Category: Local News

Sri Lanka demands to know if ITAK is pretending to seek a Federal solution but aiming for a Confederacy

The ITAK has a new leader. He is Mavai Senathirajah. It is a perfect time to bring questions out into the open and seek answers to satisfy our doubts. Top on that list is the question is the ITAK constitution Federal or Confederal? We will not accept claims of being federal while the aims and […]



Govt. wasting billions on unsolicited projects: Harsha

United National Party (UNP) parliamentarian and well-known economist Harsha De Silva said today the Government had got its priorities mixed up by spending a staggering Rs.337 billion obtained as loans from China on unsolicited projects including the proposed Port City. […]



UNP candidate Kuttiarachchi remanded

Uva Provincial Council election candidate and UNP Monaragala district organizer, Tissa Kuttiarachchi has been remanded by the Monaragala Magistrate’s Court till 12 September. […]



ITAK-TNA denying fundamental right of Sinhalese and Muslims to live in North Sri Lanka

Chief Minister Wigneswaran says Tamil people have rejected separatism. That may be but what about Tamil politicians, have they rejected separatism is the more important unanswered question. Linked to this is the very ugly manner in which across the world knowing they are telling lies, the Tamil political parties and part of LTTE Tamil Diaspora […]



A four year old child abducted in Kurunegala

A four and half-year-old girl was reported to be missing from her house in the Wellawa area in Kurunegala this morning, Police said. […]



Collect Data on Army Activity, Wigneswaran to Tamil Youth

The Chief Minister of Sri Lanka’s Tamil-speaking Northern Province, C V Wigneswaran, has urged Tamil youth to collect information on the deployment and activities of the Sri Lankan armed forces in the province, even as he told the Tamils, as a whole, to eschew separatism and militancy as these have proved to be counterproductive. […]



Minister: CPC losing on diesel, kerosene

The Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) is losing five rupees from every litre of diesel and 23 rupees from every litre of kerosene oil at present, Petroleum Industries Minister Anura Priyadarshana Yapa has said. […]



How MEDIA and HR Groups purposely misinterpreted Ban Ki Moon’s Panel of Expert Report

Ban Ki Moon the UN Secretary General appointed an Advisory Panel to ADVISE HIM on the final phase of the war in Sri Lanka. That advisory panel was not an officially UN General Assembly or UN Security Council endorsed panel and that may explain why its report ended up being ‘leaked’ and thereafter becoming quoted […]



UNP MP’s leg amputated after expressway mishap

Gampaha District UNP MP Ajith Mannapperuma’s left leg was amputated yesterday following a road mishap where his vehicle crashed into a side railing of the Southern Expressway. […]



Sri Lanka and Japan to Strengthen Relations in the Maritime Sector and at International Fora

President Mahinda Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe met for bilateral discussions at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo this afternoon. Following one-on-one discussions, the two leaders joined their respective delegations for extended talks, which focused a considerable amount on strengthening relations between the two nations in the maritime sector and at international fora. […]



Japanese premier arrives in Sri Lanka

Shinzo Abe arrived in Sri Lanka today as the first Japanese Prime Minister to visit Sri Lanka in 24 years, aiming to boost trade and counter China’s rising influence in South Asia. […]



Japan’s PM Shin​zo Abe will arrive in Sri Lanka today

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe accompanied by by a high level deligation will arrive in Sri La​nka this afternoon. […]



Four dead after SUV collides with three-wheeler

Four individuals including two women were killed following a collision involving a three-wheeler and a SUV in the Kekirawa Town this morning. […]



Government to construct Ruwanpura Expressway

The government is planning to construct Ruwanpura Expressway also known as the Ratnapura Expressway which will be Sri Lanka’s sixth E Class highway. The 71.8 km (44.6 mi) long highway will link the Kahathuduwa exit on the Southern Expressway with Pelmadulla, a major city in Sabaragamuwa Province, Sri Lanka, via Ratnapura, the provincial capital of […]



Distilleries losing business to competitors not paying tax

Mr. Harry Jayawardena, Chairman of the Distilleries Company of Sri Lanka PLC (DCSL), has complained bitterly of the lack of a level playing field for the alcohol business with rampant increase in non-invoiced and tax-unpaid alcohol openly eating into the market share of legitimate businesses. […]



Senior Japanese Diplomat Yasushi Akashi Meets President Rajapaksa

Representative of the Government of Japan for Peace Building, Rehabilitation and Reconstruction in Sri Lanka Mr. Yasushi Akashi called on President Mahinda Rajapaksa at Temple Trees this afternoon, ahead of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visit to Sri Lanka tomorrow (Sept. 7). […]