Sunday, 10 Sep 2023
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By Leon Berenger
UN ends operations in mali due to turbulence in the region
The Government will seek more UN peacekeeping operations after its contingent currently based in Mali is expected to pull out owing to the uncertain conditions in the African nation, a senior official of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said yesterday.
He said the Ministry of Defence along with the Foreign Office in Colombo was working towards this end.
He said the Sri...
Overcrowding in country’s jails
A prisoner’s rights activist yesterday called on the authorities to set up a rehabilitation program at the very earliest for drug users and minor offenders since these individuals are choking the country’s jails and warned that the situation could spiral out of control.
Attorney-at-law Senaka Perera with the Committee for Protecting the Rights of Prisoner’s said it was a...
The Defence authorities yesterday ordered a crackdown on those responsible for causing deliberate forest fires adding that fire belts will be set up at the earliest to prevent further infernos, State Minister of Defence, Premitha Bandara Tennakoon said.
The State Minister told officials of the Wild Life and Forest Conservation Departments, Disaster Management Centre and...
At least six persons attempting to leave the country on visit visas were detained by sleuths at the newly opened Safe Migrant Promotion Unit (SMPU) at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) last week, a senior official said yesterday.
“They were held back from boarding their scheduled flight to an Eastern European country after they failed to convince officers of...
A special counter will be set up at the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) from today to screen outgoing Sri Lankan passengers holding visit visas to check human trafficking, the fleeing of known criminals and other irregularities, officials of the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment (SLBFE) and the military said yesterday.
The counter will have personnel from...
By Leon Berenger
These days the mood in the merchant shipping industry is on the decline as news filters from across the globe that more and more...
The authorities are in a dilemma as the number of inmates in the country’s jails keeps increasing daily choking the facilities to...
Defence authorities yesterday expressed concern over intelligence reports of foreigners who are known to have overstayed their...
China and India have donated military hardware to the Government within two weeks that will help the island nation to enhance its...
The defence authorities have been alerted on the arrest of three Sri Lankans in Bangalore who are wanted in connection with at...
At least 39 persons have been killed and another 30 injured in shooting incidents throughout the country from the start of this...
58 seamstresses left the country on August 2:
Russia has begun recruiting skilled Sri Lankan workers following a historic agreement between the two countries, a senior...
At least 27 Sri Lankan workers were injured one critically after their bus plunged down a precipice at Eyüpsultan in Istanbul on...
Nearly one million people from 30,892 families have been affected by the prevailing drought and individuals and organisations...
At least 15 Sri Lankan men were among many thousands detected and over 1,000 persons arrested in an international ‘sting’ anti...
The police along with other State security agencies and the Army have begun a search operation to recover thousands of firearms...
In a move aimed at removing the housemaid concept the relevant authorities are working towards gathering employment in other...
At least 15 passengers were injured after a bus overturned in Demodara yesterday morning, police and hospital officials said....
A group of eight girls had gathered inside the International Labour Orgnisation office at Bauddaloka Mawatha in Colombo 7 earlier...
Nayomi Amarasiri aged 29 is currently sailing the seas across the world as Sri Lanka’s first and only female seafarer to be hired...
The Government has been strongly advised to make efforts in removing a dilapidated foreign cargo vessel currently in anchorage at...
An Indian ship captain and his five-member crew have been stranded in Sri Lanka for the past four years and unable to leave owing...
The authorities have decided to ban Sri Lankan maids from overseas employment from April 1 while promoting job opportunities for...
IndustriALL is the world’s single largest union packing a membership of some 50 million workers in 140 countries including Sri...
IMF bailout for Sri Lanka:
A group of eight powerful international trade unions packing a membership of some 25 million workers throughout the world...
Two top trade unionists yesterday urged a global organisation to persuade the IMF to release the US$ 2.9 billion sought by the...
Killing of Dinesh Schaffter
At least 23 persons have been questioned in connection with the murder of billionaire businessman Dinesh Schaffter as police...
The eight Sri Lankan seafarers taken in for questioning by the Nigerian authorities for unexplained reasons are being detained on...
A top maritime trade union yesterday reached out to international agencies to seek the release of eight Sri Lankan seafarers...
Last week’s detection of over 300 Sri Lankans on a Myanmar-flagged vessel in the South China Sea has given rise to suspicion that...
Package was reached after talks with stakeholders – DG/MS
A leading maritime trade union and the industry yesterday warned that the sector was heading for a catastrophe if plans to levy a...
Inclement weather:
At least two people were killed, three reported missing and more than 125,000 affected as inclement weather swept through several...
An assortment of suspected narcotic related material including a Cannabis plant was seized from the Galle Face protest during a...
Three people were shot dead and another injured in an equal number of separate daylight incidents that took place in the...
Sri Lankan multi-day fishing trawler operators yesterday expressed fears that their boats would be taken by the Indian...
Five Sri Lankan fishermen were rescued and another missing and feared dead after their vessel tilted and took in water in choppy...
A foreign vessel with 250 kilograms of heroin was busted by the Navy, 900 nautical miles off the country’s Southern coast...
Death of domestic aide in Malaysia
The authorities have launched a probe into the death of a Sri Lankan female domestic aide who had died under questionable...
At least nine foreign nationals were rounded up on the high seas along with a multi-day fishing vessel alleged to have...
The police were yesterday investigating the true circumstances of a young woman who vanished inside a forest in Nuwara Eliya and...
Veteran actress Hyacinth Wijeratne was killed when the vehicle in which she was travelling plunged down a steep precipice at...
Ill-fated vessel left Colombo Port on Wednesday
Another major maritime disaster slipped past Sri Lanka on Friday after a foreign-owned container vessel was caught up in a major...
NUSS urges vaccination priority:
A Sri Lankan seafarer has died due to the Covid-19 pandemic which is the first reported death among seafarers and this has...
An Air Force officer died on the spot after his parachute got entangled with another parachutist during a training session at...
Quarantine for Lankan Seafarers
An international maritime trade union yesterday appealed to the Government to have a re-think on the mandatory quarantine for Sri...
Nearly 1,000 kilograms of drugs seized
At least 61,550 people were arrested for narcotic related offences last year, a senior most police official said.He added that...
It was late July in 2018 when many parents were readying their children for the much awaited Year-Five Scholarship Exam that was...
Talks on fate of long-term inmates
The authorities have released 12,339 prisoners since December 1 last year aimed at reducing congestion in the country’s jails, a...