Category: Local News

Foreign Minister Bob Carr will travel to Sri Lanka on Friday to discuss trade ties, tourism and efforts to disrupt people smuggling. […]

Clearly unhappy over the decision of the Sri Lankan Government to impose fresh import duty on automobile exports from India, the Government, on Monday, indicated that it would explore the option through diplomatic channels to prevail upon Sri Lanka to bring down the import tariff as such a move could hit Indian vehicle exports to […]

AP – By Bharatha Mallawarachi – Pix by Reuters COLOMBO: Hundreds of Sri Lankans hit the streets Monday to protest against a parliamentary committee that ruled the country’s chief justice is unfit to hold office because of unexplained wealth and misuse of power. […]

UNP and Opposition Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday warned that Sri Lanka might even lose her membership in the Commonwealth if the moves to oust incumbent Chief Justice Dr. Shirani Bandaranayake, continue violating basic fundamentals. […]

The entire Kolonnawara area would be turned into a battlefield unless MP Duminda Silva is arrested at the airport upon arrival his in the country, said Hirunika Premachandra, daughter of the late Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra, yesterday. […]

FILE PHOTO Whilst impressing on the need to safeguard the honour and dignity of the Judiciary, President Mahinda Rajapaksa said if the honour and trust in the Judiciary is affected, it will hinder proper governance of the country. He was of the view that Judges should be of exemplary conduct at all times and they […]

The Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) which probed charges against the Chief Justice has found her guilty of three out of the first five charges contained in the impeachment motion and investigated by the committee. […]

By Janaka Alahapperuma The Colombo based Diplomatic Corps accredited to Sri Lanka hosted a farewell reception in the honour of the High Commissioner of Pakistan to Sri Lanka Mrs Seema Illahi Baloch on Thursday, December 6th, 2012. […]

By Janaka Alahapperuma – Pix by: Chandana Perera Arrangements are in place for the staging of the second annual President Mahinda Rajapaksa T20 Under-19 Triangular Cricket Tournament, conducted among three premier national schools in Sri Lanka, Richmond College- Galle, Nalanda College, and the Thurstan College, Colombo on Saturday 08 and Sunday 09 of December (today […]

By Janaka Alahapperuma – Pix By : Sudath Silva A delegation of permanent representatives to the United Nations (UN), including ambassadors from Japan, Bangladesh, Nigeria and Romania, called on President Mahinda Rajapaksa at Temple Trees on Friday 07 December. The UN delegation visited Sri Lanka for a fact finding mission and held discussions with the President […]

Opposition members of the Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) probing the charges in the impeachment motion against the Chief Justice have withdrawn from proceedings as the chairman has rejected their conditions. […]

  The Opposition Leader of the Kolonnawa Urban Council, Chandrasiri Dias has died while addressing the council today. […]

“I am not a man who takes revenge. The law is equal to everyone irrespective of their positions. If someone commits an offense, he will get punishments”, Said President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the opening Ceremony of the Weligama Resort on the Southern Expressway. […]

By Shenali Waduge The list of crimes committed by a single state over the last couple of decades is appalling to say the list. Like a bull in a china shop it simply continues to target and strike with little care for any international laws or humanitarian treaties most of which it has not signed […]

By Janaka Alahapperuma – Pix by: Sudath Silva President Mahinda Rajapaksa declared open the “Canonwin Arcade”, Sri Lanka’s first travel service center and Rest House on Southern Expressway and the interchange at Welipanna, Kottawa entrance connecting the Southern Expressway to the Colombo Outer Circular Road this afternoon on 06 December. Almost a year has passed […]

Music Maestro Pandit W. D. Amaradeva yesterday celebrated his 85th birthday at the Nelum Pokuna Mahinda Rajapaksa Performing Arts Theatre where a concert and a felicitation ceremony were held with the participation of a large number of artistes. This event was organized by Star Events headed by Sudharma Nethikumara in consultation with MCNS Director General […]