(UTV|COLOMBO) – During a search conducted by the Navy and STF in the Siribopura area, Hambantota, two drug traffickers were arrested with crystal methamphetamine, also known as ice, and hashish. Naval personnel attached to the Southern Naval Command, during a raid conducted yesterday (28) with the officers of Panwewa STF camp apprehended these suspects with 8…
(UTV|COLOMBO) – A three-wheeler had suddenly burst into flames while travelling towards Badulla at Badulla-Medithale area, UTV News learns. The fire had been extinguished with the combined efforts of the officials of the fire brigade, the police and the residents of the area. No one has been reported as injured from the fire and the damages…
(UTV|COLOMBO) – Three individuals have died after a lorry and bus collided head on in Medawachchiya last night. Police said a lorry bound to Dambulla had rammed on to a bus plying to Jaffna at around 1150 last night. Three persons travelling in the bus had succumbed to injuries. Three children and two adults injured in…
(UTV|COLOMBO) – An employee of the Wellampitiya Copper Factory, named as the 10th suspect in the case linked to the Easter Sunday attacks, is scheduled to be produced before Court once again today. Colombo Additional Magistrate Priyantha Liyanage ordered the suspect to be remanded till today when the case was taken up for hearing on the 15th of…
(UTV|COLOMBO) – Sri Lanka star Table Tennis Paralympian, Pitiyage Don Silva Deshapriya won a bronze medal at the Asia Para TT Championship 2019 held in Taichung, Chinese Taipei. In the semi-finals, Deshapriya lost 3-2 to world number 4 seed, Koyo Iwabuchi of Japan. In the earlier matches, Deshapriya won 3-0 against Indonesia, lost 0-3 to Japan,…
(UTV|COLOMBO) – Actor Austin Butler, who would be seen riding horses in forthcoming movie ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’, seems all excited about horses and cowboy boots. For the actor riding horses reminded him of his grandfather, who was a cowboy himself! In an interview with People, the actor shared her experiences while filming the…
(UTV|COLOMBO) – Austria has issued an arrest warrant for a Russian military officer it says recruited a colonel who allegedly spent 30 years spying for Moscow. Police in Salzburg said European and international warrants had been issued for the officer, named by officials as 65-year-old Igor Egorovich Zaytsev. He is suspected of having been the colonel’s…
(UTV|COLOMBO) – After an Indian woman, in her habeas corpus petition filed before the Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court on Tuesday, claimed that her long-missing father was identified among vagabonds in Sri Lanka through a YouTube video, the court-ordered notice to the Centre and State. A Division Bench of Justices M. Sathyanarayanan and B….
(UTV|COLOMBO) – The Enterprise Sri Lanka Exhibition organized by the Ministry of Finance will be held today (24th) in Anuradhapura at the Walisinghe Harischandra grounds. The Exhibition will get underway following the Opening Ceremony that will be held under the patronage of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. The exhibition will be a platform for entrepreneurs to obtain…
(UTV|COLOMBO) – Issuing National Consumer Price Index (NCPI), for the month of June 2019, Director General of Census and Statistics said that headline inflation as measured by the Year on Year change (The percentage change in the current month NCPI over same month NCPI of last year) based on NCPI has been compiled as 2.1%. The…
