Grama Niladari Divisions of the country have been categorised according to their levels of poverty. The Department of Census and Statistics has compiled a report depicting these levels of poverty. The report was presented to Prime Minister Rathnasiri Wickremanayake at ...

 The new green apparel factory at Agalawatte set up by Ceylon Knit Trend (CKT) Pvt. Ltd. a fully owned subsidiary of Hirdaramani Group will start operations within the next few months. The new USD 6 million facility named Mihila will ...

 A group of Sri Lankan students of the Sichuan Medical University are safe and have been evacuated from the earthquake hit province in China, the Foreign Ministry said.

  The swearing-in ceremony of the new Chief Minister for the eastern province scheduled to take place tomorrow before President Mahinda Rajapaksa has been postponed, the Presidential Secretariat said.According to the government sources there is yet no consensus reached in ...

 Commander of the Army, Lieutenant General Sarath Fonseka in an attempt to take an overall stock of the latest ground situation flew to Jaffna this morning, May 15, with several senior military officers of the Army Headquarters. Commander, Security Forces ...

 Sri Lanka Army soldiers yesterday (May 14) found five bodies of female LTTE cadres along with 5 T-56 rifles, after hours long clashes occurred in the Periyamadhu area on the Vavuniya warfront. According to the defence sources in the front, ...

Eastern Province  Chief Minister to be named tommorrow.This was stated by the Minister of media Anura Priyadarshana Yapa  at the weekly cabinet press briefing held at the Department of Information this evening. However rumours are spreading about appointing of the ...

Kuwait : Customs officials at Kuwait International Airport foiled a Sri Lankan boy’s attempt to smuggle 10,000 narcotic pills into the country. Security sources say the contraband was hidden inside his hand language. The drug pusher, who was ...

Prorogation is no doubt hampering the parliamentary business but nobody could blame President Mahinda Rajapaksa for the present prorogation as it is a prerogative vested with the Head of State by the Constitution, Constitutional Affairs and National Integration Minister D.E.W.Gunasekara ...

        'Lanka Dissent'    The newly-formed National Freedom Front has reportedly misled officials and fraudulently booked the Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies as the venue for its inauguration.The date had been booked by the Manel Mal Movement, purportedly ...

                   Elections Commissioner Dayananda Dissanayake has been asked not to allow the use of 'a crown' as the symbol of a political party. 'The National Movement for the Protection of Sri Lankan Heritages' has made the request ...

(Lanka-e-News, ) Shashi, the spouse of MP Wimal Weerawansa is a frequent focus of media criticism. However, Lanka-e-news never posted news on personal affairs of any person since it was our policy.However we publish this story pertaining to the inappropriate ...