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Three including woman arrested with narcotics worth Rs. 2 million - LankaXpress

Three individuals, including a woman have been arrested in Karuvappankerny, Batticaloa with a stock of narcotics valued at around Rs. 2 million, police stated. Police have seized 1 kilogram of Kerala cannabis, 50 grams of crystal methamphetamine (“ice”), and 25 grams of heroin found in their possession. The arrested woman is 35 years old, while the two men are aged 24 and 34, according to police. Preliminary investigations have revealed that the…Read Article

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A. Varadaraja Perumal, the First and Last Chief Minister of the Combined North-Eastern Provincial Council, Has Embarked on a Political Agenda to Improve the Provincial Councils. – dbsjeyaraj.com

D.P.S. Jayaraj The Provincial Council system, implemented since 1988, has seen several Chief Ministers elected by the people for different Provincial Councils over the years. While the norm was for each province to have a separate Chief Minister, there was one notable exception in the past. Elections were held for the temporarily merged Northern and Eastern Provinces in November 1988. The first Chief Minister of the then North-Eastern Provincial…Read Article

Sri Lanka WindForce-Vidullanka 10MW solar plant completed

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka-based WindForce Plc said a 10 MW solar plant built in the eastern Batticaloa region as a joint venture with Vidullanka, was launched on July 26. The plant is expected to generate about 19.5 GigaWatt hours of electricity a year, Windforce said in a stock exchange filing. The plant is on high-salinity land in Vavunativu which is unfit for agriculture. The project was implemented through Sooryashakthi (Pvt) Limited, a fully …Cricket · Batticaloa Read Article

CID Reports to the Court that the Military Intelligence knew from the Beginning that Saharan had committed the Vavunathivu murders in November 2018! • Sri Lanka Brief

Sri Lanka Brief – July 29, 2025. Fresh revelations have cast doubt on the conduct of senior Army intelligence officers regarding the November 2018 killing of two police officers in Vavunathivu, Batticaloa. A report submitted to the Colombo Fort Magistrate’s Court suggests that military intelligence officials had received credible information linking the attack to the extremist group led by Saharan Hashim — yet failed to act. The report claims th…Batticaloa · Batticaloa Read Article

Sri Lanka President's Fund awards Rs. 36 Million to top A-Level students in Eastern Province

The President’s Fund awarded a grant of Rs. 100,000 each to 360 A-Level students from Sri Lanka’s Eastern Province who excelled across all subject streams. The programme, aimed at recognising high-achievers at the district level in the 2023/2024 G.C.E. Advanced Level Examination, was implemented by the President’s Fund and held yesterday (July 27) at the Swami Vipulananda Institute of Aesthetic Studies in Batticaloa. The event was presided over …A-Level · Batticaloa Read Article

The current deputy Defence Minister maintained deafening silence on Zahran’s activities as then Eastern Commander: MP • Sri Lanka Brief

Image: Major General (retired) Aruna Jayasekara was the man behind mobilising ex-military personnel to support NPP. Dropping a bombshell in Parliament, opposition MP Nizam Kariapper today said current Deputy Minister of Defence Aruna Jayasekera who was one time Security Force Commander in the east neglected prior information received on activities of Zahran who led the Easter Sunday attacks since 2015. MP Kariapper said the B report submitted t…Batticaloa · Batticaloa Read Article

Climate Colonialism in the Indian Ocean: Sri Lanka’s Green Future or New Dependency? - Groundviews

Photo courtesy of Lahiru Walpita Sri Lanka stands at a critical juncture. Emerging from economic turmoil and the long shadow of civil war, the country now confronts an arguably more insidious struggle: the negotiation of its environmental destiny. Governments and corporations alike hail wind farms, solar parks and carbon sequestration projects as the panacea forBatticaloa · Batticaloa Read Article

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Three including woman arrested with narcotics worth Rs. 2 million - LankaXpress

A. Varadaraja Perumal, the First and Last Chief Minister of the Combined North-Eastern Provincial Council, Has Embarked on a Political Agenda to Improve the Provincial Councils. – dbsjeyaraj.com

Sri Lanka WindForce-Vidullanka 10MW solar plant completed

CID Reports to the Court that the Military Intelligence knew from the Beginning that Saharan had committed the Vavunathivu murders in November 2018! • Sri Lanka Brief

Sri Lanka President's Fund awards Rs. 36 Million to top A-Level students in Eastern Province

The current deputy Defence Minister maintained deafening silence on Zahran’s activities as then Eastern Commander: MP • Sri Lanka Brief

Getting Rid of a Troublesome Priest - Groundviews

K. Pushpakumar, alias Iniya Bharathi, arrested by CID

Batticaloa set for enhanced transportation services

Climate Colonialism in the Indian Ocean: Sri Lanka’s Green Future or New Dependency? - Groundviews

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Sri Lanka WindForce-Vidullanka 10MW solar plant completed

CID Reports to the Court that the Military Intelligence knew from the Beginning that Saharan had committed the Vavunathivu murders in November 2018! • Sri Lanka Brief

Sri Lanka President's Fund awards Rs. 36 Million to top A-Level students in Eastern Province

The current deputy Defence Minister maintained deafening silence on Zahran’s activities as then Eastern Commander: MP • Sri Lanka Brief

Getting Rid of a Troublesome Priest - Groundviews

K. Pushpakumar, alias Iniya Bharathi, arrested by CID

Batticaloa set for enhanced transportation services

Climate Colonialism in the Indian Ocean: Sri Lanka’s Green Future or New Dependency? - Groundviews