Parliament has been suspended for 10 minutes after a tense situation erupted when several Government MPs attempted to assault UNP MP Jayalath Jayawardena accusing him of instigating the protest against President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the Heathrow airport. According to our parliament correspondent several government MPs led by Dinesh Gunawardena, Anura Priyadarshana Yapa and Jagath Pushpakumara […]
News Source: Guardian UK The diplomatic campaign by former foreign secretary David Miliband to champion aid and human rights during the Sri Lankan humanitarian crisis last year was largely driven by domestic political calculations, according to a Foreign Office official. A leaked May 2009 cable from the US embassy in London quotes the official, Tim […]
The Oxford Union canceled the proposed address by His Excellency The President of Sri Lanka. They cited security concerns for doing so. His Excellency President Rajapaksa is in the UK with a senior delegation of Sri Lankan politicians and business leaders. During this visit the delegation are meeting with UK parliamentarians, business leaders and members […]
Due to security concerns surrounding President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s visit which have recently been brought to our attention by the police, the Union has regretfully found that the talk is no longer practicable and has had to cancel his address, states a media release from the Oxford Union. The statement in full: Statement from The Oxford […]
The High Commission of Sri Lanka in London in a statement issued yesterday (30 Nov) categorically denies that the Channel 4 News TV video is authentic. Last year when Channel 4 News telecast a similar video the Government of Sri Lanka clearly established, by reference to technical considerations, that it was not genuine but fake. […]
Sri Lankan President Rajapaksa who is in London now is due to address the Oxford Union for a second time Thursday. Sri Lanka’s renowned politicians and statesmen such as former Prime Minister S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike, former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, former Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar, late Minister Lalith Athulathmudali and President Mahinda Rajapaksa, have previously addressed […]
News Source: Guardian UK Lawyers working for Tamil activists are attempting to obtain a war crimes arrest warrant against Sri Lanka’s president and senior member of his entourage who have arrived in Britain. Mahinda Rajapaksa, whose government defeated the separatist Tamil Tigers last year amid humanitarian protests about the treatment of civilians trapped in the […]
DM Online – By Sandun A. Jayasekera Health Minister Maithripala Sirisena yesterday charged that some elements including certain ministers were attempting to grab valuable state land belonging to the Mulleriyawa Infectious Diseases Hospital (IDH) and he had to wage a war to protect these lands. The Minister made this hard-hitting allegation when he visited the […]
November 30, 2010: A decision has been reached to postpone the Hi-Corp financial fraud case, which was filed at the High Court against former Army Commander Sarath Fonseka and his son-in-law Danuna Thilakaratne, to the 14th of January. This decision was taken based on the agreement reached between the lawyers appearing for the plaintiff and […]
Sri Lankan police have arrested and bailed seven people accused of appearing in pornographic films. Police said the seven had to make statements and pay a surety before being released. They said those arrested were all suspected of featuring in locally made pornographic movies. The faces of people accused of taking part were earlier published […]
This is what we said from the start, Construction and Housing Ministers Wimal Weerawansa told Ada Derana regarding the Wikileaks documents on Sri Lanka. He added that this substantiates the fact that it was the US that led the International operation against Sri Lanka. They wanted to isolate us internationally, Wimal claimed. Weerawansa went on […]
The teenage daughter of a Sri Lankan shopkeeper stabbed to death during a suspected robbery, watched in horror as the attack was shown on CCTV in the family’s flat upstairs in Birmingham, UK Saturday night. She saw attackers armed with a knife try to grab cash from the till, and called the police. […]
COLOMBO, Nov 29 (APP): Pakistan on Monday offered specialized training, closer collaboration and sharing of expertise in counter-terrorism to help Sri Lanka better train its security forces to thwart any future terrorist threat.“We wish to strengthen our cooperation in ridding our countries of this menace and we can do it by learning from experiences of […]
The report produced by the committee that had been appointed to examine and investigate the clash that occurred at the Welikada Prison recently has been submitted to the Secretary of the Rehabilitation and Prison Reforms Ministry. At least 44 policemen were hospitalized as a result of the clash that took place on 07 November, when […]
The maiden sessions of the Youth Parliament is scheduled to be held under the patronage of President Mahinda Rajapaksa on 12th January at the National Youth Centre in Maharagama. A Youth Prime Minister, Speaker, Cabinet and Youth Parliamentarians will be selected following the results of the polls conducted for the Youth Parliament were released. The […]
November 29, 2010: The ministerial post came to me and I didn’t refuse it, says Vasudeva Nanayakkara, the new Minister of National Languages and Social Integration. Addressing the first convention of the Joint Workers’ Union of the State Distillery Corporation, which was suspended, in Kalutara yesterday, Vasudeva said that with the ministerial post came more […]