Chilaw Urban Council Chairman granted bail

Yohani to be recognised with State award

By Easwaran Rutnam (@easwaranrutnam) Sri Lankan singer Yohani De Silva is to be recognised for her recent achievement with a State award, Parliament was informed today. State Minister of National Heritage, Performing Arts and Rural Arts Promotion Vidura Wickramanayaka told Parliament today that Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has taken steps to recognise Yohani with the State award. Responding to a question raised in Parliament today, Vidura Wickramanayaka said that steps will be taken to re

04 Oct, 2021

Aluthgamage no-balls outcome of match fixing probe

By Easwaran Rutnam Former Sports Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage today refused to accept the outcome of a match fixing probe conducted following claims made by him. Aluthgamage told Parliament today that the probe was taken in the wrong direction and officials who should have been questioned were not. The former Sports Minister said that even when he said cricketers were not involved in match-fixing they were summoned and questioned. Aluthgamage had claimed last year that the 2011 World Cu

05 Oct, 2021

WhatsApp, Facebook, Instagram restored after global outage

WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram have been restored after a global outage last night. Users in Sri Lanka were among millions of others around the world affected by the outage. Facebook said that the cause was a faulty configuration change. All three services are owned by Facebook and could not be accessed over the web or on smartphone apps. Downdetector, which tracks outages, said it was the largest failure it had ever seen, with 10.6 million problem reports around the world. The services w

05 Oct, 2021