Category: Local News

– by Shenali Waduge – The plot thickens. The “friends” of Rajapakse’s are increasing and their baits are not hard to read into. The choices before Rajapakse seem few and their lobbies appear in the form of India and Japan on the instructions of the US. Essentially the President must be mindful of the traps […]

A watcher at the Horana-Moragahahena State farm was shot dead by police fire after the Moragahahena police OIC was shot and injured by the watcher during a raid. […]

Colombo District UNP Parliamentarian Ravi Karunanayake charged yesterday that the government was trying to run the economy on casinos, taverns and brothers with the national economy in an absolute perilous state and moving without direction. […]

One person was killed and 2 others injured after a vehicle was involved in an accident at Gelanigama on the Southern Expressway, police media spokesman SP Buddhika Siriwardena said. […]

Washington, April 10, 2013 : “Sri Lanka has many attractions for its visitors, the best being the twenty million smiles awaiting to  greet you” opined Ambassador Jaliya Wickramasuriya, Sri Lanka’s envoy to the United States. […]

– by Shenali Waduge – The arrival of over 70,000 Indian Peace Keeping Force troops to Sri Lanka followed the signing of the Indo-Lanka Peace Accord on 29 July 1987. Their task was significant for ironically the IPKF was to disarm the very militants that India had provided covert training & arms to. In other […]

The Labour Ministry yesterday requested the private sector, government corporations and statutory boards to grant a holiday on Monday, April 15 for their employees, as it had already been declared a public holiday. […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa sent a message of condolence on the death of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in which he commended the Prime Minister for her commitment to fighting terrorism. […]

  – Submitted by Walter Jayawardhana – CHENNAI: Did India compensate the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) after the 1987 Indo-Lanka pact and the dispatch of Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) to Sri Lanka? The US administration believed so, according to a cable sent by its embassy here and released by Wikileaks. […]

– Submitted by Walter Jayawardhana – Colombo, Apr 9: A Buddhist nationalist group today staged a protest here for halting screening of Kollywood movies in Sri Lanka. Members of Ravana Balaya gathered outside the office of the cinema regulator Public Performance Board (PPB) and theatres to press for a ban on Tamil movies coming from […]

Had the then Indian government acted with responsibility, Sri Lanka wouldn’t have experienced a 30-year war, Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa said yesterday. […]

A woman and a one-year-old baby were killed when a motorbike collided with a lorry in the Anamaduwa Bangdeniya area of Pallama last night (April 9). […]

  – by Shenali Waduge – Mass media have a power far more than Governments to tilt public opinion to their line of thinking using a plethora of modes at both international and local levels with a dangerous ability to make mountains out of molehills. The scope of their manipulation is phenomenal and profit driven. […]

  – Submitted by Walter Jayawardhana – Five parliamentarians from India, who arrived here Monday night, met Speaker of the Sri Lankan Parliament Chamal Rajapaksa and External Affairs Minister of Sri Lanka G.L. Peiris on Tuesday, it is reliably learnt. […]

– Submitted by Walter jayawardhana – Disregarding the appeal of Environment Minister Jayanthi Natarajan, FICCI Tamil Nadu President Rafeeq Ahmed and its former president A C Muthiah to cancel a chambers-sponsored Indian Parliamentary delegation visit to Sri Lanka, five MPs—including Congress spokesperson Sandip Dikshit—left for Colombo by an evening flight on Monday. […]

A United States diplomat has expressed alarm at a rising anti-Muslim campaign in Sri Lanka and warned that such sentiments should not be allowed to fester. […]