– by Shenali D Waduge – Making the keynote address at the 3rd consecutive Sri Lanka Army organized ‘Defence Seminar-2013 on the theme ‘Post-Conflict Sri Lanka: Challenges and Regional Stability’, held from 3rd to 5th September at the Galadari Hotel, Colombo, Secretary Defence Mr. Gotabaya Rajapaksa delivered a spectacular and visonary speech to the more […]
The Ceylon Electricity Board’s (CEB) decision to shut down the Bowatenne Hydro Power Plant (BHPP) for one month for maintenance work on the heels of maintenance being carried out on the Norochcholai Coal Power Plant (NCPP), will cost the CEB a massive loss of Rs 86 million a day. […]
– by Shenali D. Waduge – There is little doubt that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (now re-named as Ministry of External Affairs) plays an important role in the way the international community looks at Sri Lanka. Similarly, it falls upon the shoulders of the Ministry to conduct foreign affairs of the country in a […]
– by Shenali D Waduge – It is getting a wee bit tiring to have supposed leaders think that electing them to office gives them a right to declare wars and military interventions without any aggression to their own nations and sending troops to a hotbed of chaos much of which have been orchestrated by […]
– by Shenali D Waduge – Would anyone imagine that a Tamil would say that Tamils were pinching themselves still because they did not believe that the LTTE could be defeated? Would a Tamil say that Tamils thought that LTTE would be revived months after its demise? Would a Tamil say that Tamils were […]
Two Sri Lankans who carried out an “execution-style” murder in retribution for a love affair have been jailed for life terms of at least 17 years. The two men were convicted at a trial in July, with the jury finding them both guilty of what the Crown described as “an execution-style” slashing of the throat […]
Sri Lanka won an award for Best Travel Destination of Cantonese, based on online voting by the readers of the Southern Metropolis Newspaper. The award was presented to the Consulate General on the opening day of the China (Guangdong) International Tourism Industry Expo 2013 (CITE 2013), a one-stop platform for the travel trade, which took […]
COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s government criticized the U.N.’s top human rights official on Wednesday for calling attention to accusations that police and soldiers had harassed people who met her during a visit to the country’s former war zones. Navi Pillay, ending a mission to assess Sri Lanka’s progress after a 26-year war between the […]
(Reuters) – Sri Lanka, under heavy pressure to end human rights abuses four years after the end of a brutal civil war with Tamil Tiger rebels, said on Tuesday it faced a new threat of terrorism and Muslim extremism. The comments came three days after U.N. Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay said people were still suffering […]
Sri Lanka on Tuesday dismissed UN Human Rights chief Navi Pillay’s sharp criticism of the country’s human rights record as “prejudiced”. In her statement, Pillay had attacked the Sri Lankan government of becoming increasingly authoritarian and claimed that Sri Lankans who chose to speak to her during her week-long fact-finding mission to the country were […]