Category: Local News

Submitted by Walter Jayawardhana Amid sustained pressure by political parties from Tamil Nadu, Government on Wednesday agreed to have a discussion on the Sri Lankan Tamils issue in Lok Sabha on Thursday. […]

A man was arrested in the Yala Reserve in Kataragama in possession of 14.4 kilograms of marijuana by the police Special Task Force. […]

– By Ernest Perera – The nation will not deny the role played by Mahinda Rajapakse as President of Sri Lanka in flaying the odds to adamantly bring to a finale the headache of terrorism built upon a false notion of self-determination. It is now time to put to rest these false notions. The GOSL […]

Submitted by Walter Jayawardhana Seeking to dispel the impression that the Congress is indifferent to popular sentiment in Tamil Nadu on the Sri Lankan Tamils issue, party MPs and Union Ministers have briefed AICC vice-president Rahul Gandhi about the need to participate in the Tamil Eelam Supporters Organisation (TESO) conference to be held in Delhi […]

Former Chief Justice Dr. Shirani Bandaranayake, in a motion filed in the Supreme Court yesterday, has said that she is still the Chief Justice of this country. […]

FILE PHOTO Colombo District UPFA MP Duminda Silva, one of the accused in the Bharatha Lakshaman assassination, was remanded yesterday until March 14 by Colombo Additional Magistrate Sandun Vithana. […]

(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 […]