Category: Local News

Canada’s first Tamil MP Rathika Sitsabaiesan says officials followed, interrogated her during a family visit to Sri Lanka and that it only took a day for her to realize she was being followed. […]

General Secretary of the Ravana Balaya, Ven. Iththekande Saddatissa Thera, filed a complaint with the police against the Bishops of Jaffna and Mannar, yesterday (16), calling for an inquiry into the false information they had provided to Stephen J. Rapp, during his recent visit to Sri Lanka. […]

The Sri Lankan government Wednesday urged the US to reconsider its position on the island nation and support efforts towards achieving reconciliation in the country. […]

India and Sri Lanka today agreed to release all the arrested fishermen in stages from today onwards, and to develop the fisheries sector through mutual engagement and co-operation, Minister Rajitha Senaratne said. […]

The US State Department’s Trafficking in Persons Report for 2013 has placed Sri Lanka in what is described as its Tier 2 Watch List. Tier 2 countries comprise those ‘countries whose governments do not fully comply with the US Trafficking Victims Protection Act’s (TVPA) minimum standards, but are making significant efforts to bring themselves into […]

FILE PHOTO – The Disaster Management Center (DMC) says that ten sluice gates of the Parakrama Samudra reservoir have been opened due to the rising water level. […]

Hirunika Premachandra, daughter of the slain Presidential Adviser and former UPFA Parliamentarian Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra said that she would never abandon her battle to bring the murderers of her father to justice. […]

Sri Lankan household workers will no longer be required to surrender their passports to their sponsors, according to a new agreement signed between Saudi Arabia and Sri Lanka on Monday. Under the agreement, the salaries of domestic workers will also be remitted to their bank accounts. The two governments signed on Monday a memorandum of […]

– by Shenali D Waduge – What Christianity/Catholicism cannot deny whatever modern day twists their biased historians and followers spin is the fact that western colonial crusaders traveled to foreign lands in Asia, Africa and North and South America to invade, subjugate and convert the indigenous natives by hook or by crook. This reality is […]

An Albino Turtle believed to be the one lost in a turtle hatchery in Kosgoda, was recovered from the house of the hatchery owner’s daughter, police sources said today. […]

FILE PHOTO – Two Chinese and a Malaysian were arrested at Kalawana last night on charges of having in their possession 12 kilos of Wallapatta. […]

– by Shenali D Waduge – When we had been thinking that the ICC was created to put on trial only African and other Third World leaders a 250 page dossier on Britains war crimes in Iraq has been submitted on 11 January 2013 to the ICC by Birmingham-based Public Interest Lawyers and the European […]

Panadura Magistrate, Ruchira Weliwatte, ordered the suspect who was remanded on charges of stealing seven bottles of whisky and a laptop computer from United National Party MP, Mangala Samaraweera’s Panadura home, be released on Rs 5,000 cash bail and Rs 25,000 personal bail on Monday (13). […]

I am pleased to extend my greetings to the Hindus of Sri Lanka who celebrate the important Thanksgiving and Harvest Festival of Thai Pongal today. […]

FILE PHOTO – The External Affairs Ministry today announced that India and Sri Lanka had begun the process of releasing fishermen trapped in Lankan jails. […]

The Sri Lankan rupee fell on Monday from its 2-1/2-month high hit in the previous session on importer dollar demand. […]