Category: Local News

(Reuters) – Sri Lanka will start storing bunker fuel at the $1.5 billion Hambantota port in June, a senior official said, after years of delays to the Chinese-built installation that sits on strategic shipping lanes, and a key step to making it commercially viable. […]

Submitted by Walter Jayawardhana Stepping up pressure on Congress-led UPA Government, its key southern ally DMK on Tuesday demanded that India support the US-sponsored resolution at the UNHRC against Sri Lanka as over 4,000 people staged a protest against Colombo’s alleged war crimes. […]

FILE PHOTO UPFA Parliamentarian Duminda Silva who was in Singapore for medical treatment has reportedly arrived in the country in an Emirates flight early today, informed sources said. […]

The Department of Registration of Persons will make it compulsory for every adult to renew his or her national identity card every ten years to prevent misuse and facilitate easier identification, a senior official said. […]

Submitted by Walter Jayawardhana The row between Kolkata-based Titagarh Marine, which owned the barge that crashed into the Pamban rail bridge and the Southern Railway after the latter denied permission for it to pass through the bridge without paying Rs. 1.5 crore compensation, took a dramatic turn with the company taking out the barge via […]

Submitted by Walter Jayawardhana MDMK chief Vaiko, along with 400 activists of several Tamil outfits, was arrested on Monday when they attempted to picket the Sri Lankan Deputy High Commission in Chennai pressing for their demands, including a probe against the island government over alleged war crimes. […]

By Shenali Waduge India appears to refuse to accept Sri Lanka is a sovereign nation. Successive Indian governments have done their best to always undermine Sri Lanka’s sovereign status though diplomatic speeches will say otherwise. That was how LTTE came to be used as a tool to destabilize Sri Lanka. However, its choice of leader […]

Submitted by Walter Jayawardhana Balachandran, the slain 12-year-old son of LTTE chief V Prabhakaran, was a lonely child craving for company, according to one of his bodyguards. […]

Submitted by Walter Jayawardhana COLOMBO/TUTICORIN: Twenty two Indian fishermen were arrested on Sunday and their trawlers seized by Sri Lankan naval personnel for allegedly violating the island nation’s international maritime boundary. […]

Submitted by Walter Jayawardhana NEW DELHI: DMK has stepped up pressure on the Centre to vote against Sri Lanka at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). The US is moving a motion against Sri Lanka on war crimes and rights violations against Tamil civilians during the final phase of the war against the Liberation […]

His Excellency the president Mahinda Rajapaksha declared open the first ever reception hall named ‘Eagles Lagoon View’ of the Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) in Katunayaka on an invitation extended by the Commander of the Air Force Air Marshal Harsha Abeywickrama last evening (02nd March). […]

Submitted by Walter Jayawardhana A motion on Sri Lanka titled “Use the UN Human Rights Council and demand Observance of Laws, Human Rights and Reconciliation Process in Sri Lanka“ was rejected with the votes of the governing coalition in the German Bundestag (German Parliament) on 28th February.  The motion put forward by the opposition Social […]

A new organization, Dharma Voices for Animals (DVA), has been created to address animal suffering at dharma centers and in sanghas throughout the United States and the world.  More than 210 people have already joined DVA through its website, www.dharmavoicesforanimals.org . […]

Submitted by Walter Jayawardhana Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has denied that the Army killed LTTE chief Prabakaran’s 12-year-old son Balachandran. “Had it happened, I would have known [it]. It is obvious that if somebody [from the armed forces] had done that, I must take responsibility. We completely deny it. It can’t be,” he told […]

The Convenors Human Rights Law Center, Australia, Dear Organizers, The Human Rights Law Center has invited participants to a discussion about accountability for war crimes and the current human rights situation in Sri Lanka to be held on 7th and 8th March 2013 in Melbourne and Sydney, Australia. The panelists featured for this discussion are […]

Treasury Secretary Dr. P. B. Jayasundera, who has incurred the wrath of Minister Wimal Weerawansa over alleged fund cuts fired a salvo against the latter. […]