Category: Local News

Former Sri Lankan football chief Manilal Fernando was banned from football for life by world governing body FIFA on Wednesday after an appeal by him against an original judgement failed disastrously. […]

– by Shenali D Waduge – Mr. Stephen Harper is sadly mistaken if he thinks by raising hue and cry singling out Sri Lanka while ignoring the criminal past of Canada and the crimes of its revered ‘civilized’ Western countries especially Britain, we in Sri Lanka are concerned. With Canada’s own guilty past of treating […]

A 27 year old was killed in a shooting that took place at midnight yesterday in Dematagoda, Police said. Police added that four persons along with the deceased were shot at by an unidentified gang near the Kelaniweli railway crossing on Baseline Road. […]

– by Janaka Alahapperuma – Pix by Nalin Hewapathirana – The first flag of the flag campaign launched by the Sri Lanka Council of Visually Impaired Graduates’ Association in line with International White Cane Day was pinned on President Mahinda Rajapaksa at Tempe Trees this afternoon on 08 October. International White Cane Day will be […]

Indian Minister of External Affairs Mr. Salman Khurshid called on President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the President’s House this morning. A number of issues of mutual interest were discussed during the meeting with the underlying objective of developing strategies for the two countries to coordinate more closely towards further strengthening relations. […]

Two men including one who is suspected to be a coordinating secretary of Minister Mervyn Silva are reported to have gone missing around 5.00 a.m. today after their luxury jeep was found abandoned near the Gamini Theater Roundabout in Maradana. […]

– by Shenali D. Waduge – Sri Lanka is a Buddhist country whatever schemes are being attempted to overtly and covertly dilute and change this fact. We are well aware of these agendas. Article 9 of the Constitution guarantees foremost place to Buddhism and imposes a mandatory duty on the State not only to protect […]

Sinhalese people have this as their only country. They feel insecure that there might be some joining together of Tamil Nadu and north-eastern Sri Lanka. That insecurity, has sometimes resulted in anti-Tamil brutality but I aim to change minds on both sides, Newly sworn in Chief Minister for North CV Vigneswaran says. […]

Further strengthening the ties between India and Sri Lanka, the agreement was signed for the proposed  Sampoor coal power station in Trincomalee Monday (7) at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo. […]

(Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Monday he would not attend a November summit of the Commonwealth in Sri Lanka because of what he called human rights abuses on the island. “We remain disturbed by ongoing reports of intimidation and incarceration of political leaders and journalists, harassment of minorities, reported disappearances, and […]

Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott says he has no intention of following Canada’s leader in boycotting next month’s Commonwealth summit in Sri Lanka because of human rights concerns. […]

Tamil National Alliance (TNA) leaders will urge India to push the Sri Lankan government to fully implement the 13th Amendment, in their meeting with External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid. […]

– By Janaka Alahapperuma – Pix by: Sudath Silva – The newly elected Northern Province Chief Minister C.V. Vigneswaran was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Northern Province before President Mahinda Rajapaksa at 9.30 am this morning (07 October) at Temple Trees. He took oaths as a member of the northern provincial council and […]

The TNA’s Norther Province Chief Minister elect, C.V. Wigneswaran, opting to be sworn in before President Mahinda Rajapaksa was an unjust decision, Tamil lawyers said yesterday. […]

  Even as some of the world’s most troubled hotspots have countries maintain a year-round travel advisory for its citizens, several Dubai-based Asian expats claimed surprise that Sri Lanka, Nepal and Pakistan made it to the list of the worst passports to travel with in a recent study. […]

  – by Shenali D. Waduge – A moral imperative is a principle originating inside a person’s mind that compels that person to act. It is similar to categorical imperative as expounded by German Philosopher Immanuel Kant who took the imperative to be a dictate of pure reason, in its practical aspect. Not following the […]