By Shenali Waduge Exactly what is the UN’s game plan in continuously subjecting Sri Lanka to the wave of harassment it has been subject to increasing as a result of eliminating a terrorist organization when UN in 30 years had done pittance to bring the peace it is mandated to do? Are these reports coming […]
By Shenali Waduge When the US declares a country is of “national interest” it should not be hard to guess the reasons why more so when President Obama himself is to arrive in Burma to start an obvious “US enters Asia” drive on 19 November 2012. The US wishlist is also clear – it wants […]
By Shenali Waduge For a country used to daily bombs, suicide attempts, assassinations and LTTE terror since May 2009 there has been little of such news to launch anti-Sri Lanka slogans. Many of the movements, organizations existing because of terrorist activity has had nothing much to report either so when something like a prison riot […]
Rare showers of red rain fell for over 15 minutes in Sewanagala, Monaragala and Manampitiya,Polonnaruwa yesterday morning hours of yesterday and day before yesterday. According to Meteorology Department sources red rain fell heavily in these areas and the reason has not been found yet. Red rain in Sewanagala and Manampitiya left red frost on the […]
David Cameron is being urged by MPs to consider boycotting next year’s Commonwealth summit in Sri Lanka in protest at its human rights record. The Commons Foreign Affairs Committee said it was wrong for Colombo to host the heads of government meeting amid reports of continuing “serious abuses”. The PM should not attend unless he […]
Two Sri Lankan men were charged yesterday with the murder of a former commander of Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers rebel group in Paris, a French judicial source said. Nadarajah Mathinthiran was gunned down on November 8 as he was leaving the headquarters of the Tamil Co-ordination Committee in France (CCTF), an organisation regarded as a […]
Mohan Samaranayake was appointed as the new Media Spokesman to the President in addition to his post as the Chairman of the Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation, the President’s Media Division (PMD) stated. Ms. Anuradha Herath was appointed as the Director of International Media, the PMD stated. Bandula Jayasekera, who earlier held the position, is to […]
Sri Lanka and Uganda look forward to enhancing bilateral trade between the two countries, with potential for a significant increase in many sectors. During bilateral discussions with Ugandan President Gen. Yoveri Kaguta Museveni at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo this morning President Mahinda Rajapaksa pointed out the need to significantly enhance trade between the two […]
Politics.co.uk – By Alex Gangitano The Commonwealth’s decision to hold a heads of government meeting in the Sri Lankan city of Colombo was wrong, according to a new report. A foreign affairs committee report today looked at evidence of serious human rights abuses in the country, whose capital is to hold the 2013 Commonwealth heads […]
COLOMBO, Nov 13 (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s state-run oil firm Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) said on Tuesday that a $60 million arbitration award to Deutsche Bank (Xetra: 514000 – news) early this month was against the island nation’s government and not against the firm. […]
By R. K. Radhakrishnan Sri Lanka granted India consular access to its prisoners at the Welikada prison, the site of bloody clashes that left 27 dead and over 40 injured on Friday. High Commission officials made a physical verification of the 39 prisoners and said that they were all unharmed. […]