Category: Local News

The Indian Coast Guard (ICG) will repatriate on Monday 140 of the 172 Tamil Nadu fishermen held in Sri Lankan prisons for about two months and released a couple of days ago, clearing the decks for the second round of talks between representatives of Indian and Sri Lankan fishermen on March 24 in Colombo. […]

Borella Police OIC Prasad Siriwardhana who was admitted to the Avissawella Hospital following a mishap during a stand off in Hanwella, succumbed to his injuries a while ago, the Police said. […]

When 96% of world media is owned by 6 companies we do not need to go far to conclude the nature of biased coverage. The fact that media houses are owned by a handful has gone to show that we cannot trust the coverage being relayed. In Sri Lanka’s case all that we ask is […]

FILE PHOTO The Borella Police OIC had been admitted to the Avissawella Hospital following a mishap during a stand off in in Hanwella, the Police said. […]

The Second Phase of the Southern Expressway from Pinnaduwa in Galle to Godagama in Matara was declared open by President Mahinda Rajapaksa followed by religious observances at the Pinnaduwa interchange. […]

The incident of a former LTTEr living in an Indian-built home in Kilinochchi shooting a Sri Lankan policemen during a search operation cannot be ignored. In the 1970s Prabakaran had just 26 men and over a handful of decades later that number turned into thousands and led to thousands of corpses and a brutal terrorist […]

The second phase of the Southern Expressway will be opened today.  Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa will declare open the second phase of the Southern Expressway from Pinnaduwa in Galle to Godagama in Matara today (15) at 3 p.m. […]

Now that Ananthi Sasitharan is in Geneva she needs to be given the podium to explain how her husband on behalf of the LTTE recruited young children denied them every human right a child is entitled to and trained them not only to kill but to commit suicide by biting a cyanide capsule that Adele […]

The Sri Lankan rupee edged up on Friday from its near two-week low as banks sold dollars amid lack of importer dollar demand, dealers said. […]

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa declared here on Thursday that the next round of talks between the fishermen of Tamil Nadu and Sri Lanka would be held only after all the fishermen from Tamil Nadu and their boats were released by the Sri Lankan Government. (The second round of talks scheduled for Thursday was called […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa has alleged that those seeking to destabilise the country were now accusing the government of causing religious tensions. […]

Sri Lanka will be hosting the next International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP) Sept. 18- 21, 2014, with the opening ceremony scheduled to take place Sept. 19. […]

A real estate agent whose wife is expecting their first child has been stabbed to death outside his real estate business in Sydney’s west. […]

Eight Sri Lankan tourists were Wednesday injured, including a woman in critical condition, on Yamuna Expressway as their mini bus in which they were travelling collided with a truck, police said. […]

The US National Security Agency is tasked prevent terrorism but why would Obama administration need to use Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, Apple, YouTube and other web-based services gaining access to over 59,000 user accounts, monitoring phone calls, bugging buildings even watching people type on their pcs? Moreover, since when did the US administration start thinking […]

Urging the public to vote the UNP into power at the forthcoming Western and Southern Provincial Council Elections,the party’s National Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe said that the people including the armed forces had been given a raw deal by the government. […]