– by Shenali D Waduge – With the recent calls to rewrite history it is no better a time than now to bring out all the hard facts that have got both hidden or buried (pun intended). Every time the topic of colonial atrocities are brought forward for debate the quick response is to […]
(Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s state-run Statistics Office said on Wednesday it will sack one of its top officials for disobedience and leaking internal information after he said that economic growth data compiled by the office was inflated last year. Opposition legislators have criticised President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s government, saying it has long overstated growth estimates and […]
The four popular artistes,former Miss Sri Lanka and popular model Gayesha Perera, famous singer Ginger, Popular actress Ruwanthi Mangala and Malsha Kumaratunga, daughter of Minister Jeevan Kumaratunga who faced the Nomination Board of the SLFP recently revealed in an interview with Daily Mirror why they decided to enter politics and what they would do if […]
– by Shenali D Waduge – No post-independent Government has faced such a barrage of disputes as the current Government many of which have been as a result of its own making. The momentum brought about by the patriotic forces following the LTTE’s closure of the Mavil Aru water supply forced the Rajapakse Government […]
President Mahinda Rajapaksa welcomed Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom and his delegation this morning to the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo where bilateral talks took place. Following a one-on-one conversation between the two leaders, the delegations of the two countries partook in bilateral discussions spanning a wide variety of sectors. […]
Fort Magistrate and Additional District Judge Thilina Gamage ordered the lawyers who appeared for the suspect to make a complaint to the IGP, against the police officer of the Kollupitiya Police Station who had videotaped, using his camera phone, the young female suspect nude, during a raid of a so-called massage parlour. […]
– by Shenali D Waduge – The ICRC started operations in Sri Lanka in 1989, an invitation extended by late President Premadasa following his tryst with the LTTE and with LTTE expanding its terror ICRC was able to expand its operations too. What is noteworthy is that ICRC established its offices in areas that were […]
– by Janaka Alahapperuma – Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa who arrived at the Abu Dhabi Capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on a one-day state visit has attended the opening ceremony of the 7th World Future Energy Summit (WFES) and Zayed Future Energy Prize Awards Ceremony-2014 last evening (20 January) at the Abu […]
Not a single fisherman from TN has been killed by the Sri Lankan Navy since April 2011 in Indian waters, the Central Government has informed the Madras HC (Madurai Bench). Further no warships were being sold to Lanka and only Offshore Patrol Vehicles (OPVs) would be traded. […]