No power cuts on 11th and 14th August

Liquor bottles to carry sticker of approval

The Government has prepared a programme to paste a sticker in each legally manufactured bottle of liquor?under the supervision of the Department of Excise, and to paste the sticker for imported bottles of liquor before releasing from the customs, Cabinet Spokesperson Dr. Rajitha Senaratne said at the weekly Cabinet briefing held at the Government Information Department today. He said that as the government has imposed a large tax over liquor, illegally bottled liquor seem to enter into the mark

06 Nov, 2015

Threat to Sri Lanka from tropical cyclone Megh

While tropical cyclone Megh is moving away from India, a new tropical concern threatens to cause flooding in southeastern India and Sri Lanka later this weekend and early next week. The AccuWeather Tropical Cyclone Center is keeping a close eye on a developing area of low pressure in the southern Bay of Bengal. The low is expected to track westward toward southeastern India and Sri Lanka this weekend before moving onshore early next week. The combination of warm waters and a lack of strong wi

07 Nov, 2015

Navy files criminal case against 10 Indian fishermen

A Sri Lanka court has slapped criminal cases against 10 of the 19 fishermen from Pudukottai, 27 days after they were arrested at Killinochi, the Press Trust of India reported. S Emirit and P Sesuraja, President and Secretary respectively of Tamil Nadu Coastal Fishermen’s Association, said the navy had charged them for “deliberately” colliding their boat with the Sri Lankan high speed modern patrol boat and damaging it. The Judicial Magistrate Jawahabdeen remanded the fishermen till November 18

06 Nov, 2015