Galle Central Special Correspondent

Galle municipal engineer complains against JVP candidate

The Galle Municipal engineer yesterday lodged a complaint against a JVP candidate contesting the Galle Municipal Council.The engineer alleged that the behaved in a manner...
Police have no hidden agendas - IGP

Sri Lanka Police do not have hidden agendas. It has the state agenda to serve dutifully for the public of the country Inspector General of Police Pujitha Jayasindara said in...
Parents protest over school relocation plans

A big gathering of parents, past pupils and well-wishers of Galle All Saints’ College staged a protest against the government’s decision to relocate the school...
Ambalangoda ex-PS Chairman, his sister get six months’ RI for criminal intimidation of journalist

Former Pradeshiya Sabha Chairman Keebiyage Puspalal Kumarasinghe and his sister Keembiyage Lisee Keerthisinghe were sentenced to six months’ rigorous imprisonment with...

Twins equal at Scholarship Exam

Sihali Sithumya and Maheli Nethumya of Galle Olcott Maha Vidyalaya are twins. As proof to their inborn uniqueness since their early childhood, they had displayed similar aptitudes in all their...
Politicians should not denigrate Maha Sangha: President

Politicians should not disparage or blaspheme the most venerable Maha Sangha in making various statements on political, social or religious issues. Politicians should uphold the august dignity and...
Police force to be modernised: PM

The Government will introduce new reforms to the Sri Lanka Police to make it more efficient and productive, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said.“The Sri Lanka Police is administered and...
Enraged man stabs wife and mother-in-law

An enraged employee of the Sri Lanka Transport Board (SLTB) stabbed his mother-in-law and wife and escaped in a three-wheeler taking his wife with him, Galle Police said.The incident had...
Heavy rains in Galle, Colombo, Nuwaraeliya and Ratnapura

Heavy rains lashed several areas of the country yesterday with the worst hit being Galle, Colombo, Nuwaraeliya and Ratnapura districts.Roads were inundated in several areas in Galle and Colombo...
Mayhem at Southern Province meeting, Governor’s directive ignored

The special council meeting convened by the Central Provincial Council to adopt the draft 20th Amendment to the Constitution was held contravening the directives of the Southern Province Governor....
Sexagenarian rapes septuagenarian

Hiniduma police arrested a 62-year-old landed proprietor for allegedly raping a seventy sevenyear old woman living alone at Thawalala in Hiniduma, Galle.In her complaint the woman had told Police...
SPC raises budgetary allocations to speed up post disaster work

The Southern Provincial Council Board of Ministers has decided to increase the councilors’ and ministers’ annual budgetary allocation for 2017 by Rs.5,00,000 to effectively launch urgent...
Present flood is outcome of past politicos’ follies: President

The destruction and sufferings caused by floods and landslides in the country every year could have been permanently stopped by now if we were able to implement a scientific flood prevention project...
Nearly 7000 affected due to heavy rains in Galle

Over 6629 persons of 1735 families in 102 Grama Seva Divisions of 16 Divisional Secretariat areas in Galle district have been displaced owing to the floods caused by the torrential rains that lashed...
Two schoolboys drown on Vesak Day

Two schoolboys who were part of a group of five friends bathing at the estuary of River Gin at Gintota Galle on Vesak Poya Day were drowned Galle police said.The drowned boys were identified as...
Following CA order against Geetha: SPC member to challenge legal validity of entire 2015 candidates list

Southern Provincial Councilor Jayantha Jayaweera told the media that he was going to initiate legal action in the Court of Appeal challenging the legal validity of the entire list of...