Category: Local News

Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK) chief Vaiko met Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Monday and said that the latter has promised attention to issues of minorities and Sri Lankan Tamil issue. […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa will be in China this week for the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA). The President is expected to address the Conference, which, this year, is being organized under the theme “Strengthening the Trust and Cooperation and Building a Peaceful and Stable New Asia .” […]

(Reuters) – Minority ethic Tamils said on Sunday they had been banned from commemorating the deaths of their relatives five years ago in the final battle of a 26-year war with Sri Lanka’s military, a charge denied by the army. While President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who is under international pressure to investigate war crimes in the […]

The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna had a special meeting with Ven. Maduluwawe Sobhitha Thero on Sunday. […]

The United National Party (UNP) will present a no-confidence motion, against the government, in which they will also reveal the names of three prominent parliamentarians and one minister linked to the distribution of heroin. […]

Sri Lanka President Rajapaksa addressing the nation at the fifth anniversary Vicgtory Day celebrations said, that the great victory achieved by the security forces through great sacrifice of lives must be preserved and remembered by all. […]

The main suspect arrested  in connection with the abduction and murder of a Police Constable in Kurunegala was killed during a confrontation with Police at Ududumbara last night, Police said. […]

The fifth Victory Day celebrations will be held today on a grand scale in Samudra Mawatha, Matara. Troops of the Tri Services, police and Civil Defence Service personnel, Mechanised Columns and differently-abled soldiers in wheelchairs will take part in the parade. […]

A total of 17 university students have been arrested today during a protest in front of the University Grants Commission (UGC) in Colombo. […]

The Vice Chairman of China’s Central Military Commission Air Chief Marshal Xu Qiliang called on President Mahinda Rajapaksa this evening (16) at Temple Trees. The purpose of his visit, Mr. Xu said, is to further enhance the “strategic mutual trust” between China and Sri Lanka and  to elevate “relations between the two countries and the […]

The Ministry of Home Affairs has extended the ban on Liberations Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) for another five years, describing the Sri Lanka-based outfit as a terrorist organisation that is “likely to impact VVIP security adversely in India.” India had banned LTTE after the assassination of former PM Rajiv Gandhi in 1991. […]

Dangerous suspect: Special Branch officers taking the suspected terrorist into custody. Photo courtesy the Star The Malaysian Bukit Aman Special Branch counter-terrorism division has helped thwart a planned attack on foreign consulates in India with the arrest of four suspected terrorists including a Sri Lankan. […]

Two people were injured when Police opened fire on a three-wheeler which had sped away defying police orders in Wadduwa on the Gale Road last night, police said. […]

– by Janaka Alahapperuma – British Prime Minister, David Cameron, sends his best wishes to all Buddhists celebrating Vesak on May 14, 2014. This is the first time Mr Cameron has issued a Vesak message since he assumed office in May, 2010. […]

The JMO of the Karapitiya Hospital, Dr L.H. Dhammi Gunasekera, giving evidence before the Colombo High Court in the Khuram Sheik’ murder trial on Monday, said that his examination of Victoria Alexandria, the girlfriend of Khuram Sheik showed that she had recently been raped and sexually assaulted by the assailants. […]

We celebrate the triple festival of Vesak that commemorates the Birth, Enlightenment and Parinirvana of the Buddha with State sponsorship that marks the great veneration and devotion of the people. […]