Over 150 vehicles seized during curfew

USAF medical team to examine injected ex-LTTE combatants

The Chief Minister of the?Northern Province, C V Wigneswaran, has said that US Air Force?s medical team, currently in the province on a goodwill visit, will examine former LTTE?combatants who had fallen sick allegedly because they were injected with poisonous substances by the Sri Lankan armed forces when they were undergoing detention or rehabilitation after surrender, the New Indian Express reported. In the past few weeks, Tamil politicians and the media have been highlighting the death of 10

17 Aug, 2016

CSN insists funds seized does not belong to CSN

Carlton Sports Network (CSN) has denied reports that funds seized by the Government last week belongs to CSN. CSN Director Rohan Welivita said that it was widely reported in the media that a sum of Rs. 157.5 million belonging to the CSN Channel had been confiscated by the Government. However he says the money said to have been confiscated does not belong to CSN nor does that money belong to any directors or shareholders of CSN from its inception to the present. “I was made to understand by of

18 Aug, 2016

Only ‘G’ graded power sockets will be approved in future

Cabinet has approved a proposal to allow only ‘G’ graded?plugs and socket outlets to be sold in Sri Lanka. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has told the cabinet that the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka should take action to protect the public from possible accidents which occur from generation, transmission, distribution and supply or the use of electricity according to the Sri Lanka Electricity Act No. 20 of 2009. He said in a cabinet paper that deaths which occurred in 2012 due t

17 Aug, 2016