Category: Local News

Some UNP supporters who were present at a meeting at Waikkal, Wennappuwa, booed at Minister Mervyn Silva on Wednesday (18), when he happened to go past the venue of the meeting, which had been organized by the Leader of the Opposition, Ranil Wickremesinghe. […]

(Reuters) – Voters in northern Sri Lanka go to the polls on Saturday in a provincial election that threatens to stir up old animosity between the government and ethnic minority Tamils. Defeat for the government of President Mahinda Rajapaksa would be largely symbolic, but victory for the main Tamil party could reignite calls for autonomy. […]

Election propaganda activities pertaining to the Northern, Central and North Western Provincial Council polls ended from midnight yesterday (18). […]

– by Shenali D Waduge  – A question on everyone’s mind is whether TNA would be able to achieve what Prabakaran could not and why the Government that stopped Prabakaran would allow an Eelam to emerge under its defacto political party the TNA? The answer to that question is not as easy to conclude which […]

The Consumer Affairs Authority (CAA) made the biggest raid in its history when officers recovered a huge consignment of expired food items which could be worth nearly Rs 100 million from a large storage in Kotahena yesterday. […]

– by Shenali D Waduge – President Obama and his Government, in fact even the Republicans appear far more concerned about deaths of Syrians in Syria by rebels that the US and Allies are arming, training financing and even feeding than the disaster situation unfolding across Colorado where 1300 Americans remain missing, 1502 residential structures […]

HT: Mr. Rajapaksa, in May 2009, your government and army managed to do something all previous governments in Sri Lanka had failed to do: end the 30-year-long civil war – one of the most brutal in the world – and decimate the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). What did you and your army do […]

The first killing related to the forthcoming provincial council election was reported from Puthukuduirippu, in Mullaitivu when a supporter of the UPFA was clubbed to death by other UPFA supporters on Monday night, sources said. […]

UPFA Chief Ministerial aspirant and former UNP MP Dayasiri Jayasekara yesterday warned that there could be a ‘computer Jilmaat’ when the votes were counted after the forthcoming PC polls in the Nortthwestern Province. […]

  – by Shenali D Waduge – Tamil National Alliance leaders headed by R. Sambandan, Abraham Sumanthiran and Chief Ministerial Candidate Wigneswaran have gone on the defensive all of a sudden. This itself reveals that things are not going so smoothly on the TNA camp or campaign trail. […]

Former Police DIG Vaas Gunawardena has been granted bail over charges of soliciting a bribe to release a suspect in the murder case of Kelaniya PS member Hasitha Madawala. […]

At least four people were killed and more than 36 injured in three separate accidents at Dambulla last night. Police said three persons travelling on a motorbike were killed when the bike collided with a lorry in the Dambulla town. […]

The Defence Ministry has called for a full report on the three soldiers who searched the lorry parked near the Kotahena police since 1996, after the detection of 120 kilos of TNT explosives secreted in its chassis last week. […]

  – by Shenali D. Waduge – Unless and until anyone can prove that ethnic animosities between the Sinhalese Buddhists and Tamil Hindus had prevailed throughout Sri Lanka’s history there is no compelling need to use uncritically western concepts such as ‘reconciliation’. […]

The train service on the reconstructed Northern railway line began operations from Omanthai to Kilinochchi, after 23 years Saturday (14). Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa launched the ‘Yal Devi’ train service  that departed from Omanthai, travelling as the first passenger   and arrived in  the former LTTE strong-hold, Kilinochchi. […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa inaugurated the Chunnakam Grid substation connecting the Jaffna peninsula with the national grid after a lapse of two decades, Saturday (14) evening. […]