https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-10-anojan-sivarasa-appeal-saudi-supreme-court/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-10T00:00:00.000Z Appeal against Anojan Sivarasa's death sentence finalised for the Saudi Supreme Court https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-10-apeksha-hospital-cancer-care-review/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-10T00:00:00.000Z Health Ministry pledges to end cancer treatment delays at Apeksha Hospital https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-10-army-77th-anniversary-panagoda-schools/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-10T00:00:00.000Z Army marks 77th anniversary at Panagoda and honours the schools its soldiers came from https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-10-coal-commission-two-month-extension/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-10T00:00:00.000Z Coal procurement commission asks the President for a two-month extension, six days before its term expires https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-10-education-internet-safety-guidelines/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-10T00:00:00.000Z Rs. 96 billion school digitalisation plan clears policy stage as internet safety guidelines go to pilot https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-10-futa-intensified-trade-union-action/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-10T00:00:00.000Z FUTA to escalate trade union action, saying letters to the President went unanswered https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-10-india-tourism-campaign-kolkata-flights/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-10T00:00:00.000Z Indian investor urges a dedicated India campaign and the return of Colombo–Kolkata flights https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-10-kotmale-garandi-ella-landslide/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-10T00:00:00.000Z Landslide at Garandi Ella cuts the Hatton–Gampola road to one lane https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-10-madu-ganga-boat-controls-ramsar/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-10T00:00:00.000Z Madu Ganga tourist boats face 15 HP engine cap and a 5 p.m. curfew https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-10-matale-yatawatta-police-officers-assaulted/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-10T00:00:00.000Z Four arrested after three police officers assaulted on a 119 call-out in Matale https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-10-parent-care-allowance-defence-ministry/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-10T00:00:00.000Z Parent care allowance still running, Defence Ministry says — but only half of those eligible draw it https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-10-port-city-worker-killed-clash/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-10T00:00:00.000Z Contract worker stabbed to death in clash at Colombo Port City labour quarters https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-10-premadasa-microfinance-debt-relief/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-10T00:00:00.000Z Premadasa presses for a microfinance debt relief programme, citing two million borrowers https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-10-rcgc-monthly-medal-golf/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-10T00:00:00.000Z Over 250 golfers tee off in RCGC Monthly Medal at Borella https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-10-satyagraha-kandy-gnanasara-release/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-10T00:00:00.000Z Maha Sangha begins a six-day protest walk from Kandy to Colombo over Gnanasara Thera's robes https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-10-shiran-basik-dambulla-property-seized/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-10T00:00:00.000Z Drug trafficker Shiran Basik's Dambulla land and houses seized by CCIB https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-10-slbfe-jaffna-foreign-employment-job-fair/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-10T00:00:00.000Z Foreign employment bureau holds Jaffna job fair focused on Japan, Israel and South Korea https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-10-sri-lanka-china-2027-anniversary-preparations/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-10T00:00:00.000Z Herath and Chinese envoy open talks on marking two 2027 anniversaries https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-10-sri-lanka-condemns-saudi-airport-attacks/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-10T00:00:00.000Z Sri Lanka condemns attacks on Saudi civilian airports https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-10-trump-russian-diesel-zelensky/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-10T00:00:00.000Z Zelensky calls Trump's Russian diesel deal a gift to Putin https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-10-urban-wildlife-peacocks-monkeys-deer-colombo/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-10T00:00:00.000Z Peacocks, monkeys and deer moving into Colombo as habitats shrink, says Wildlife Department https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-10-weerawansa-chinese-ambassador-meeting/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-10T00:00:00.000Z Weerawansa meets the new Chinese Ambassador at the embassy's invitation https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-10-wijewardana-world-bank-inflation-target/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-10T00:00:00.000Z World Bank backs the 5% inflation target; a former Deputy Governor says it will deepen poverty https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-10-zebra-surgery-dehiwala-zoo/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-10T00:00:00.000Z Specialist recommends surgery for Dehiwala Zoo zebra with a digestive blockage https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-09-advocata-port-city-tax-exemptions/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Thinktank says Port City tax breaks for luxury flats distort the market and should be reviewed https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-09-apeksha-ct-simulator-cancer-patients/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z 1,500 cancer patients await radiation therapy as new Apeksha CT simulator sits unusable https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-09-bcg-ceylon-chamber-consumer-spending-report/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Household spending hits record Rs. 8.9 trillion as middle class shrinks, BCG survey finds https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-09-bcg-office-expansion-partners-conference/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Boston Consulting Group takes Colombo office space as 600 partners meet in Sri Lanka https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-09-cabraal-withdraws-appeal-greek-bond/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Cabraal withdraws Supreme Court appeal in Greek bond case as Trial-at-Bar order nears https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-09-cbsl-governor-defends-5-percent-inflation-target/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Weerasinghe defends the 5% inflation target: a lower one would hold growth below potential https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-09-chamara-sampath-ciaboc-statement/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z MP Chamara Sampath Dassanayake summoned to give a statement to the Bribery Commission https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-09-clean-colombo-drainage-waste-management/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Presidential Secretariat reviews Clean Colombo progress on drainage and waste https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-09-court-appeal-elephant-train-collisions/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Court of Appeal orders Railways and Wildlife to act on elephant deaths on the tracks https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-09-cse-aspi-closes-up-0-41-percent/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Colombo bourse closes up 0.41% but ends the week 496 points lower https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-09-deshabandu-weligama-indictments-matara/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Magistrate's