Category: Local News

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s longest serving cricket captain and member of the opposition DNA party in parliament, Arjuna Ranatunga, claims that it was the interest shown by businessmen in the game, after Sri Lanka’s 1996 World Cup win, that proved a bad influence on the game. […]

Dissident UNP MP Sajith Premadasa, on Tuesday (25) alleged that those who visited Gen. Sarath Fonseka at the Welikada prison were secretly pushing for the war veteran’s detention. […]

The nation will celebrate the second anniversary of the annihilation of one of the most ruthless terrorist outfits in the world, the LTTE, at a solemn ceremony at the Galle Face Green under the patronage of President Mahinda Rajapaksa today. […]

Prominent Sri Lankan orator, scholar, playwright, teacher, Sinhala lyricist, author and poet Kalasuri Arisen Ahubudu has passed away at a private hospital a short while ago. […]

The main opposition accused the government of promoting state terrorism. United National Party (UNP), say the compulsory leadership training for new undergraduates is a step in that direction. Speaking to media on Wednesday, MP Lashman Kiriella said, “This training is the initial step towards preparing candidates for state terrorism”. […]

Sri Lanka would appoint a five member panel of judges to initiate fresh investigations into Human Rights and Fundamental Rights violations in the North-East and report back to the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRC), officials said. […]

The Foreign Minister of China Yang Jiechi receiving Sri Lanka’s External Affairs Minister Professor G.L.Peiris on Tuesday at the Foreign Ministy in Beijing, said that China has total confidence in the capability of the government and people of Sri Lanka to resolve their own issues. He also said that China will stand by Sri Lanka […]

Sarath Fonseka stated today (May 25) in courts that Frederica Jansz did not retract the White Flag statement from the article that appeared in the Sunday Leader as the Defence Secretary had threatened to arrest her if she did. […]

Deputy Leader of the United National Party Karu Jayasuriya has emphasized on the need to lift emergency regulations. karujHe  stated that  even though the United National Front government removed emergency regulations in 2001, successive governments had kept the state of emergency in force and that even after the war victory, this situation had not changed. […]

Three Journalists and a Navy officer were injured after an internal explosion occurred this morning (May 25) inside a van belonging to a government television channel. The explosion occurred in the Karagahatenna area in Matale, Police stated. […]

Selvarasa Pathmanathan alias KP, who succeeded Prabhakaran as the LTTE leader has said that the UN Secretary General’s panel report on Sri Lanka  wouldn’t help any reconciliation and rather it would disturb reconciliation. […]

A group of representatives of the Inter-Parliamentary Union is scheduled to visit the country to monitor court proceedings related to Sarath Fonseka. […]

NATO warplanes hammered Tripoli on Tuesday with some of their heaviest air strikes yet after the United States said Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi would “inevitably” be forced from power, Reuters reported. nato_attackAt least twelve (12) huge explosions rocked the capital in the early hours. Government spokesman Mussa Ibrahim said three people were killed and 150 […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa noted that the Sri Lankan university education system would thrive in the future by producing global graduates who can positively contribute towards the country’s prosperity. […]

I have never made any statement that was in opposition to the country or the army, former Army Commander Sarath Fonseka said today (May 23) at the Colombo High Court when the court took up the White Flag case. […]

COLOMBO: Helping to rebuild the battered infrastructure in the north Sri Lanka and catering to the livelihood concerns of the Tamils have marked the broad spectrum Indian engagement with Sri Lanka in the past two post-war years, to ensure an early return of normalcy to the Northern Province. […]