Category: Local News

Pakistan hiring Lankan Muslims as spies spooks intelligence agencies – report

The arrest of a third Sri Lankan spying on India on behalf of Pakistan in less than 10 months has got intelligence agencies to train their focus back on growing radicalization among Tamil-speaking Muslims in eastern Sri Lanka where Pakistan has been fishing for a long time, Indian Media reports. […]



President Xi’s visit: 20 mega deals in 23 hours

Chinese President Xi Jinping will arrive in Sri Lanka on Tuesday for a 23-hour state visit during which he will oversee the signing of at least 20 agreements. Many of the agreements had been received by the Ministry of External Affairs in the final weeks before the proposed visit, leaving officials with little time to […]



Why is it hard to honor non-white inventors? Acknowledging Hindu Indian V A Shiva Ayyadurai – the Inventor of email

Everyone will agree that we cannot do without email. How many of us know who invented it. Yet, even when the inventor, an Indian Hindu was honored recently by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi why did the Christian press keep a lid on the news. We must wonder if this was an intentional effort and […]



Foreign funded derogatory reports cannot match what world leaders saw and said about Sri Lanka

There is a very well planned concerted effort, well funded and with the same think tanks involved compiling report using ‘unknown’ witnesses or witnesses who have ‘escaped’ and awaiting asylum or refugee status to depict the notion that Sri Lanka needs to be divided and the North liberated. The reports are giveaways for when any […]



Main suspect in child abduction arrested

The main suspect who was behind the abduction of four year old Thamara Keshali Bandara was arrested by the police in Deegama today, police said. […]



Fishermen rule out immediate end to bottom-trawling

Upset at Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s remarks that his government will not free the trawlers in its custody, fishermen fear his stand will crush their livelihood and want the Centre to intervene. […]



Kidnapped girl found in Neriyawa

Keshani Bandara Wijeykoon, the four-year-old girl who went missing from her home in Gonagama in Wellawa erlier this week has been found abandoned near a shop at Neriyawa, police spokesman SSP Ajith Rohana said. […]



ISI spy arrested in Chennai also an LTTE cadre

Sri Lankan national Arun Selvarajan, arrested by NIA on Wednesday for spying in India on behalf of Pakistan’s ISI, has turned out to be an LTTE man. A Lankan Tamil, Selvarajan is wanted in Sri Lanka for providing logistical support to LTTE cadres. There is a lookout notice pending against him. […]



Otara gives up ODEL, sells total shares to Softlogics

Founder of ODEL PLC Otara Gunawardene sold her entire shares in the company to the Softlogic Group for nearly Rs 2.7 billion. […]



How does the UN identify a Civilian from a Combatant (not a paper distinction)?

There are plenty of laws and conventions on how wars are to be fought, but those laws were for wars that did not have cowards manipulating them. Today’s wars are all proxy wars as state armies fight asymmetrical wars where from some corner or corners of the world, groups of people with vested interested put […]



Suspect shot while trying to flee

A suspect who was produced in the Kesbewa Magistrate’s Court from the Welikada Prison had been shot by Prison guards a short while ago, while trying to flee, Police said. […]



LTTE War Crimes : Another Witness – Anna Neistat of Human Rights Watch

Anna Neistat Senior Research of the Human Rights Watch was interviewed by Steve Paikin through the tv program ‘The Agenda with Steve Paikin” in 2009. The allegations by Anna Neistat re-establishes and reiterates as well as reconfirms of LTTE war crimes in forcibly keeping civilians without allowing them to escape to safety, shooting civilians who […]



Lankan arrested on charge of spying for Pakistan

A Sri Lankan national was arrested on Wednesday by National Investigation Agency (NIA) on the charge of spying on behalf of Pakistan. […]



Sri Lanka’s largest book exhibition kicks off

– by Janaka Alahapperuma – President Mahinda Rajapaksa declared open the Colombo International Book Exhibition-2014, Sri Lanka’s largest book fair yesterday morning at the Sirimavo Bandaranaike Exhibition Centre at BMICH premises amidst a large number of book publishers in the country and overseas. This book fair will continue until September 16th from 9.00am to 9.00pm. […]



TNA & Chief Minister Wigneswaran – STOP COMPLAINING and start developing North Sri Lanka (TNA given Rs.1.385billion – Rs.380m only spent)

Ever since winning the Northern Provincial elections in 2013, the TNA and its Chief Minister has been doing nothing but complain. Complaining, crying to foreign nations and leaders, going on sponsored visits round the globe, gallivanting to India to complain and now asking Tamil youth to act as spies is all that the TNA placed […]



Jaya seeks Centre’s intervention for release of TN fishermen

Chennai: Taking up the latest instance of arrest of six fishermen by the Lankan Navy, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa today sought the Centre’s intervention for their release, and called for retrieval of Katchatheevu. […]