Category: Local News

The Lanka Private Bus Owners Association (LPBOA) yesterday announced that they would launch a one-day bus strike some time between April 20 – 30 if the authorities failed to increase the bus fares as requested by the bus owners. […]

  – Submitted by Walter Jayawardhana – Sri Lanka’s newly appointed Deputy High Commissioner to India has not been able to take up the post in Chennai due to a delay by Indian authorities in issuing the envoy a visa, a media report here claimed today. […]

– by Shenali Waduge – Open a Buddhist Desk at Sri Lanka External Affairs Ministry Nations and nation systems did not emerge without a history. Nations like Sri Lanka have a rich cultural and historical heritage they should not feel shy about. The modern day liberal secularists would profane a different notion but against the […]

– Submitted by Walter Jayawardhana – Sri Lankan Navy has arrested 30 more Indian fishermen for allegedly poaching in the country’s waters, taking the total number of those captured to 56 in the last two days. […]

– Submitted Walter Jayawardhana – COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s president on Sunday ordered an investigation into a mass grave dating back to a period when thousands of people disappeared during a crackdown on Marxist rebels, his spokesman said. […]

– Submitted by Walter Jayawardhana – MDMK general secretary Vaiko and New York-based Human Rights Watch made separate calls to assist 19 Tamils being readied to be deported to Colombo from the United Arab Emirates. […]

  – by Shenali Waduge – Ranil Wickremasinghe won parliamentary elections in December 2001 and within 2 months signed the ceasefire agreement placing a terrorist organization on par with a democratic government and virtually allowing the LTTE a carte blanche – an agreement like the Indo-Lanka Accord withheld from the People of Sri Lanka and […]

Decision before New Year The Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) on Friday denied reports of internal party rifts, but said members have called on the party high command to take a firm stand on the recent spate of anti-Muslim campaign and push the government to address the issue. […]

The Buddhist hardline organization Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) Friday said that the country’s fate would be changed within two months.  Addressing a press briefing held in Colombo, the secretary of BBS Ven. Galagodaaththe Gnanasara Thero said that a conference of Buddhist monks would be held soon to decide the future action. […]

– by Shenali Waduge – Winning hearts and minds of terrorists, mentality of surrender, advocating theory of “unwinnable war” and policy of appeasing, reducing the country to a pariah state, knowingly giving a terrorist organization status on par with a sovereign state and a democratic government were the characteristics of those led by Ranil Wickremasinghe […]

A file photo of Yangalmodara accident The driver and conductor of a private bus, which was driven through a closed level crossing, at Yangalmodera in Alawwa and was hit by a moving train, causing the death of 41 passengers and injuring 35 others, were yesterday sentence to death by Puttalam High Court Judge Priyantha Fernando. […]

– by Walter Jayawardhana – Professor Bharat Karnad at the Center for Policy Research has said in an op-ed piece written in the New Indian Express that the foolish attitudes of New Delhi based on the Tamil Nadu politics  has  fuelled the Sri Lankan policy in the last decade of actively courting China which, beyond […]

(Thailand) Chonburi Immigration police arrested another group of Sri Lankans using Thailand as a transit point in a human trafficking ring. Officers raided the Prima Place Hotel and an unnamed restaurant across the street from the inn, arresting Sankha Mihiruk Kumarasinghe, 31; Pradeep Chaminda Kumara Kuruppu Arachchilage, 30; Gayan Tharanga Wijerathne Rsaekanayake Wijerathne Mudiyanselage, 31; […]

Minister Mervyn Silva said that South India should not ‘awaken the lion and injure itself,’ referring to the recent events in Tamil Nadu. […]

by Shenali Waduge Some facts: · Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are now in over 30,000 food products · 92.5% of arable land around the world is GMO free · The first genetically modified food item, a tomato, appeared in the United States in 1994 and in Britain in 1996 […]

Sri Lanka has entered the ‘high human development category’ according to a report released yesterday by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) on the human development of more than 40 countries.According to the Human Development Index (HDI) monitored annually by the Human Development Report (HDR), […]