Private tuition classes in Western Province to resume next week

Colombo – Chennai flights cancelled owing to floods

Several flights operating between Colombo and Chennai have been cancelled owing to floods at the Chennai airport. SriLankan Airlines said it has suspended four Chennai bound flights, UL121, UL127, UL123 and UL125 of December 3, in view of the closure of the Chennai International Airport following heavy flooding due to torrential weather conditions in South India. The airline said it will resume flights as soon as the Airport resumes operations and the Airline may operate a few extra flights to

02 Dec, 2015

Prime Minister shows green light for port city

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe today said the country plans to have a ?unique financial and business district? in Colombo when the sea reclamation project by a Chinese firm is resumed. ?Hopefully if the Port City projects get underway, I think there will be some sort of landfill there that could have the makings of a special financial and business district which will be a unique one in South Asia,? Wickremesinghe told a gathering celebrating 30-years of the formal establishment of the Colo

02 Dec, 2015

Over 25 investigations on MR family says Mangala

Over 25 investigations are underway related to former President Mahinda Rajapaksa or his family members, Foreign Minister?Mangala Samaraweera told Parliament today. The Foreign Minister said that Rajapaksa and his family are?also being investigated for money stored in offshore bank accounts. He says the investigations will however take time as there are barricades when attempting to access foreign bank accounts. Samaraweera said that Sri Lanka needs to have discussions with the relevant forei

02 Dec, 2015