Category: Local News

Pakistani Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani NI (M) HI paid a courtesy call to the Secretary, Ministry of Defence Mr. Gotabaya Rajapaksa, this afternoon (28th June) at the Ministry of Defence and Urban Development premises. […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa commencing his five-day state visit to Tanzania and Seychelles arrived in Tanzania from the Julius Nyerere International Airport this morning (June 27). […]

North Western Provincial Council member, Ananda Sarath Kumara who was remanded for ordering a female teacher to kneel before him was granted bail by Anamaduwa Magistrate’s court today […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa left this morning on a five-day state visit to Tanzania and Seychelles. Not only will this be President Rajapaksa’s first visit to both countries, but it will also be the first visit of any Sri Lankan president. It is a part of President Rajapaksa’s vision of further strengthening South-South cooperation. […]

– by Shenali D Waduge – No post – independent Government won as much global plaudits for Sri Lanka’s foreign policy as during the time when Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike was Prime Minister. The country witnessed a string of foreign policy successes one after the other mainly during her first two terms of office i.e. 1960 – […]

  – by Shenali D Waduge – The Financial Times has posted an article by Gideon Rachman who claims that foreign leaders should feel sick about accepting hospitality from a government whose human rights records are grim.  Rachman goes on to say that the “sins” of the Sri Lankan Government are not merely being ignored […]

Political parties and Tamil outfits will stage protests if the Centre continues to impart training to officials of the Sri Lankan defence forces at Defence Services Staff College at Wellington in the Nilgiris, said Vaiko, general secretary of the Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (MDMK) on Tuesday. […]

At least six people were killed and several others injured when a van collided with a train at a railway crossing near the Aluthgama Railway Station yesterday evening. […]

Former DIG Vaas Gunawardena was further remanded until July 9 by the Colombo Magistrate Court after he was arrested in connection with the murder of a businessman in Dompe. […]

A bus transporting garment factory workers and two carrying members of the public collided early this morning at  Habaraduwa Galle, injuring 16 people the police said […]

The UK expressed its deep disappointment at the fact that trial proceedings have not yet commenced on the murder of British citizen Khuram Shaikh and the assault on his partner Victoria in Tangalle even 18 months after the incident. […]

Ministry of Private Transport Services will hold discussions with private bus owners regarding the annual revision of bus fares at the National Transport Commission (NTC) today (24). […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday placed the Sacred Relics of the Buddha in the Sanda Hiru Seya Stupa being constructed in Anuradhapura, dedicated to War Heroes who made the supreme sacrifice on behalf of the nation. The Sanda Hiru Seya close to the Sacred Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi is the first of nine such Stupas to […]

COLOMBO (AFP) – Sri Lanka’s president has scrapped a contentious code of conduct for journalists after editors and rights groups condemned it as a further blow to press freedom, government and media sources said Sunday. […]

COLOMBO, June 21 (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s rupee hit a more than six-month low in early trade on Friday on dollar demand for equity-related transactions, but late exporter selling of the greenback helped the currency to hold ground, dealers said. […]

  – by Cricket Observer – When the odds were mounting against Sri Lanka in the second semi – final match of the ICC Champions Trophy played between India v Sri Lanka at Cardiff on June 20, 2013, both Mahela Jayawardene and Angelo Mathews successfully reviewed two close lbw calls each, and survived for a […]