SriLankan Airlines to be auctioned next week

Trinco suspects re-remanded

The Trincomalee Magistrate today ordered 12 police Special Task Force (STF) to be re-remanded till August 5th over their alleged involvement in the murder of five students in Trincomalee in 2006. The Magistrate re-remanded them when they were produced in court today by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID). The incident referred to as the Trincomalee massacre, occurred when the five Tamil high school students playing by the beach were briefly detained and then shot dead. The incident drew

18 Jul, 2013

Ramith gets away with fine

The Executive Committee of the Sri Lanka Cricket Board has decided to impose a fine on Sri Lanka ?A? team cricketer Ramith Rambukwella over the mid-air incident on a British airways flight recently. Sri Lanka Cricket said that the Executive Committee has imposed 50% fine of his tour fee while the Chief Executive Officer of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) will also issue a severe warning to him over his behavior. It was alleged that he had attempted to open the door of the plane while it was some 35,000

18 Jul, 2013

Accident kills one, 16 injured

One person was killed and 16 others were injured following an accident in Rajanganaya today, the police media unit said. The police said that a lorry crashed into the rear end of a bus transporting a group of pilgrims along the Anuradhapura – Puttalam road at the Rajanganaya junction. The bus was parked on the side of the road when the lorry crashed into it, the police media unit said. Two people who were in the lorry and 15 people in the bus sustained injuries in the accident and were admitted

18 Jul, 2013