Category: Local News

Leader of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA), R. Sampanthan, while extending his warmest congratulations to India’s new government led by Narendra Modi, sought Indian assistance in establishing peace in Sri Lanka. In a letter sent to Modi, Sampanthan says, “We look forward to work closely with you and your government to further strengthen genuine ties […]

Sri Lanka’s powerful Finance Secretary Dr. P B Jayasundera is to be removed from the additional post of Secretary to the Ministry of Economic Development, according to sources. […]

The Indian Prime Minister designate Narendra Modi should urge the visiting Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa to cooperate with UN-led investigation into alleged serious violations and abuses of human rights and related crimes committed during the country’s civil war, Amnesty International India said on Friday. […]

The 2011 EPF accounts which were presented to Parliament on Wednesday has only a qualified opinion from the Auditor General (AG) which indicated that he was not satisfied with the incomplete information that had been provided, the UNP said yesterday. […]

Cabinet Ministers of Sri Lanka have no business to go off on a tangent expressing their rejected and defunct ideologies through Ministries they enjoy at the expense of the taxpaying public and based purely on compassionate grounds of the head of State, a sentiment that is not shared by any member of the common masses. […]

The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) today rejected the invitation extended to Chief Minister C.Wigneswaran by President Mahinda Rajapaksa to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Indian Prime Minister designate Narendra Modi stating that such collusion would give a false impression to the International Community. […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa has extended an invitation to the Chief Minister of the Northern Provincial Council Justice C.V. Wigneswaran to join the Presidential Delegation to attend the ceremony at which the Oath of Office to India’s Prime Minister-designate Mr. Narendra Modi will be administered. […]

The chief suspect in the Peliyagoda Urban Council member’s murder has been arrested from Katunayaka, Police said. Police have recovered a motorbike, full face helmet, two mobile phones and attire similar to military fatigues believed to have been used during the murder plot. […]

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa will attend the swearing in ceremony of India’s Prime Minister elect Narendra Modi on May 26 at the Rastrapathi Bhawan, […]

Chennai: Chief minister J. Jayalalithaa has termed as ‘unfortunate’ the invitation by Prime Minister designate Narendra Modi to Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa to attend his swearing-in ceremony and said it was “tantamount to rubbing salt into the wounds of the already deeply injured Tamil psyche.” […]

Only people with clean hands can claim right to find fault with others and question their integrity. In taking an oath of loyalty to the National Constitution and country to protect its territorial integrity and sovereignty how far the BASL has compromised itself in accepting funds and donations from foreign sources is a matter that […]

A manis reported to have been admitted to hospital after he was shot at by an unidentified man near the Tangalle Magistrate’s Courts a short while ago. […]

Two Uva Provincial Council members from Minister Wimal Weerawansa’s NFF have defected. Capt. Mihimal Munasinghe has joined the UNP and W.A. Udayakumara has joined the SLFP […]

The Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) has decided to take legal action against the Police Department over the arrests of university students who were engaging in protests. […]

Ibrahim Shafaz Abdul Razzaq (Safa), a local drug lord serving a 18-year prison sentence and missing after being granted permission to leave the country for medical purposes, has been arrested in Sri Lanka. […]

– by Janaka Alahapperuma – President Mahinda Rajapaksa who is in Shanghai, China on an official visit to attend the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) met with the Secretary General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon this evening (May 21). The President enlightened him about the post-war development activities and […]