Category: Local News

The Dalai Lama Sunday reiterated his plea to Buddhists in Myanmar and Sri Lanka to halt violence against Muslims, in a speech to tens of thousands of devotees to mark his 79th birthday. […]

Australia said on Monday 41 asylum seekers had been handed to Sri Lankan authorities at sea, another step that has galvanised opposition to the government’s hardline policy against illegal arrivals and raised fears of rights abuses in Sri Lanka. […]

India’s National Fishworkers’ Forum (NFF) has sought Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s intervention to work out a permanent solution to the conflicts in Palk strait between Indian and Sri Lankan fishermen and also take measures for retrieval of Katchatheevu. […]

  Lascarins (or Lascareen or Lascoreen or Lascarine) (Sinhala: ලස්කිරිඤ්ඤ laskirigngna) is a term used in Sri Lanka to identify indigenous soldiers who fought for the Portuguese during the Portuguese era (1505–1658) and continued to serve as colonial soldiers until the 1930s. In other words Lascarins are those who fought on the side of enemy against their own people. There was also the term sepoy used for natives who worked […]

Malaysian police said on Friday they had arrested four foreign nationals suspected of having links to Sri Lanka’s defeated separatist Tamil Tigers, the second such detention aimed at the group’s militants in the southeast Asian country. The four are believed to be senior members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, also known as the […]

The unloading and storing of refined crude oil was halted yesterday due to a pipeline bursting off the buoy located in the sea off the coast of Uswetakeiyawa. […]

Britain said that any visa application from Ven. Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thera of Bodu Bala Sena would be considered in accordance with the Immigration Rules. […]

A motorcyclist who entered the Katunayake expressway defying police warning died due to an accident injuring one at Wattala – Police […]

The Human Rights Watch has asked Sri Lanka not to deport members of Pakistan’s minority Ahmadiyya community until the U.N. refugee agency had full access to them and determined their need for international protection. […]

Tony Abbott refused to answer questions over the fate of two boatloads of asylum seekers on Thursday but said: “I want to make this observation, Sri Lanka is not everyone’s idea of an ideal society, but it is at peace.” […]

General Secretary of the Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) Ven. Galabodaatta Gnanasara yesterday alleged that SLMC could be behind religious violence. […]

  In what is clearly double speak and hypocrisy the US asks Sri Lanka to protect the minorities while in the US hate crimes has jumped to over 50%. The statistics itself are appalling. The term Islamophobia itself was coined probably by the West in an overall plan that cannot omit drawing a link and […]

A man(35) has been arrested over the alleged murder of his daughter(7) and son(3) in Meeoyawatta, Yatiyantota, Police said today. The bodies of the children were found hanging at their line house and the father was arrested with multiple cut wound believed to be self inflicted while attempting to commit suicide. […]

The Sri Lankan military says it has not intercepted a boatload of Tamil asylum seekers bound for Australia refuting reports the Sri Lankan Navy were preparing to pick them up mid-ocean. […]

The Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) yesterday admonished the government, the Opposition and the police, to not touch them, as it would be a move tantamount to digging their own grave. […]

Straightforward leadership has been lacking in politics and by politicians. Narendra Modi has shown he is a different and ushering a new era and new style. We commend the recent directive of Narendra Modi. […]