Category: Local News

By Shenali Waduge Unless it’s a mistake or purposely done the UN removal of Sri Lanka from its List of Shame for child conscription does not clearly distinguish the fact that it was the LTTE that conscripted children to its terror outfit and not Sri Lanka’s army. Therefore, Sri Lankan authorities need to ask UN […]

The Hindus of Sri Lanka, together with their fellow believers in South Asia, celebrate the important Thanksgiving and Harvest Festival of Thai Pongal today, President Mahinda Rajapaksa said. […]

By Janaka Alahapperuma – Pix by: Sudath Silva The national function ‘Abhises Abhiman’ to present letters of appointment to trainee graduates who were recruited to government service in 2012 was held under the patronage of the President Mahinda Rajapaksa at Sugathadasa Stadium this morning on 12 January. […]

Chairman of the Kelaniya Pradeshiya Sabha (PS), Prasanna Ranaweera, expressed gratitude to President Mahinda Rajapaksa, for accepting the resignation of Minister Mervyn Silva from the post of Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) Organizer of Kelaniya, and alleged the minister would have killed them all, if he remained in the position. […]

Presidential Coordinating Secretary Wijeyananda Herath states that the president has signed the removal letter of Chief Justice Dr. Shirani Bandaranaike. […]

By Walter Jayawardhana A meteorite that Landed recently, close to the ancient city of Polonnaruwa in Sri Lanka has been described as the most important scientific discovery in the last 500 years as it carried “compelling evidence of life” from outer space. […]

According to the Constitution of the country, Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa has only one option before him now to act on the resolution passed by the Parliament on Friday on the removal of the Chief Justice Dr Shirani Bandaranayake. […]

A cargo vessel “MV Orana” owned by an Ajman based shipping company, Kassab Inter Shipping LLC was hijacked by Somali pirates on 2nd December 2010 with twenty crew members on board including a Sri Lankan seaman named Mr. K.A.S.Soorasena. […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa has accepted the resignation letter tendered by Minister Mervyn Silva from the post of chief organizer of Kelaniya electorate, the Government Information Department reported today. […]

The impeachment motion was passed a few minutes ago with 155 votes for the motion and 49 against it. Speaker Chamal Rajapaksa said that motion against the Chief Justice was passed in parliament. […]

The Lawyers’ Collective has requested that the judges of the Supreme Court refuse to accept an appointment of a chief justice, refuse to recognise any person appointed to the office of the chief justice and refuse to sit with a person appointed as the chief justice. […]

By Shenali Waduge The growing controversy surrounding the Law College Entrance exam results is a serious issue that cannot be thrown under the carpet any longer. It revolves around the selection of 78 Muslim students, 3 of whom have topped the batch, 6 of whom are Muslim students within the first 10, and 28 of […]

By Walter Jayawardhana The ancient city of Polonnaruwa in Sri Lanka has created history as the place where a meteorite that fell there was found with fossilized life coming from outer space – for the first time in the history.  […]

By Shenali Waduge Yes, the Sinhalese Buddhists are concerned. Do they have reason to be? Yet the concerns of Buddhists are never given an unbiased voice in the mainstream media and instead Sinhalese Buddhists are labeled as “racist”, “extremist” and even “militant”. Their version also needs to be heard. […]

On the request of Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa,   the King of Saudi Arabia made every effort to save the life of Riza Nafeek and the Saudi Arabian King was even prepared to pay 3 million Saudi Riyals as blood money to the parents of the dead child without causing any cost to Sri Lanka. […]

Distraught family members of a Sri Lankan maid beheaded in Saudi Arabia have asked for her remains to be flown home, a family friend said today, amid growing anger at the execution. […]