The Right to Information Commission (RTI) concluding a hearing of an appeal made by a ‘Tamil Mirror’ journalist requesting information about the LTTE members surrendered to the army yesterday reserved the judgement pending written submission by both parties.
Singapore Airlines’ Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner landed for the first time at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) yesterday. The 787 entered service in October 2011 with the Japanese carrier All Nippon Airlines. “The aircraft is going to engage in direct flights between BIA and Changi Airport in Singapore from today four days a week,” Aitken Spence Company Managing Director Wasantha Kudaliyanag
President Ranil Wickremesinghe said homosexuality is an offence under the Penal Code, and the government will most probably take action to repeal this provision. President Wickremesinghe said this in response to a question on queer rights during an interview organized by Harvard University on March 24 through Zoom technology.
Two employees from the Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) had died after entering a man hole where they were connectinhg a newly constructed sewerage line at Kotahena yesterday. Police said two of the three persons who were repairing the pipeline met wit
The Urban Development Authority (UDA) is to conduct a feasibility study with a view of revisiting the project undertaken by former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga to relocate the President’s House to Sri Jayewardenepura Kotte, an official said. UDA Director General Prasad Ranaweera told Daily Mirror that a feasibility study will be done shortly to relocate the President’s House
An employee of a massage clinic in a tourist hotel at Habaraduwa was arrested on suspicion of sexually harassing a German woman who called over at the hotel to have a massage. The 65 year old tourist complained to the Habaraduwa police that the suspect had molested her during the massage session. The 45 year old suspect hotel