Category: Local News

A new luxury air-conditioned train service from Colombo Fort to the newly commissioned Palai Railway Station will set off at 2.45 this afternoon, the Railway Department said. […]

Minister of External Affairs Prof. G. L. Peiris has said that the highly prejudiced actions by sections of the international community and the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to give disproportionate attention to Sri Lanka had only made the separatist diaspora Tamil elements and their proxies in the north more intransigent, […]

Customs officials seized 36kg of heroin concealed within a container which was declared to contain iron materials. […]

Sri Lanka is destroying about 130 tons of Fonterra milk powder, Fonterra says it’s got nothing to do with it being tainted. Earlier there were concerns about tiny quantities of DCD, a nitrate inhibitor used to curb greenhouse gas emissions from farming. […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa and Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai held bilateral discussions at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo this morning, and during the talks, President Karzai commended President Rajapaksa for achieving peace in the country. […]

Describing the draft resolution on war crimes in Sri Lanka tabled by the US, UK, Mauritius and Macedonia as ‘disappointing’, DMK leader M Karunanidhi on Wednesday urged the Union government to move a separate resolution seeking independent, international inquiry into alleged war crimes. […]

Houses of Commissioner General of Excise Department Vasantha Hapuarachchi in Pamunugama and OIC of Special Investigations Unit Ranjan Fernando of Excise Department in Rukmalgama came under fire in the early hours today, when unidentified gunmen opened fire using automatic rifles, police said. […]

Nishantha Ranatunga has been appointed as the Chairman cum Chief Executive Officer of Mihin Lanka with immediate effect, a Civil Aviation Ministry official said. […]

When public sentiments against international public officials are voiced internationally there is an urgent need to investigate why the world public should openly find an international public official unsuitable. Thus, the UN Secretary General is duty bound to listen and in the least hold an impartial inquiry to ascertain the grounds on which people in […]

The suspect accused of hacking to death two Buddhist monks of the Kotte Rajamaha Viharaya was granted bail by the Colombo High Court. […]

A group of Catholic priests and Rev. sisters from the Northern and eastern provinces has urged the Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to adopt a strong and action oriented resolution on Sri Lanka. […]

The hype behind the US sponsored third resolution against Sri Lanka looks to be frizzling out with US/UK and India managing to get as co-sponsors nations that would hardly constitute power bases. Thus the 2 world bullies and their stooge together with Montenegro, Macedonia and Mauritius have placed the 1st draft forward. Nations of the UNHRC are […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh held bilateral discussions this afternoon on the sidelines of the BIMSTEC Summit in Myanmar. […]

On 8th September 1951, 51 nations gathered at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco to officially end World War 2 and to formally end Japan’s position as an imperial power, and to allocate compensation to Allied civilians and former prisoners of war who had suffered Japanese war crimes. Powerful nations objected to Japan being set up as […]

Text of full speech: His Excellency Thein Sein, President of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and Chairman of the Third BIMSTEC Summit Excellencies Ladies and gentlemen As we meet today, at the Third BIMSTEC Summit after a period of five years, it is timely to reflect on the Group’s achievements, and deliberate to […]

The Christian Inquisition in Europe, Goa and other parts of the Portuguese Empire of Asia including Sri Lanka, goes down in history as one of the most horrible crimes against humanity. The Inquisition launched by the Vatican, Catholic Church, civil authorities of Spain and Portugal paved the way for a brutal legal system in most […]