An organized criminal and drug trafficker, Sinharage Chaminda Silva alias ‘Kudu Anju’, has been taken into custody in France, said police spokesman SSP Nihal Talduwa.

Slain journalist Dharmaratnam Sivaram, aka Taraki, is being remembered in the north and the east on his 18th death anniversary.

President Ranil Wickremesinghe has lost faith among a vast majority of SLPP MPs, sources close to the party said.

SLPP MP Namal Rajapaksa was absent at yesterday’s (28) vote on the resolution on the IMF’s extended fund facility.

Fifty-two state entities are estimated to incur losses of up to Rs. 1,100 billion this year, said finance state minister Shehan Semasinghe.

Parliament yesterday (28) passed by majority vote the resolution for the implementation of the arrangement under the extended fund facility of the International Monetary Fund.

An investigation is to be conducted into claims made by senior DIG Ajith Rohana in a letter he has sent to the National Police Commission against his transfer.

During a recent meeting at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo, President Ranil Wickremesinghe emphasized that the government is committed to carrying out its agricultural modernization plan.

The government has placed special emphasis on regulating the poultry and egg industry to ensure uninterrupted supply of poultry and eggs to consumers at a reasonable rate.

Sri Lanka regrets the decision by the US to designate Admiral of the Fleet Wasantha Karannagoda, the present governor of the North Western province.