Court closes Weligama hotel shooting case as nine officers are indicted in the High Court https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-09-diplomatic-missions-chengdu-astana-bern/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Sri Lanka to open three new diplomatic missions in Chengdu, Astana and Bern https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-09-diyagama-forest-reserve-parliament/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Government moves to declare Diyagama forest a reserve https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-09-dmt-vehicle-transfer-enforcement-december/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Motor Traffic Department to enforce 14-day vehicle transfer rule from December 1 https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-09-epf-arrears-20726-companies/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z More than 20,700 private companies owe workers Rs. 34.3 billion in unpaid EPF https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-09-galle-face-hotel-sata-gold-conde-nast/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Galle Face Hotel takes SATA Gold for heritage and sixth place in Condé Nast readers' vote https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-09-gem-mining-14-arrests-bogawantalawa-maskeliya/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Fourteen held over unlicensed gem mining in two raids at Bogawantalawa and Maskeliya https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-09-gnanasara-robes-clergy-letters-president/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Kotte Sangha Sabha says it was left out of the President's talks on Gnanasara Thera's robes https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-09-gotabaya-supreme-court-appeal-easter-probe/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Gotabaya appeals to Supreme Court after writ against Easter arrest is thrown out https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-09-habaraduwa-sisters-ginigala-murder/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Two elderly sisters found beaten to death behind their home in Habaraduwa https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-09-hotel-asia-exporters-maldives/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Sri Lankan exporters book $50,000 in orders at Maldives hotel trade fair https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-09-hrc-commissioner-hemamal-jayawardene/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Speaker's casting vote decides Human Rights Commission appointment https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-09-janey-lowes-dog-jog-620km/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z British vet sets off from Point Pedro on a 620 km run for Sri Lanka's street dogs https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-09-kaduwela-cashier-sentenced-135m/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Former state bank chief cashier jailed 15 years over Rs. 135 million fraud https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-09-kalutara-nagoda-restaurant-owner-shot/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Restaurant owner shot dead and his wife wounded in Kalutara T-56 attack https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-09-laparoscopy-machines-health-ministry/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Rs. 120m laparoscopy machines donated for Kandy and Ragama hospitals https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-09-maduro-torture-conspiracy-charges/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Maduro and wife charged with conspiracy to commit torture in US indictment https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-09-metro-bus-attacks-police-investigation/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Police investigate coordinated attacks on Colombo's Metro buses, arrests made https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-09-national-building-code-nbcsl/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Sri Lanka starts work on its first National Building Code https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-09-no-confidence-motion-speaker-wickramaratne/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Opposition hands in no-confidence motion against Speaker with 44 signatures https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-09-nobel-peace-prize-navi-pillay/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Navi Pillay wins 2026 Nobel Peace Prize https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-09-padukka-railway-productivity-award/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Padukka becomes the first Sri Lankan railway station to win a productivity award https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-09-pakistan-beat-sri-lanka-first-t20i/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Pakistan take the first T20I by four wickets as Udara's 91 goes unrewarded https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-09-parliament-13th-amendment-rock-stones-land/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Premadasa presses for full 13th Amendment implementation in Parliament https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-09-postal-service-digitization-2027/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Sri Lanka's postal service to be fully digitised by 2027, Postmaster General says https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-09-rome-commonwealth-food-fair-best-food-award/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Sri Lanka's Rome embassy wins Best Food at the Commonwealth Food Fair for a third year https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-09-scouts-vidullanka-drone-solar-monitoring/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Sri Lankan startup puts autonomous drones over Vidullanka's solar plants https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-09-seylan-bank-one-trillion-assets/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Seylan Bank's assets pass Rs. 1 trillion, the fourth private bank in Sri Lanka to get there https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-09-shiranthi-rajapaksa-general-ward-eye-hospital/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Shiranthi Rajapaksa moved to general ward after National Eye Hospital visit https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-09-six-acquitted-wickremesinghe-residence-arson/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Six acquitted over 2022 arson at Wickremesinghe's private residence https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-09-slcert-foreign-university-scam-warning/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Sri Lanka CERT warns of fake foreign university admission ads on social media https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-09-slpp-slfp-special-talks/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z SLPP and SLFP delegations hold special talks at SLFP headquarters https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-09-sri-lanka-pakistan-first-t20i-rawalpindi/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Sri Lanka open T20I series in Pakistan under tightened Rawalpindi security https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-09-srilankan-riyadh-flights-cancelled/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z SriLankan Airlines suspends all Riyadh flights until 18 October https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-09-srilankan-riyadh-office-relocated/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z SriLankan Airlines opens relocated Riyadh office days before grounding the route https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-09-thilina-gamage-dismissed-jsc/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z JSC removes former Colombo Chief Magistrate Thilina Gamage from service https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-09-tm-app-pyramid-directors-travel-ban/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Travel ban on two directors of banned 'TM App' pyramid scheme https://lankanewz.com/article/2026-10-09-writ-gnanasara-robes-court-appeal/ LankaNewz en 2026-10-09T00:00:00.000Z Writ filed in Court of Appeal to quash removal of Gnanasara Thera's robes