Category: Local News

Every individual is entitled to religious freedom but this should be within the fundamental law of the country, Mass Media and Information Minister and Cabinet Spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella said. […]

Issuing a statement, the Ministry of Sports states that Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage has rejected a request made by the Chairman of Sri Lanka Cricket to hand over broadcasting rights to Ten Sports for a period of seven years without a tender procedure. […]

Members of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam staged a walkout from the Assembly on Wednesday, taking exception to AIADMK whip Vaigaichelvan’s allegation that the DMK regime had failed to prevent the killing of Tamils in the last phase of the Sri Lankan civil war. […]

While in Trincomalee for Independence Day festivities, First Lady Shiranthi Wickramasinghe Rajapaksa visited the home of Rizana Nafeek, the young Sri Lankan housemaid who was executed by Saudi Arabia in January after Saudi law found her guilty of killing the child in her care. The First Lady made the visit on Feb. 03, Rizana Nafeek’s […]

A tug-of-war between former Power and Energy Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka and Ministry Secretary M. M. C. Ferdinando over the recent removal of Lanka Coal Company Chairman Tissa Herath was the primary cause of Ranawaka losing that portfolio, senior government officials said. […]

The JVP yesterday charged that those responsible for the Matale killings during 1987-89 period, directly or indirectly, were now holding high ranking posts in President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s government. […]

FILE PHOTO Education is the major resource while knowledge is the main weapon, President Mahinda Rajapaksa said yesterday. The future of the country is with the younger generation especially with the university students, the President said. […]

Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapaksa will leave for India later this week for what is expected to be a tension filled visit as Tamil parties gather to protest the tour, the government’s media unit said here in a statement on Tuesday. […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa has neither received nor rejected any requests by the US for Lankan troops to be sent to Afghanistan, the Presidential Spokesman told Ada Derana. […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa has rejected a call by the United States to send Sri Lankan troops to war-torn Afghanistan, the Government Information Department said. […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa reminded the world of the provisions in the United Nations Charter of calling on all nations to refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state in their international relations. […]

DMK president M. Karunanidhi on Monday urged the Union government not to encourage Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s visit to the country and announced a black-shirt demonstration in Chennai during his visit on February 8. […]

The Prisons Department yesterday released 1,270 prisoners under a special pardon in view of the 65th National Day. […]

The Deputy Mayor of Moratuwa Municipal Council has been arrested in connection with the killing of a monk, police said. […]

Following the detection of inaccurate information contained in the visa applications of the 4 member delegation representing the International Bar Association (IBA), which had unilaterally scheduled a visit to Sri Lanka, regrettably the Government of Sri Lanka was constrained to withdraw visas issued through the ETA system for 3 applicants and the other by a […]

This file photo shows a Sri Lankan Coastguard unit vessel during a patrol near Colombo, on March 26, 2010. Sri Lanka’s navy on Sunday rescued more than 100 Bangladeshi and Myanmar nationals from a sinking fishing vessel off the island’s eastern coast, according to a spokesman. […]