Category: Local News

President Mahinda Rajapaksa left for Bahrain this morning on a two-day state visit. This is the President’s first visit to the country. During the tour, the President will hold bilateral discussions with His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa, the King of Bahrain, and the two countries are also scheduled to sign several memorandums of […]

The National Freedom Front (NFF) has accused the Leader of the Democratic Party (DP) Sarath Fonseka of being a crony of imperialistic Western powers whose sole intention is to subdue Sri Lanka. […]

Industry and Commerce Minister Rishad Bathiudeen yesterday said that the country would have to pay a very heavy price for the failure on the part of the authorities concerned to rein in Bodu Bala Sena (BBS). […]

Political analyst Dayan Jayatilleka has recommended sending former President Chandrika Kumaratunga and General Sarath Fonseka to Parliament immediately “in order to rebalance politics and denounced impunity.’’ […]

The Speaker of the Provincial Assembly of Balochistan, Pakistan, Mr. Mir Jan Muhammad Khan Jamali, along with a group of provincial assembly members, called on President Mahinda Rajapaksa at Temple Trees this morning. […]

When people vote and elect representatives who throw paper rockets, run around towns with ‘toy’ guns, throw lavish parties to celebrate the number of women they have raped all we can say is they were democratically elected by the people of Sri Lanka. They would not be in office if people had not placed their […]

Gazettes No. 2 and 3 under the Strategic Development Projects Act were passed in Parliament today despite the Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU), a coalition party of the ruling UPFA government, voting against both bills. […]

China pledged to continue its support to Sri Lanka at U.N. forums when the country’s Vice Foreign Minister Mr. Liu Zhenmin met President Mahinda Rajapaksa at Temple Trees yesterday (April 24) evening. […]

COLOMBO – Sri Lanka has become the first South Asian country to access an innovative form of World Bank financing that provides immediate payouts after natural disasters, the organization said in a statement on Thursday. […]

UNITED NATIONS — A new U.N. report names 21 countries where rape and other sexual violence has been committed in current and recent conflicts, from Afghanistan and Central African Republic to Myanmar and Syria. […]

Hundreds of Sri Lankan opposition party members held a protest march in Colombo on Thursday, calling on the government to stop Australian gambling tycoon James Packer from opening casinos in hotel projects planned by his Crown Resorts group. […]

Why has it become customary to view affairs only from the lens of Christian West nations and through their communication channels? If the world can ask ‘why is the world ignoring Myanmar’s Rohingyas’ why can’t the world ask ‘what are the fears of the Buddhists of Burma?”. When the world does not ask this all […]

– by Janaka Alahapperuma – President Mahinda Rajapaksa emphasised, it is the responsibility of the state banks to safeguard the small entrepreneur. He reiterated that state banks also should provide loans to minor entrepreneurs in villages and upgrade them without restricting in granting loans only to entrepreneurs in Colombo. The President made these remarks this […]

Soldiers attached to the Matara 3rd Gemunu Watch today rescued two little children who were thrown 30 feet down the crocodile-infested Nilwala River from the Mahanama Bridge by their father. […]

Speaker Chamal Rajapaksa today expressed regret over the incident where a group of UNP MPs were obstructed in Tissamaharama, Hambantota the electorate of which he is the SLFP chief organizer. […]

Dubai: The authorities in Dubai have stepped up their efforts to reunite little Elina with her father Chris after reading about her plight in XPRESS even as offers to help the five-year-old keeps pouring from all corners every day. […]