News Room : Outsiders occupying MPs’ Madiwala quarters; Speaker orders probe
Security guards, defeated lawmakers among them By Saman indarajith Acting on complaints that some persons are unlawfully occupying many of the MPs’ quarters at Madiwela, Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena has ordered a special probe. He has called for a report urgently.It has been alleged that some of the MPs houses, numbering 120, are occupied by outsiders, including security guards. Besides, there are...
News Room : Minister shines light on tycoons’ liquor racket
Unauthorised spirit production up by 300% ‘Local brew producers cheated even the British’ A century-old practice of tax evasion by liquor producers had reached a new level in recent months, State Finance Minister Ranjith Siyambalapitiya said on Friday.Addressing the Annual General Meeting of the Sri Lanka Excise Officers’ Association, in Colombo, the Minister said the production of unlicensed liquor had increased...
News Room : Sri Lanka rue dropped catch – The Island
Mosaddek Hossain held his nerve, twice in the space of one legal delivery in a chaotic finish, for Bangladesh to earn a three-run win against Zimbabwe, whose semi-final hopes have now been dented.Zimbabwe needed 16 from the final over, and after Mosaddek got rid of Brad Evans, Richard Ngarava got a leg-bye four and slammed a huge six over fine-leg to give...
News Room : three Lankans arrested – The Island
151 people including 19 foreigners killed (Korea Herald/ANN) Relatives search for missing family members following a crowd crush in Seoul’s Itaewon that killed 151 people, including 19 foreigners.South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol has declared a period of national mourning following a deadly Halloween crush in the country’s capital, Seoul, as distraught relatives flocked to the city’s hospitals searching for their missing family...
News Room : India developing world’s most advanced affordable Artificial Heart – The Island
151 people including 19 foreigners killed (Korea Herald/ANN) Relatives search for missing family members following a crowd crush in Seoul’s Itaewon that killed 151 people, including 19 foreigners.South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol has declared a period of national mourning following a deadly Halloween crush in the country’s capital, Seoul, as distraught relatives flocked to the city’s hospitals searching for their missing family...
News Room : Child injured in accidental discharge of police firearm: SI remanded
By Norman Palihawadane Thihagoda Police Sub-Inspector, arrested in connection with an accidental discharge of a police firearm, and causing injury to a 15-year-old boy, in Thihagoda, Matara, has been remanded until 02 Nov. Matara Chief Magistrate, Isuru Nethikumara, ordered the suspected sub-inspector to be remanded when the latter was produced before him on Saturday afternoon. The 57-year-old Sub Inspector admitted in...
News Room : PSC a ruse to postpone polls – Sumanthiran
TNA Jaffna District MP M. A. Sumanthiran says the proposal calling for the appointment of a select committee on amending the electoral system is another attempt to delay elections.The TNA MP said that the Minister of Justice had written to the Speaker, requesting the appointment of yet another Parliamentary Select Committee, although a previous Parliamentary Select Committee had submitted...
News Room : COPF asks govt. why it shared IMF pact with other committees – The Island
151 people including 19 foreigners killed (Korea Herald/ANN) Relatives search for missing family members following a crowd crush in Seoul’s Itaewon that killed 151 people, including 19 foreigners.South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol has declared a period of national mourning following a deadly Halloween crush in the country’s capital, Seoul, as distraught relatives flocked to the city’s hospitals searching for their missing family...
News Room : Academics rise to challenge with sustainable solutions – The Island
Sri Lanka’s worst post-war economic crisis represents a major blow to the country’s progress towards achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), efforts that were already hobbled by the COVID pandemic. However, the situation is also providing impetus to the work of academics that are using their knowledge to tackle the immediate fallout from the crisis, in addition...
News Room : One Sri Lankan youth confirmed dead in Korean Halloween stampede
A 27-year-old Sri Lankan is confirmed to have died in the Halloween event stampede in South Korea. The victim is a resident of Kandy and had been living in South Korea under a G-1 visa. At least 19 foreigners were confirmed killed including US citizens. A mass of mostly young people celebrating Halloween in Seoul became trapped and crushed as...