President Gotabaya Rajapaksa commended the SriLankan Airlines crew who flew to Wuhan, the epicenter of coronavirus to bring back Sri Lankan students.

Sri Lanka marks 72 years of independence today. During the past few years, the independence that we won on the February 4, 1948 faced unprecedented challenges.

United National Party (UNP) MP Ranjith Madduma Bandara named as the General Secretary of the UNP-led alliance, Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa said.

The Attorney General Dappula De Livera has directed the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) to obtain a warrant and arrest the former CEO of SriLankan Airlines Kapila Chandrasena and his wife Priyanka Niyomali Wijenayaka on charges of money laundering.

Former Secretary to the Ministry of Defence Hemasiri Fernando and Inspector General of Police Pujith Jayasundara, who was sent on mandatory leave, have been further remanded until the 05th of February.

A 31-year old man has been killed during a brawl inside a night club in Mount Lavinia this morning (03) at around 4.45 am.

Citing the five volumes of the forensic audit report on the Central Bank Treasury Bond Scam tabled in Parliament, Dr. Harsha de Silva, said the audit report does not shows irregularities committed by politicians involved in the scam, but instead show indiscretion of politicised State officers.

On the directives of Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse, 14, 000 houses will be built within the next six months and 100, 000 kilometers of roads will be vested to the public, MP Namal Rajapakse said.

Sri Lanka’s president ordered a fresh investigation Sunday into a multi-billion dollar aircraft purchase involving the island’s loss-making national carrier, days after Airbus settled corruption probes in Europe and the US.

The Government, in line with the President’s Visions of Prosperity policy has already commenced purchasing paddy at a minimum guaranteed price of Rs. 50 per one kilogram under the government’s program to purchase the paddy harvest in Maha season 2019/2020.

Despite the price of crude oil falling in the world market, local fuel prices will remain unchanged, the Ministry of Petroleum Resources Development stated.

SriLankan Airlines thanked their pilots and staff who volunteered to operate the charter flight yesterday (31) that repatriated the 33 Sri Lankan students and their families that were trapped in Wuhan which is considered to be the epicentre of the coronavirus.

The Commander of the Sri Lanka Army Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva says none of the 33 Lankans including students and their family members who returned to Sri Lanka from Wuhan, China were observed to have any symptoms of the Coronavirus or fever.

UNP Deputy Leader Sajith Premadasa’s Camp, yesterday, January 31, assured that it wouldn’t press for the leadership of the party.

The special flight (UL1422) chartered by SriLankan Airlines, which departed to evacuate Sri Lankan students stuck in the epicentre of the novel coronavirus outbreak, has taken off from Wuhan at 4.05 am (China Local Time) this morning.

Minister Mahinda Amaraweera says a group of Parliamentarians who do not waste public funds set aside for the development of the country must be elected to Parliament.