Category: Local News

The Sri Lanka Computer Emergency response team says it has received over 650 complaints regarding frauds committed using social networking website Facebook. […]

Nepal has refused to grant refugee status to few close associates of former Sri Lankan army chief Sarath Fonseka residing in the country. The Sri Lankans who worked with Fonseka during his presidential campaign are reportedly staying “semi-nderground” in Kathmandu for past few months and seeking asylum in Nepal. […]

The Sri Lanka Atomic Energy Authority yesterday advised against panic over the alleged threat of radiation following four blasts at a nuclear power plant in Fukushima in Japan due to failure of the cooling system. Sri Lanka Atomic Energy Authority Chairman Prof Wimaladharma Abeywickrama said that there is no impact on Sri Lanka due to […]

Four individuals including a university lecturer have been hospitalized following an assault by a group of students from the Sri Jayawardenapura University. The attack had occurred yesterday (March 14) afternoon when the lecturer had intervened in order to disperse a crowd of aggressive students, Dr. N.L.A. Karunaratne, Vice Chancellor of the University of Sri Jayawardenapura […]

The S11 railway power sets imported from India are not up to the required standard, says Kumara Welgama, Minister of Transport. He made these observations at a function in Agalawatta. […]

News Source: THe Hindu – By Nirupama Subramanian CHENNAI: Sri Lanka quietly asked the United States for assistance to improve its air defence systems as India-supplied radars had proved insufficient to prevent an attack by LTTE aircraft on the Katunayake air base in March 2007, but it agreed with the Americans that New Delhi must […]

Colombo: Emerging from the shadows of militancy, Sri Lanka’s booming tourism industry recorded another 30 per cent jump for the first two months of this year, with Indians topping the list of holiday makers in the island. The total number of foreign tourists visiting the island jumped to 139,994 in January and February, up from […]

In 2005 when H.E President appointed me as Secretary Defence to take in charge of the security forces the term ‘war hero’ was alien to this nation, the men in uniform were treated as third citizens. Now those who are accusing the government of involving security forces in development work were neither able to march […]

A hydrogen explosion occurred this morning at the quake-hit Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant’s troubled No. 3 reactor, the Japanese government’s nuclear safety agency said. The 11:01 a.m. incident came after a hydrogen explosion hit the No. 1 reactor at the same plant Saturday, and prompted the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency to urge […]

Sri Lanka Ministry of Education has decided to close schools in theareas where the LG elections are held on March 16 and 17. The schools that are used as the counting centers will be closed from 14th Monday to Friday the18. […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa has decided to provide one million US dollars in assistance towards the welfare of the Japanese people affected by last Friday’s earthquake and tsunami. The President has already directed Treasury Secretary Dr P B Jayasundera to take necessary action for the release of this sum. […]

News Source: The Hindu CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu’s Director-General of Police Letika Saran on Thursday dismissed as baseless Sri Lankan Prime Minister D. M. Jayaratne’s allegation that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) had three secret training camps in the State close to its border with Kerala. “There are no LTTE camps in Tamil Nadu. […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday said that the Government would take steps to provide subsidized fertilizer to all farmers. “At present the Government provides subsidized fertilizer to paddy, rubber, coconut and tea growers. I have instructed officials to extend the facility to vegetable cultivators as well,” he said. He also noted that the Government would ensure […]

Sri Lanka Minister denied the match fixing allegation that appeared in the Island news paper today. The Minister of Environment Mr. Anura Priyadarshana Yapa who briefed the media at the Wednesdays Post -Cabinet Press Conference has been quoted as saying that the relevant authority should probe match fixing allegations against Mahela, Thilan The Director General […]

The Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) has earned profits of Rs. 5 billion in the year 2010 after incurring losses of Rs. 115 billion in the previous ten years, Minister of Power and Energy Patali Champika Ranawaka said. […]

Source: www.salasalappu.com The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in its news service has raised a big hue and cry over the reported demolition of a LTTE graveyard in Sri Lanka’s North. A BBC report claimed that there was sharp criticism over the demolition of the graveyard and the construction of a Military Camp on that site. […]