Category: Local News

By Janaka Alahapperuma – Pix by: Sudath Silva President Mahinda Rajapaksa arrived at the Mahabodhi temple in Bodh Gaya, India this afternoon on Friday 08 February on a two day private visit for pilgrimage. The President was warmly received at the Gaya International Airport by Chief Minister of Bihar Province, Nitish Kumar and senior state […]

DMK president Friday said Sri Lankan President Mahindra Rajapaksa was not only trying to obliterate Tamils in the island nation but also their culture, tradition and the Tamil language itself. […]

MDMK chief Vaiko courted arrest at Parliament Street police station in New Delhi on Friday along with 60 -70 supporters while protesting against Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s visit to India. […]

The Sri Lanka Deputy High Commission in Chennai  has reported that a  mob  of  around 15 people , carrying iron  rods, wooden sticks  and knives had entered  the  office of the  Bank of Ceylon Branch  at Poonamallee High Road  in Chennai at 1.30 p.m. on 7th February 2013. The mob had  overpowered  two police personnel  […]

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. […]