Category: Local News

National Security Adviser Shivshankar Menon — who met top Sri Lanka leaders here in the last two days — emphasised the need for Colombo to fulfil its commitment to India and the international community regarding a political settlement that would go beyond the 13th Amendment of the country’s Constitution. […]

FILE PHOTO After almost three years in the hands of pirates at an anchorage close to the Somali Coast, the Malaysian flagged freighter, MV Albedo, with the crew including six Sri Lankan, has sunk in rough seas, foreign media said. […]

A Common Man won three awards — Best Film, Best Director and Best Actor — at the Madrid International Film Festival yesterday. […]

– by: Nicholas Dias Abeyesinghe, Cer.Ed.,DRTE.,MIMI. – Your Eminence, I am writing in response to the Report of your recently held Bishops’ Conference as reported by the media.  The Report appeals to His Excellency President Mahinda Rajapksa: Not to repeal the 13th amendment to the Constitution of the Socialist Democratic Republic of Sri Lanka Not […]

A suspected Indian Mujahideen member, who was arrested yesterday from the Nadia district in West Bengal, will be questioned over whether he had any role to play in the multiple blasts that rocked the Mahabodhi temple in Bihar’s Bodhgaya yesterday morning. […]

The Sri Lankan government advised its citizens against visiting the Mahabodhi Temple in Bihar’s Bodhgaya district of India during the next week. […]

Thousands of commuters are stranded Island wide today due to a 48-hour railway strike launched by the Railways Professional Trade Union Alliance (RPTUA) since midnight on Sunday over salary anomalies. […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa has condemned the explosions that took place in Bodh Gaya shrine in Bihar, India, today. Please find below the full text of President Rajapaksa’s message. […]

The President of Maldives, Dr. Mohamed Waheed accompanied by First Lady Ilham Hussain and a business delegation arrived in Sri Lanka on a two-day working visit. […]

  – by Shenali D Waduge – The former supreme allied commander of NATO during the Kosovo War General Wesley Clark revealed to Amy Goodman in an interview in March 2007 that US planned in 2001 to take down 7 countries in 5 years starting off with Iraq. The 7 nations are Iraq. Libya, Somalia, […]

(Reuters) – Sri Lanka will hold provincial elections in the former northern war zone in September for the first time in 25 years, officials said on Friday, a move demanded by the United Nations since the end of three decades of conflict in 2009. But Northern Province, which includes the Jaffna peninsula, has been under […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday issued a proclamation calling for the holding of elections to the Northern Provincial Council. Commissioner General of Elections Mahinda Deshapriya was officially notified about this yesterday, said Presidential Spokesman and senior journalist Mohan Samaranayake. […]

  – by Shenali D Waduge – The global food industry is huge and includes local and international regulation for food production and sale, food safety, R&D, financial services, education, food processing, agriculture, wholesale and distribution, transportation and logistics, manufacturing and marketing. Over years, the consumers have been fooled in many ways by these very […]

Police reported that 33 persons were injured in a collision between a bus and a SUV in the Ahangama area this morning (July 5). […]

Democratic Party (DP) leader Gen. Sarath Fonseka is confident of mustering the northerners’ support for the unitary character of the state. […]

– by Shenali D Waduge – Is there any need to go through the rigmarole of entertaining Indian envoys when Sri Lanka’s President has already sent his envoy to appraise India of the country’s decision on the 13th amendment? For what purpose do we need to be begging to India to understand why the nation […]