Category: Local News

The JVP said that the government was silent on small extremist groups who sowed ethnic hatred in the country to draw attention away from the sky rocketing cost of living and other burdens, which had become unbearable to people. […]

Southern Provincial High Court today issued a writ order against the Gazette notification which suspended the former Galle mayor Methsiri de Silva from the Galle Mayorship. […]

There are time-tested ways to embarrass a country. Rape, torture, kidnapping, genocide are just a handful and with mainstream media, roped in journalists, puppet UN officials, money-hungry NGOs forming a team to project ‘allegations’ & ‘stories’ without evidence or proof, a country is automatically declared guilty by default. Rape has been defined a war crime. […]

Outgoing United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay yesterday announced a three-member expert panel comprising former Finish President and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Martti Ahtisaari, former New Zealand High Court Judge Silvia Cartwright and former President of Pakistan Supreme Court Asma Jahangir to advise the UN team inquiring into accountability issues in Sri […]

Sri Lanka Navy’s Chief of Staff Jayantha Perera is to be appointed Navy Commander from July 1 on the retirement of the present Navy Commander Jayantha Colambage on June 30. […]

The long-standing fishermen issue with Sri Lanka came to a head on Tuesday with chief minister J Jayalalithaa stating that India should not recognise the International Maritime Boundary Line (IMBL) with the island nation as a settled question, as the constitutionality of the 1974 and 1976 agreements had been challenged. […]

The Sri Lankan military has announced that they have received information that certain politicians are attempting to divulge names of intelligence units and pin blame on them for the Aluthgama debacle in an obvious effort to create distrust and bring further chaos. It smacks memory of Aturugiriya and reminds us of how UNP for cheap […]

In July of 2013, European Parliament identified the Wahhabi movement as the source of global terrorism and a threat to traditional and diverse Muslim cultures of the whole world. Wahhabi cult was a creation of the British. That should make Muslims happy that the EU Parliament has identified not all Muslims as terrorists but Wahhabis. The Al Qaeda was […]

A fire has broken out at a store of a shirt factory in the Katunayake Free Trade Zone a short while ago, police said. […]

A Malaysian pilgrim from Kuala Berang, Terengganu passed away on her way back from Saudi Arabia as the flight was passing through the Sri Lanka air space, forcing the flight to make an emergency landing at the Colombo International Airport. […]

CHENNAI: A couple of days after theatres stopped screening Sri Lankan film ‘With You, Without You’ citing threats from some groups, co-producer of the movie and prominent documentary filmmaker Rahul Roy on Monday petitioned chief minister J Jayalalithaa. Supporting Roy who has sought safe screening of the movie across the state, 101 people including filmmakers, […]

The former Sri Lankan President, Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, has expressed “deep concern” over the recent outbreak of communal violence and anti-Muslim attacks in several areas of the country in the past week. […]

Police would not prevent a Bodu Bala Sena event scheduled to be held today at 3.00 p.m. opposite the Sri Dalada Maligawa as it was a religious event, police spokesman SSP Ajith Rohana said yesterday. […]

Schools in the Beruwala Educational Zone, except for 9 schools will re-open today. The remaining 9 schools too will be re-opened immediately after the refugees housed in those schools are re-located. […]

A 27-year-old youth has been stabbed to death with a sharp object in the Ayagama area, after an argument had allegedly escalated out of control. […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa opened the Fuel Bunkering Terminal and Storage Facility at the Magam Ruhunupura Mahinda Rajapaksa Port (MRMRP) on Sunday (22) evening. […]