An employee who fails to report to work without an acceptable excuse for a reasonable period of time would necessarily be a ground which justifies the employer to consider the employee as having vacated service, the Supreme Court held...
Death of Dinesh Shafter: A panel of experts to conduct the postmortem is to be appointed next week.
Colombo Additional Magistrate Rajindra Jayasuriya informed today that a five-member panel of medical experts is to be appointed next week to perform...
A Sri Lankan maid, 40, working in Singapore, had jumped off the 8th floor of a housing complex.
The victim, a resident of Dankotuwa, had reportedly informed her friends that she was facing various harassments at the hands of the...
Popular English teacher Sakvithi Ranasinghe, who pleaded guilty to operating a financial institution without the approval of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, was today sentenced to 22 years of rigorous imprisonment suspended for five years by the Colombo...
In a draft report based on the special inquiry into the T20 World 2022 tournament played in Australia from October 9 to November 13, the Auditor General said that Sri Lanka Cricket chairman Shammi Silva spent more than Rs...
SriLankan Airlines is in the process of restructuring its fleet. The ailing airline is set to lose close to a quarter of its fleet to retirements and lease expirations in the next two years. Among these are three Airbus A320-200 models.
The airline,...
The Sri Lanka Army today deployed more than 600 personnel for flood relief activities in the Matara district, the Defence Ministry said.
The Ministry said that there was a risk of breaking the stone embankment that was built under the...
The Court of Appeal today issued notices to the former Chairman and former members of the Presidential Commission on Political Victimisation to appear in Court on September 11 regarding a contempt of court application.
The Court of Appeal's two-judge bench,...
The money laundering case filed against three accused, including alleged drug dealer Gampola Vidanage Samantha Kumara alias Wele Suda and his wife, was today fixed for trial by the Colombo High Court.
High Court Judge Adithya Patabendige issued summonses to...
The Ceylon Electricity Board says that gross power generation from thermal power plants has increased to 65%, while hydropower generation capacity is below 15 per cent due to the dry spell in the country.
CEB says that the water capacity...
The Minister of Health today gave an undertaking to the Court of Appeal to bring comprehensive regulation to control Mycotoxins (Aflatoxin is one type of Mycotoxin) in all types of food items, considering the specific levels for each food...
A number of technical issues have forced the Sri Lankan airlines to cancel a number of flights over the past few days.
The airline said every effort was made to accommodate passengers on alternative flights to avert inconvenience.
SriLankan Airlines said...
