Category: Local News

A couple died when the van they were travelling, plunged from a bridge close to the Baddegama interchange on the Southern Expressway yesterday morning. The victims were identified as Piyasena Rubasinghe, 77, elder brother of former Information Director and President’s Media Coordinator Ariya Rubasinghe and his wife Chandra, 60. […]

Railway trade unions have decided to temporarily suspended their scheduled strike from midnight today, demanding a pay raise, after discussion with transport authorities. […]

– Submitted by Walter Jayawardhana – Beijing: Sri Lanka and India have had more talks on issues relating to the Maritime Boundary Line dividing both countries, the Sri Lanka Navy said on Friday. […]

Duminda Silva who left Nawaloka Hospital a short while ago went straight to President’s House to meet President Mahinda Rajapaksa, a private radio channel that belongs to his brother said. […]

  – by Shenali Waduge – The decision to hold the 23rd Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting or CHOGM in Sri Lanka was endorsed by a proposal made in 2009 by the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown at the CHOGM summit held in Trinidad and Tobago. But in an “All together chorus” the bandwagon of […]

  They plundered nations of Africa, Asia and Latin America. They divided nations and people. They ransacked nations, brutally murdered and quelled every effort made by indigenous people to safeguard their lands from Western European intruders. They did this carrying the Bible in one hand and the sword in the other. They left these nations […]

Two Japanese naval ships, Akebono DD- 108 and Hamagiri DD- 155, arrived at the Port of Colombo for logistics requirements on 25th April 2013. The ships were en route for Counter Piracy Operations off the Coast of Somaliya and in the Gulf of Aden. They were welcomed by the Sri Lanka Navy in accordance with […]

– by Shenali Waduge – Press-titutes is a term coined by Gerald Celente combining the words Press + Prostitute and has been defined by the Urban Dictionary as “a member of the media who will alter their story and reporting based on financial interests or other ties with usually partisan individuals or groups”. An alternate […]

– Submitted by Walter Jayawardhana – OTTAWA – The NDP is putting pressure on the Harper government to boycott this year’s Commonwealth summit in Sri Lanka as a protest against the country’s human rights record. […]

(Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s state-run electricity board will show a roughly 45 billion rupee ($355 million) loss in 2013, a government spokesman said, although it has raised tariffs in response to International Monetary Fund (IMF) requests. Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) last week increased the power tariff significantly with effect from this month under reforms to […]

The candlelight protest conducted by the main Opposition, United National Party (UNP), against the revised electricity tariffs turned Parliament into a mini battlefield yesterday. […]

– Submitted by Walter Jayawardhana – THE Law Society of South Africa on Tuesday came out in support of a resolution by Commonwealth lawyers calling for the suspension of Sri Lanka, which is due to host the 54-nation body’s next summit meeting, in November. […]

Duminda Silva who is the 11th respondent of the case pertaining to the killing of Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra and four others, was granted bail by the Colombo high court Wednesday. […]

The UNP yesterday proposed in Parliament that a full day be allocated for a debate on the unprecedented electricity tariff increase. […]

An ancient Buddhist artefact discovered being used as a doorstep and valued at £30,000 has been sold for more than £500,000. The granite relic was given to Bronwen Hickmott’s parents by a tea planter who returned to Britain from Sri Lanka in the 1950s. […]

– by Janaka Alahapperuma – (Pix by: Sudath Silva) The Foreign Secretary of Bangladesh Mr. Md. Shahidul Haque reassured the support of Bangladeshi Government to Sri Lanka at international fora during his current tour in Sri Lanka. The visiting Foreign Secretary made this pledge when he called on President Mahinda Rajapaksa this morning (23 April) […]