A vacancy for executioner in Sri Lanka has led to 102 applications. President Maithripala Sirisena announced last year that the death penalty for drug offenses would be reintroduced after decades. Previous...
There is still no definitive solution to the political crisis that has kept Sri Lanka in its grip for weeks. The parliament voted yesterday the newly appointed Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa with a vote of no confidence, but the conflict seems not resolved yet. For the time being, the outgoing minister-president does not want to know about neighborhoods.
A 35-year-old German woman died Sunday in Sri Lanka when she tried to make a selfie. According to the police she fell, while she tried to immortalise herself on the edge of an abyss. The accident occurred in Horton Plains nature park, about 150 kilometers east of the capital Colombo.
The president of Sri Lanka says he sent the government home because he was the target of a murder plot. Maithripala Sirisena made that claim during a speech broadcast on television.
Sri Lankan residents will soon be able to apply for the position of executioner. The country has not carried out executions for decades, but that seems to be changing now. President Maithripala Sirisena is considering revitalizing the execution of the death penalty.
A judge in Sri Lanka has ordered the arrest of villagers who have bludgeoned a leopard. The predator, which is a protected species in the country, had recently escaped government officials who wanted to bring the animal to safety.
Two air passengers have been caught at an airport in Sri Lanka on the smuggling of 20 gold bars in their rear. The man and the woman, aged 32 and 24, stood up with customs officials because of their uncomfortable run. During a check the gold bars came to light.
Five people were killed in an accident in a rubber factory in Sri Lanka. One of the victims died when he fell into a tank with ammonia.
Sri Lankan women who are going to work as housekeeper in the Middle East must take the prick pill before leaving. Several recruits in the country guarantee the future employer that the women will not become pregnant for at least three months.
From our editorial office abroad
A 45-year-old man from Sri Lanka walked against the lamp at Colombo airport after suspected himself in the departures hall. Further investigation showed that there was a kilo of gold in his rectum.
The Sri Lankan Coast Guard rescued two young elephants from the sea on Sunday. The rescue services had to come into action two weeks ago to get an elephant out of the water.
A mafia babe from Long Island, Sonny Franzese, was released at a prison at Boston at the age of 100. American media reported that on Friday afternoon, in a wheelchair after 35 years, he left the freedom behind the bars. He was the oldest prisoner of the US. He pulls in with his daughter in Brooklyn.
The Red Cross is working with man and power at work in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh to help victims of the cyclone Mora. The relief organization reported Tuesday that the death toll in Sri Lanka has increased by natural violence to 177.
Floods and landslides in Sri Lanka have killed at least 55 people on Friday, local authorities reported. More than forty people in the south and west of the country are missing. Sri Lanka has been plagued by severe storms for many days.
The hope that there are survivors found Sunday largely gone in the garbage shifted in Colombo. Over a thousand rescuers throughout the day was occupied with the search for victims and clean up. They put on the work Monday.
At least ten people have come to life because of the collapse of a landfill in Sri Lanka. Among the victims are four children, police said Saturday.
At least six people Friday were killed by debris began to slide on a garbage dump in the capital of Sri Lanka. Witnesses said that at least forty homes were buried under the rubble.
Colombo, capital of Sri Lanka, is the highest (fake) tree ever. The tree is a whopping 73 meters high, 18 meters higher than the previous record holder.
A pilot of SriLankan Airlines reported recently drunk at Frankfurt Airport in Germany for his long-haul flight to Colombo. The man was stopped when the cabin crew had beaten alarm, German media said Sunday.
A collision with a train in Sri Lanka has four elephants, including a calf, Wednesday killed. The New Indian Express newspaper reported that the incident took place in the northern district of Vavuniya.
Port workers and conservationists have in Sri Lanka delivered a baby elephant sun was getting stuck in a drainage pipe at the city Hambantota.
The death toll from the storm in Sri Lanka Thursday rose to definitely 58. More than 300,000 people have fled their homes, an army spokesman confirmed.
Landslides caused by heavy rainfall have cost many lives in Sri Lanka. Rescue workers fear that still unfortunate will be those who are engulfed by mudslides in the middle of the country more than 150 victims.
A six year old boy from Sri Lanka was expelled from school because of a rumor that he was infected with HIV. Parents kept their children at home while the boy still was taught, reported the
BBC .
