The Election Commission has issued a gazette notification appointing district returning officers and assistant returning officers for the local government elections.
More than 50 sports clubs are planning to seek redress in the Supreme Court against the new regulations introduced for local sports governing bodies.
The CID has been ordered by court to report progress in the investigation into the killing of businessman Dinesh Schaffter.
Power minister Kanchana Wijesekara has dismissed a warning by CEB engineers to consumers to expect up to 10 hours of power cuts next month.
The new regulations introduced by the sports minister will prevent a number of deep-rooted officials from contesting for office in sports associations.
The CID has found that a text message from Dinesh Schaffter’s mobile phone was sent to Brian Thomas’s phone from the Borella cemetery, after Schaffter became a victim of the killer.
Relatives and friends have remembered eight Tamil civilians murdered at Mirusuvil in Jaffna 22 years ago.
A Sri Lankan bank has opened a vostro account with State Bank of India to conduct bilateral trade in the Indian rupee, Indian High Commission in Colombo said.
CID officers investigating the murder of Janashakthi Company director Dinesh Schaffter suspect that a close associate of the deceased may be involved in his murder.
The Vavuniya high court has ordered the Army to produce an LTTE member who had surrendered at the end of the war, in court by next year.
