Category: Local News

US accuses countries forgetting its own use of Cluster Bombs and WMDs

– by Shenali D Waduge – “Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.” – Henry Kissinger. America cries ‘bring down dictators’ little forgetting that they vote for Presidents who do not think twice about ordering use of chemicals upon entire villages and wiping out the natives of […]



Saudi and Sri Lanka to sign labor pact today

Saudi Arabia and Sri Lanka will sign a landmark labor pact on Monday in a renewed bid to regulate hiring of domestic workers from the island nation and to ensure protection to all domestic help already employed in the Kingdom. […]



UNP moots ‘No faith’ motion against PM

The United National Party (UNP) is mooting a No Confidence motion against beleaguered Prime Minister, D.M. Jayaratne, over the allegations that his office had issued a letter to secure a duty waiver for a container, which had South Asia’s largest heroin haul concealed within. […]



India-Sri Lanka joint meet in Chennai on Jan. 20

– Union Minister V. Narayanasamy – Indian and Sri Lankan officials, along with representatives of fishermen, will meet to discuss the issues related to fishermen of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry on January 20 in Chennai, Union Minister V. Narayanasamy said on Sunday. […]




Court summons Minister Yapa

Homagama Magistrate Y.R.B. Nelundeniya issued notice on Thursday (9 January) to Minister of Investment Promotion Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena requesting his appearance in Court on Sunday (19 January) to inquire about a statement the minister had made to the Lanka newspaper in 2012 about the still missing journalist Prageeth Ekneligoda. […]




US, UK, EU and UN are a bunch of liars using office to push military interventions

– by Shenali D Waduge – The ‘civilized’ world is shamelessly showing us how uncivilized it is by the extent of hypocrisies they commit and the lies they tell without even batting an eyelid. To cap it off they think they are God’s gift to mankind and doing the world a favour. Their lies have […]



Are Wahhabis on warpath against moderate Muslim Suffi’s in Sri Lanka

– by Shenali D Waduge – It comes as no surprise when Sri Lanka is being accused of ‘attacking’ Muslims. The allegations come from the very globalists who created a brand of Islam better known as Wahhabism mandated to destroy Islam from within. Suffi’s of Sri Lanka are today under attack by the Wahhabis. Globalist […]




Ambassador Rapp tells Defence Secy: ‘Instead of rehabilitating terrorists, you should have prosecuted them’

Sri Lanka’s post-war rehabiliation project to reintegrate former LTTE combatants into society has come in for criticism from the United States. The US has faulted President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s government for releasing those who had fought for the LTTE without prosecuting them. […]




President Rajapaksa visits historic religious sites in the Old City of Jerusalem

– by Janaka Alahapperuma – President Mahinda Rajapaksa and First Lady Shiranthi Rajapaksa visited historic religious sites in the Old City of Jerusalem in Israel on Wednesday afternoon (08 January). The historic Old City is home to a number of sites sacred for the Christian, Islamic and Jewish faiths. […]



Sri Lanka to seek clarification from US re. Twitter post

External Affairs Ministry Secretary Karunatilleke Amunugama said today that the ministry would seek clarification from the United States Embassy in Colombo over a photo caption posted on social media regarding the visit of Stephen Rapp, the US Ambassador-at-large for Global Criminal Justice. […]



Vass’ bail cancelled

The bail order, issued by the Fort Magistrate, in favour of former DIG Vaas Gunawardena, in respect of charges against him arising from abusing and threatening CID officers, who carried out investigations into charges against him, was cancelled by Colombo High Court Judge Irangani Perera yesterday (9) and the suspect ordered to be remanded till […]