Category: Local News

There are no Indian fishermen in Sri Lankan custody and the New Delhi is engaged with Colombo to ensure that fisherfolk pursue their livelihood in a safe, secure and sustainable manner. […]

2011 Advanced Level Examinations new District and Island rankings have been released, the Examinations Department said a short while ago. The results could be obtained at www.doenets.lk […]

Business tycoon Harry Jayawardena says the 2011/12 financial year brought mixed emotions after the economy fared well during the first half only to succumb to over enthusiasm thereafter. […]

President Mahinda Rajapakse emphasized that the government is holding elections in due time to protect the democratic tights of the people and not to put the political parties that cannot face the people in to a predicament. […]

The Maubima People’s Party convened its first media briefing in Colombo. ’’When you look at the long term, this country is doomed. Today agriculture in the country is finished. How can there be an agricultural industry when the seeds are being brought from Australia?’’ […]

BHOPAL: The Madhya Pradesh police department still has no official intimation about the scheduled visit of Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa to the state capital on September 21 for the foundation laying ceremony of a Buddhist university at Sanchi in nearby Raisen district. […]

Sri Lankan police arrested a Chinese tourist suspected of swallowing a diamond worth 1.8 million rupees ($13,600) on Wednesday at the island nation’s biggest international gem and jewelry exhibition. Chow Cheng, 32, is believed to have swallowed the diamond as he inspected it at the exhibition, attended by buyers from China, Hong Kong, Thailand, India […]

Mohanathas Sivanayagam marked the long weekend by sticking 2,100 acupuncture needles into his head. The 37-year-old is a father of three young boys and works in the trucking industry. He came to Canada from Sri Lanka when he was 23. He has a pleasant smile, a calm demeanour, and a love of record breaking. He […]

Minister Wimal Weerawansa sounded an alarm over the anti Sri Lankan attitude by the Tamil Nadu government and asked what the consequences would if Sri Lankans chose to treat thousands of Tamil Nadu citizens who regularly visited Sri Lanka in a similar manner. […]

Former President Chandrika Kumaratunge says that despite the lapse of three and a half years since the end of the war, some areas in Jaffna have not seen adequate development. […]

The stock market is enjoying a sudden boom but it is certainly too unpredictable to be emphatic that the rebound is there to stay though investor sentiments are sure to have got a big boost of late. […]

A group of Sri Lankan pilgrims were targeted allegedly by pro-Tamil groups near Trichy airport on Tuesday. The protestors smashed windshields of three buses carrying the pilgrims even as the police escorted the vehicles. […]

A school girl was stabbed to death using a sharp object in Thibbatuwawa, Kekirawa. The police spokesman’s office stated that the perpetrator is suspected to be the victim’s lover. […]

The Sri Lankan government today issued a travel warning against those visiting Tamil Nadu in India, in the wake of recent events of intimidation towards Sri Lankan nationals visiting the Southern Indian state for religious and tourist purposes. […]

A three Judge Bench of the Supreme Court yesterday directed the University Grants Commission (UGC) to comply with the judgment dated July 25, 2012, and release the rankings of the students of the last GCE (AL) examination under both the old and new syllabi on an islandwide and district basis, considering both sets of candidates […]

Sydney: Australian Defence Minister Stephen Smith has called the opposition’s call to deport all Sri Lankan asylum seekers ‘extraordinary’ and ‘hypocritical’. […]