Category: Local News

Objectively compare our nation’s steady progress today with the situation where we were five or six years ago, President Mahinda Rajapaksa said yesterday at the presentation ceremony of the Finance and Planning Ministry’s Annual Report 2013, held at MILODA Academy of Financial Studies in Colombo. He said the government’s discussions on development issues went beyond […]

NEW DELHI: India has agreed to release 85 Sri Lankan fishermen who are lodged in different jails in Odisha and Andhra Pradesh. This was conveyed to Sri Lanka president Mahinda Rajapaksa when he met Prime Minister Narendra Modi here on Tuesday morning. In a good will gesture, the Sri Lankan government had released all the […]

Mobile Service Providers have asked mobile phone users to get their connections registered in their names. This was done at the behest of the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (TRC). […]

Three most wanted LTTE leaders arrested by the Malaysian Police, on a request by the Sri Lanka Police under Red Notice, were brought to the country by a special Sri Lanka Police team that visited Malaysia. […]

An International Monetary Fund (IMF) delegation was currently in Sri Lanka to monitor the government’s agreement with it to abolish free education but a future UNP administration would abrogate all such treaties with global organizations, Opposition Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe said yesterday. […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa and new Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met for bilateral talks this morning at the Hyderabad House in New Delhi, India, where the President was warmly welcomed by the Prime Minister. […]

Praising new Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “inspirational qualities of leadership”, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa said yesterday that Colombo was one with New Delhi against terrorism. […]

The Jathika Hela Urumaya, which met Ven. Maduluwawe Sobhitha Thera yesterday, has warned that there could be serious repercussions if changes are made to the Executive Presidency, without reforming the country’s electoral system. […]

Delhi Police on Monday arrested MDMK chief Vaiko as he was leading a protest against Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s arrival in New Delhi for the swearing-in ceremony of India’s 15th Prime Minister Narendra Modi. […]

Helicopter debris suspect to belong to the Sri Lankan Air Force have been found north of the Mullaitivu seas. […]

Having presented a set of proposals reforms to President Mahinda Rajapaksa at Temple Trees on Saturday, National Freedom Front (NFF) leader, Wimal Weerawansa said yesterday that it would quit the ruling coalition if the government involved foreign powers to facilitate talks with the five-party Tamil National Alliance (TNA). […]

KUALA LUMPUR: Police arrested three foreign men suspected to be members of the Sri Lankan Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) terrorist group in Selangor. […]

Leader of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA), R. Sampanthan, while extending his warmest congratulations to India’s new government led by Narendra Modi, sought Indian assistance in establishing peace in Sri Lanka. In a letter sent to Modi, Sampanthan says, “We look forward to work closely with you and your government to further strengthen genuine ties […]

Sri Lanka’s powerful Finance Secretary Dr. P B Jayasundera is to be removed from the additional post of Secretary to the Ministry of Economic Development, according to sources. […]

The Indian Prime Minister designate Narendra Modi should urge the visiting Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa to cooperate with UN-led investigation into alleged serious violations and abuses of human rights and related crimes committed during the country’s civil war, Amnesty International India said on Friday. […]

The 2011 EPF accounts which were presented to Parliament on Wednesday has only a qualified opinion from the Auditor General (AG) which indicated that he was not satisfied with the incomplete information that had been provided, the UNP said yesterday. […]