Category: Local News

Sri Lanka has been taken off the UN Secretary General’s annual report on children in armed conflict, the UN announced. […]

Fishermen are requested to refrain from fishing from Mannar to Potuvil via Galle as well as from Jaffna to Trincomalee due to the prevailing strong winds, the Meteorological Department said today. […]

A businessman returning from Thailand was arrested with some gems and jewellery at the Mattala International Airport by Customs Officials today (June 11). Customs officials stated that the total value of the jewellery has not been estimated yet while investigations continue. This marks the first such arrest at Sri Lankas second international airport. […]

  – by Shenali D Waduge – On 29 July 2013 the 25th year of the signing of the Indo-Lanka Peace Accord will be marked. What did it achieve and what it did not is as important as deciding where do we in Sri Lanka want to take the Accord and the 13th amendment both […]

Less than a week after about 55 asylum-seekers perished at sea, a second major air and sea search is under way for a boatload of up to 30 Sri Lankan asylum-seekers missing for seven days near Australia. […]

Disaster Management Minister Mahinda Amaraweera said he advised the Meteorology Department to issue warnings hereafter when there is some probability of a risky situation, even if the Department cannot be 100 percent sure, and not underestimate the danger posed to the lives of people. […]

  – by Shenali D Waduge – That Mahinda Rajapakse won the 2005 Presidential election was a surprise to most and a shock to the UNP block who had figured that after over a decade, victory was to bring them back to power. That Mahinda Rajapakse came to power on the Buddhist vote was unmistakable […]

DIG Vaas Gunawardena has been arrested by the CID in connection with the abduction and murder of a businessman in Dompe, the police spokesman said. The Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) for Colombo North was earlier questioned by the Criminal Investigations Department and a statement was recorded from him. He was initially taken in […]

– by Senaka Weeraratna – No greater crime in the history of humankind can match the unrelenting and unceasing war that members of the human species are waging almost every moment of the day against members of other species for their flesh and bones. This is the biggest war of human kind being waged from […]

In the wake of the recent deaths, injuries and missing individuals as a result of the monsoon rains, President Mahinda Rajapaksa has directed Secretary to the President Mr. Lalith Weeratunga to immediately take the necessary steps to appoint a Committee of Inquiry to examine the circumstances surrounding the deaths of the fishermen and the reasons […]

– by Shenali D Waduge – It was described as a revolution ignited by a single match. June 11, 1963 was the date, Thich Quang Duc, a 66 year old Buddhist monk sat down calmly in the lotus position in a busy intersection in Saigon and lit himself on fire. While those watching wailed the […]

A catastrophic blunder of epic proportions caused by the Department of Meteorology in not providing periodic weather updates in the wee hours of Saturday, resulted in at least 35 fishing boats going missing in the Southern coastal belt, where at least eight fishermen were found dead by last night. […]

Veteran media personality, Mohan Samaranayake observed that lack of professionalism, ethics and arrogant behaviour of some journalists was hurting the media in Sri Lanka. He was of the view that if such issues are allowed to prevail, journalists and media may suffer from a decline in public trust. Citing a survey conducted by a Magazine […]

  A business delegation from the South Korean city of Busan, headed by Sri Lanka’s Honorary Consul in that country Mr. Jung-Taek Shin, called on President Mahinda Rajapaksa at Temple Trees this evening. […]

The Air Force has dispatched a helicopter to rescue missing fishermen while three bodies were washed ashore in the South and 12 fishermen were admitted to the Balapitiya hospital. […]

  – Shenali D Waduge – After 63 years of consistent denial despite overwhelming and incontrovertible evidence of British war crimes and crimes against humanity in British colonies, the wheels of justice have finally turned against Britain which has now agreed to pay £20m to 5,228 Mau Mau torture victims for crimes against humanity committed […]