Category: Local News

Submitted by Walter Jayawardhana LONDON: The prominent barrister Geoffrey Robertson wants Australia and other commonwealth countries to boycott a leaders’ meeting in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo to protest against the impeachment of the nation’s chief justice. […]

Submitted by Walter Jayawardhana The Sri Lankan armed forces on Thursday rebutted the charge of the Human Rights Watch (HRW) that the government troops had indulged in extensive sexual violence against Tamil women during and after the Eelam War IV, saying that cases of such violence were very few and the perpetrators were punished. […]

Submitted by Walter Jayawardhana CHENNAI: MDMK leader Vaiko wound up his anti-prohibition padayatra on Thursday by sending out a strong message on the Sri Lankan army’s alleged atrocities during the ethnic war in the island nation. […]

Former Media Ministry Secretary W.B. Ganegala has been appointed as Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) Chairman, Government Information Department said.     […]

Consultant psychiatrist Dr. DVJ Harishchandra has passed away at the Kalubowila Hospital this morning. […]

“Even the politicians’ sons will behave like boys; if someone hits them they will hit back,”  said Minister Keheliya Rambukwella at the Cabinet news conference yesterday. […]

Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials said yesterday the “recall” of Saudi Ambassador to Sri Lanka Abdulaziz Bin Abdurrahman Al-Jammaz was a summons for consultation. […]

President of the Janata Party of India, Dr Subramanian Swamy called on President Mahinda Rajapaksa at Temple Trees last morning. Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa and Foreign Ministry Secretary Karunathillake Amunugama were also present. […]

Submitted by Walter Jayawardhana Against the backdrop of impeachment of the Sri Lankan chief justice, US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Robert Blake has said the country is moving backwards on democracy. […]

Submitted by Walter Jayawardhana NEW DELHI: External affairs minister Salman Khurshid on Tuesday said in the Rajya Sabha that India would not intervene directly in Sri Lanka’s sovereign affairs even though MPs belonging AIADMK, DMK and CPI demanded that the government support the hard line taken by the US against the island country for the […]

The Government today stated that it could not take over the responsibility of the issuance of the Halal Certification, Media Minister Keheliya Rambukwella said today. […]

The husband of ousted Chief Justice Pradeep Kariyawasam who was the Chairman of National Savings Bank was released on personal bail by the Colombo Magistrate Court today. […]

By Shenali Waduge The halal certificate and halal label issue on virtually all packaging of both locally consumerable and export related food items needs to conclude. Objections arose questioning why companies should advocate a new practice of certification method and labeling to suit a minority religion when such was non-existent for centuries. […]

Economic Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa has been appointed as the National Organizer of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) at the central committee meeting, sources said. […]

A well planned media campaign is underway in Sri Lanka parallel to the ‘Geneva war’ to weaken and destroy the United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) government led by President Mahinda Rajapaksa. The local media is using the ‘Pasikuda incident’ as the main tool in this campaign, Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) General Secretary and Health […]

Sri Lanka today strongly objected to any unfair, biased and unjust approach that may be adopted by the UN Human Rights Council with regard to the protection and promotion of Human Rights in Sri Lanka. […]