Sri Lankan High Commissioner in New Delhi, Mr. Prasad Kariyawasam left for Chennai this morning to seek the welfare of Buddhist monks who were injured in the attack on the Mahabodhi Temple in Chennai last night (24 Jan). He will meet with the Chief Secretary and other key officials of Tamil Nadu to express concern […]
A year and a half after the end of the Civil War, Switzerland has arrested ten members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) for extortion of funds. Investigations carried out on the 10 Tamil nationals of Sri Lankan origin arrested in Switzerland recently have revealed that by threatening and blackmailing, the accused have […]
COLOMBO: The Sri Lankan government on Monday said that it was “most anxious to ascertain the facts behind the alleged incidents” of attacks on fishermen, and denied again, in a detailed statement, the involvement of its Navy. Assuring that it was anxious as India was to bring “any perpetrators…to account,” the Sri Lankan Foreign Ministry […]
January 24, 2011: Nineteen persosn have been admitted to the Anuradhapura Teaching Hospital following an incident at the Anuradhapura Prison Complex. According to the Director of the Anuradhapura Teaching Hospital Dr. P. B. Wijekoon, an individual has also died in the incident. […]
Sri Lanka’s star batsman Sanath Jayasuriya strongly and remorsefully reject malicious reports against him and claims that these are sadistic attempts by his political opponents to damage his political career. A website believed to be financed by a discarded politico who has joined the United National Party recently and is famous for intermittently publishing doctored […]
Sri Lanka Railways (SLR) arrested 14,044 people who were found travelling without tickets in trains and charged Rs 77 million from them in 2010. The SLR recovered RS.4.8million as fines from the 8,840 ticketless travellers within the Colombo region while 3,204 people who were travelling without tickets have paid Rs 1.6 million in the Anuradhapura […]
UNP MPs Sajith Premadasa and Ravi Karunanayake were locked in an angry exchange of words at yesterday’s meeting of the party’s nomination board for the local polls. The war of words erupted when the board chaired by UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe was discussing the list of candidates for the Tissamaharama and Beliatte areas. Others present […]
A group of 20 investors, led by businessman Dhammika Perera, drive the Colombo Stock Exchange’s top 40 quoted companies and have holdings collectively worth Rs. 122 Billion. The group of 20 investors, led by the Secretary to the Ministry of Transport and former Chairman of the Board of Investment, Dhammika Perera, have been identified as […]
The United Nations yesterday lauded the Government’s efforts in assisting the people who were affected by floods in the Eastern, North Central and Central Provinces. UN Assistant Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator Catherine Bragg addressing the media at the conclusion of a three day visit to Sri Lanka, said the […]
The Police Department on Wednesday commenced interviews to recruit 1,000 Tamil youth to the police service. The interviews will be continued for several days. These interviews are being held to recruit both men and women sub-inspectors and police constables, and police drivers to serve in the districts of the Northern Province and all applicants are […]
Former parliamentarian K. D. Lal Kantha says that although millions have been allocated to import luxury vehicles for parliamentarians who have not been granted ministerial posts, the government has approved only a meagre sum as relief to those affected by the recent floods.
The Ministry of Irrigation and Water Resources Management has formulated a programme to sell the produce of the Mahaweli zones in Colombo at concessionary rates. Subject Minister Nimal Siripala De Silva speaking to Newsfirst said that the step had been taken to prevent the price of consumer goods from increasing due to the extreme weather […]