Category: Local News

The Supreme Court will take up for inquiry the Fundamental Rights petition filed before it by Northern Provincial Council Chief Secretary Ms. Vijayalaskmi Ramesh seeking to prevent Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswaran from interfering, and attempting to discontinue her from her post as Chief Secretary since the day he assumed office as CM, on July 24. […]

March 24 – Sri Lanka is maintaining its 7.8 percent economic growth target for this year despite a lingering drought because it thinks falling lending rates could spur investment, the country’s treasury secretary said on Monday. […]

  “ Slaughter every man, woman, and child (including babes suckling at the breast)” were the orders given by Governor Robert Brownrigg (3rd British Governor of Ceylon from 1813 – 1820) to Maj. Gen. Hay MacDowell in 1818 that left the people in the agriculturally rich grain growing region of Uva-Wellassa of then Ceylon in […]

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razar said Monday that a new analysis of electronic data shows that the missing Malaysian airlines with 239 people aboard went down in a remote area of the Indian ocean and indicated there were no survivors. […]

The Coalition government is continuing to sidestep whether it will support an international investigation into war crimes in Sri Lanka, despite Labor and the Greens now both backing it. […]

The Matara Chief Magistrate today issued an arrest warrant on Southern Province UPFA candidate Krishantha Pushpakumara, popularly known as Raththaran, for failing to appear before the court. […]

Former Weligama Pradeshiya Sabha Chairman Dikkumburage Kulaweera was produced in Court and remanded on charges of having sexually harassed a 22-year-old Sweden woman at tourist hotel in Pelana, Weligama. […]

Sri Lanka on Wednesday claimed that most of the 47 member countries of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) are under pressure to back a malicious US-sponsored resolution that has called for an international probe into alleged rights abuses during the country’s war with the LTTE, according to international media reports. “Countries have told us […]

Two main suspects in the murder of SP Prasad Siriwardena, the former office-in-charge (OIC) of the Borella Police Station, have been arrested by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) today, police spokesman SSP Ajith Rohana said. […]

LONDON: Britain will vote for an international, independent investigation into alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka. British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Friday it will vote in favour of the resolution on Sri Lanka at the upcoming United Nations Human Rights Council that has been moved by the US. […]

President of the Amadyapa Movement, Ven.Dr. Harispaththuwe Ariyawansalankara Thero (74) of the Vipassana Meditation Centre, Colombo passed away at a private hospital after prolonged illness this morning. […]

Five police officers including the officer-in-charge (OIC) of the Giriulla Police Station have been suspended over the unlawful detention of a youth for over a month. […]

Sri Lanka yesterday said it has no plans to release 74 Indian fishermen and the 18 boats seized on Wednesday, before the proposed Colombo Talks next Tuesday (25), despite Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa Jeyaram categorically stating that there will be no talks if the fishermen are not released. […]

Secretary to the President Mr. Lalith Weeratunga, in a letter to Former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, has responded to the accusations put forward by her toward the Government of harassment through illegal surveillance. […]

The Abbott government is resisting a push by its closest allies to establish a United Nations investigation into war crimes and human rights abuses in Sri Lanka, where Australia has returned more than 1100 failed asylum seekers in the past 18 months. […]

Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Thursday said the next round of talks between Tamil Nadu and Sri Lankan fishermen, scheduled for March 25, can take place only if all the Indian fishermen apprehended by the Sri Lankan Navy on Wednesday are released. […]