Category: Local News

MP Athuraliye Rathana Thera seeks protection from Inspector General of Police; N.K. Illangakoon in written stating that he has security threats. […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa signed a proclamation declaring his intention to hold a Presidential Election seeking another term, a little while ago. […]

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday termed the release of five fishermen on death row in Sri Lanka as ‘heart-warming’, adding that the action will help improve the ties between the two countries. […]

The mainstream media professes to be unbiased and independent. When they are owned and run as corporates it is questionable how far they are ‘unbiased’ and ‘independent’ and how ethical they are in their conduct. The best way to showcase this is to highlight some of the examples that have been exposed. […]

Elections Commissioner Mahinda Deshapriya yesterday said he is awaiting President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s proclamation to proceed with the preparatory work for the 2015 presidential poll. “I shall receive the President’s proclamation with instructions to conduct the Presidential Election 2015, either by midnight today or tomorrow (today 20),” Elections Commissioner Deshapriya said. […]

United Peoples’ Freedom Alliance (UPFA) Gampaha District MP Wasantha Senanayake is to make a special statement in Parliament tomorrow (20). […]

A country is governed by a government. That government is chosen by the people. People chose the representatives based on various factors and that generally rotates from personal advantage to considering the national needs and in particular the national security dimension. Unlike other developing nations, Sri Lanka’s literacy being over 90% the people are well […]

External Affairs Minister Prof. G. L. Peiris yesterday said that the JHU’s actions wouldn’t hinder incumbent President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s ongoing campaign, much less prevent his victory at the next presidential election. […]

The new head of the UN Human Rights Council deems fit to insult a democratically elected UN Member country for bringing to the attention of the Human Rights world body the arrest of an unrehabilitated LTTE cadre collecting blank forms with signatures and handing them to a Tamil National Alliance member who hands these over to […]

Science and Technology Minister and JHU General Secretary Patali Champika Ranawaka today said he and Western Provincial Council Minister Udaya Gammanpila would resign from their ministerial positions and remain as JHU representatives and not as representatives of the UPFA. They would continue to function as an independent party not bound by the UPFA. […]

UNP Opposition Leader of the UVA Provincial Council Harin Fernando told the ruling UPFA administration last week that if the government failed to build 70 houses for the Koslanda landslide victims he would do so with his personal funds. […]

Police believe that the Colombo National Museum had been broken into once again on 16 November, the Police Media Unit said.The Cinnamon Gardens Police has received a complaint that the back door of the gallery, that displayed antique textiles and clay items, had been forced open on 16 November night. […]

Three persons including two MSD officers attached to the Uva Province Chief Minister’s security detail were killed and four others injured when their vehicle met with an accident in Buttala this morning,police said. […]

Ven. Athuraliye RathanaThera today resigned from the post of Divulapitiya Divisional Development Committee (DDDC) Chairman and returned the vehicle that was provided to him by the Economic Development Ministry to carry out the work of the Committee. […]

The Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) said a final decision on whether to remain in the coalition government or not would be taken today (17) at its Central Working Committee meeting. […]

The buzzword is reconciliation. It enters into every report, every public speech, every public statement and every communication. Yet, in real terms what does it mean and to whom should it apply? If there is any confusion it is primarily because people are finding it hard to differentiate Tamils from Tigers Terrorists. That difficulty is […]