Category: Local News

Police Special Task Force (STF) personnel have arrested five suspects and confiscated a haul of ‘Kerala Ganja’ worth over Rs 10 million. […]

Opposition and United National Party (UNP) Leader, Ranil Wickremesinghe, has removed UNP Members of Parliament, Sajith Premadasa and Karu Jayasuriya off the list of speakers, who are listed to address election meetings in the North-Western and Central Provinces. […]

  – by Shenali D Waduge – It’s getting a little tiresome hearing speeches and reading diplomatic statements that claim Sri Lanka is a friend of India’s. In our dictionary a friend does not act like a traitor but India’s dictionary is obviously different. What friend would secretly create terrorists on Indian soil that has […]

Nine persons including the Inter University Students Federation (IUSF) Convener, Sanjeewa Bandara, who were arrested for disregarding police orders and organizing a demonstration, have been released on bail today. […]

  President Mahinda Rajapaksa has sent a message of condolence to Chinese President Xi Jinping following the earthquake that struck in the Gansu Province in northwestern China on Monday, July 22, 2013. […]

  – by Shenali D Waduge – When Hitler and the Nazi’s were defeated by the Allied Troops (UK, US, France and Soviet Union) a policy of Denazification took place. The objective was to totally eliminate any ideology associated with Nazism. World War 2 ended in 1945 and immediately thereafter the program of Denazification began. […]

Holding that there was no change in India’s stand on the issue of reconciliation and devolution of political powers to ethnic Tamils in Sri Lanka, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has informed Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa that New Delhi will work towards ensuring that Tamils are “masters of their own destiny within framework of a united […]

Outgoing MP Dayasiri Jayasekara yesterday said the government would continue to win all elections for more than 10 years without any challenge. He revealed that resisting sexual harassment was the main reason that forced him to leave the UNP. (Please see box story). […]

UNP MP Dayasiri Jayasekara said that he would be making a special statement in parliament today at 2. 00 PM and inform of his resignation from parliament and thereafter will contest for the Chief Ministerial Post on the UPFA ticket. […]

The husband of the Navodya Maha Vidyalaya teacher — who was allegedly asked to kneel in the presence of former provincial councillor Ananda Sarath Kumara — had in a police complaint said Mr. Kumara had threatened him and his wife. […]

  – by Shenali D Waduge – “One night with Venus and a lifetime with Mercury” aptly describes the unfolding events taking place in Sri Lanka given the Government policy decision to embrace the pomp and pageantry to hold the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Sri Lanka in preference to rejecting the 13th […]

A number of vehicles have been damaged as a result of trees toppling over due to strong winds that were experienced in the areas surrounding the Colombo National Hospital, CR & FC, De Saram Mawatha and Stafford Mawatha in Kirulapone at around 7 this morning (23), Deputy Media Director of the Disaster Management Centre (DMC) […]

  – by Shenali D Waduge – Now that the latest tactic to embarrass Sri Lanka and belittle its war victory has been outsourced to filmmakers it is time that Sri Lanka does not just sit and take the flak without adequately responding on the offensive itself. In not responding we are not giving due […]

An electoral organizer of the United National Party, Thushara Hemachandra who reportedly assaulted and bit the nose of an individual during a wedding reception in Attanagalla is to be presented to court today (July 22). […]

UNP Kurunegala District MP Dayasiri Jayasekera, who has fallen out with the party leadership yesterday said he would never leave the UNP to join the government. […]

  – by Shenali D Waduge – Here’s the simply logic. Anyone fleeing a country using internationally accepted key words to justify their right to be termed a “refugee” must surely run to the closest country for that safety. What is that country – it is India. Why is India not only the closest and […]