Enforcement agencies have sounded an alert on drug cartels using Kochi as a transit point for smuggling heroin to Sri Lanka, where the demand for the contraband has doubled in the past one year.

Sri Lanka has offered Australian Immigration Minister Chris Bowen an escape for Tamil refugees branded a threat by security agencies and locked in indefinite detention in Australia - saying they are needed back home.

Sri Lanka government has commenced a programme to provide a glass of milk to school students and teachers of Nuwara Eliya district.

Unemployed graduates in Sri Lanka have opposed the government's move to get teachers from India to teach in the country's schools while a large number of Tamil graduates remain unemployed in the country.

Sri Lanka Minister of Higher Education S.B. Dissanayaka says that the Ministry will launch a reality television programme to promote talents of the university students.

The Police have requested the public to be on alert for forged currency notes in circulation.  The public are warned to be cautious and aware of forged currency notes as many incidents of circulation of fake notes were reported during the recent weeks, with several currency forgers being arrested.

The Sri Lankan Government is to commence the proposed lower Malwathu Oya reservoir project close to Thantirimale at the Anuradhapura-Mannar District boundary soon. 

BP Singapore Pte. Ltd., a unit of BP PLC (BP), said Monday that it was in talks with Ceylon Petroleum Corp., or Ceypetco, on the issue of supplying jet fuel of incorrect specifications. 

The Sri Lankan Ministry of Health depolyed special teams to companies manifacturing drugs today(14) to investigate the quality and the standard of the drugs imported. Director of Cosmetic Devices and Drugs Regulatory Authority (CDDRA) of Sri Lanka Dr. Hemantha  Beneragama said that the teams were deployed under the direction and instructions of Minister Maithreepala Sirisena, as several issues had arisen during the recent past with regards to the quality and the standard of imported drugs.  

President Mahinda Rajapaksa was very spontaneous when he stated that Sarath Fonseka will be released within this month, claimed R.K. Radhakrishnan, Deputy Editor of the Hindu publication.

The government supplies 24 hours of uninterrupted electricity to the people whereas other countries in Asia have to endure hours a day without power while factories are closed down for days, Power and Energy Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka stated.

An 8-hour water cut will be imposed on May 16 from 8.30 am to 4.30 pm in Katugastota, Ambatenna, Nawayalatenna, Kulugammana, Nugawela and Akurana, the Water Supply and Drainage Board stated.

A suspect was apprehended by police in possession of 5kg and 80g of marijuana in the Kahakurullanpalessa area in Thanamalwila yesterday and will be presented to court today, police stated.

The police have introduced a new facility in which the public can obtain a copy of a police entry immediately after the entry has been made, Police Spokesman SP Ajith Rohana stated.

The Government aims to reduce the per capita consumption of wheat flour per annum from current 26kg to 16kg, Economic Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa said today. Rajapaksa added that Sri Lanka has achieved self-sufficiency in rice as of this year.