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  • 20th Amendment draft not taken up
    The draft of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution was not taken up at the Sabaragamuwa Provincial Council as scheduled yesterday on the instruction of President Maithripala Sirisena and Governor...
  • Provincial Council elections cannot be postponed - Deshapriya
     Elections Commission Chairman Mahinda Deshapriya said when the official term of a provincial council ends; the date of election to appoint new members must be announced by the Commission within...
  • Forty eight schools damaged in Sabaragamuwa floods
    The recent heavy rain and floods had caused damage to 48 schools in the Sabaragamuwa Province. The damage caused amounted to nearly Rs. 350 million, according to a rough estimate, said Provincial...
  • Former President speaking to the journalists
    Lasantha, Noyahr controversies:MR refutes allegations
    Kurunegala District Parliamentarian and former President Mahinda Rajapaksa said he had no connection whatsoever to the killing of editor Lasantha Wickrematunge or the abduction of journalist Keith...
  • Forest officer narrowly escapes death
    A Forest Conservation Officer who visited a house near the Karamatutiya reserve in Kaltota along with another department colleague to investigate an illicit tree felling racket had a narrow escape...
  • Six-month suspended RI, fine for indecent behaviour
    A suspect found guilty of indecent behaviour under the influence of alchol at the Ratnapura bus stand and abusing police officers who admonished him was fined R. 4,000 and sentenced to six months RI...
  • Falling jak branch kills nine-year-old girl
    A nine-year-old girl playing on the road by her residence in Opanaike was injured when a jak branch fell on her on February 25. She later succumbed to her injuries while being transferred to the...
  • Ninja robber gang haunts Kuruwita
    A Ninja type robber gang engaged in midnight robberies have posed a serious threat to the lives of residents in Kuruwita, the Kuruwita police said.Members of this gang with masks fully covering their...
  • One dies, another injured in motorcycle collision
    A person died and another was critically injured and admitted to the Kahawatte hospital following a collision of two motor cycles near the estate bungalow at Willambiya, Kahawatta on December 28. The...
  • Man nabbed purchasing goods with fake note
    A suspect who tendered a counterfeit Rs. 1,000 note depicting the picture of the former President Mahinda Rajapaksa to a shop owner in Ratnapura town to purchase some goods was caught and handed over...
  • Septuagenarian dies, two injured in collision
    A 76-year-old woman died and two others were injured and admitted to the Ratnapura hospital when a private bus from Embilipitya to Ratnapura collided with a motorcycle they were riding on the...