valid licence. According to the police media unit, the club was raided after a search warrant had been obtained from court. During the raid the police found 80 people engaged in illegal betting at the club and arrested them. The police also arrested three others who were believed to ha

02 Jul, 2013

India happy with Lankan project

India says while the?construction of 1,000 houses for internally displaced persons in the Northern Province of Sri Lanka is complete the second phase of the housing project in the Northern and Eastern Provinces was progressing smoothly. The special secretary of Development Partnership Administration P S Raghavan?who led a high-level Monitoring Committee from Ministry of External Affairs to monitor the reconstruction work in Sri Lanka, said that the second phase of the housing project under the o

01 Jul, 2013