FILE PHOTO – The Disaster Management Center (DMC) says that ten sluice gates of the Parakrama Samudra reservoir have been opened due to the rising water level. […]

Hirunika Premachandra, daughter of the slain Presidential Adviser and former UPFA Parliamentarian Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra said that she would never abandon her battle to bring the murderers of her father to justice. […]

Sri Lankan household workers will no longer be required to surrender their passports to their sponsors, according to a new agreement signed between Saudi Arabia and Sri Lanka on Monday. Under the agreement, the salaries of domestic workers will also be remitted to their bank accounts. The two governments signed on Monday a memorandum of […]

– by Shenali D Waduge – What Christianity/Catholicism cannot deny whatever modern day twists their biased historians and followers spin is the fact that western colonial crusaders traveled to foreign lands in Asia, Africa and North and South America to invade, subjugate and convert the indigenous natives by hook or by crook. This reality is […]

An Albino Turtle believed to be the one lost in a turtle hatchery in Kosgoda, was recovered from the house of the hatchery owner’s daughter, police sources said today. […]

FILE PHOTO – Two Chinese and a Malaysian were arrested at Kalawana last night on charges of having in their possession 12 kilos of Wallapatta. […]

– by Shenali D Waduge – When we had been thinking that the ICC was created to put on trial only African and other Third World leaders a 250 page dossier on Britains war crimes in Iraq has been submitted on 11 January 2013 to the ICC by Birmingham-based Public Interest Lawyers and the European […]

Panadura Magistrate, Ruchira Weliwatte, ordered the suspect who was remanded on charges of stealing seven bottles of whisky and a laptop computer from United National Party MP, Mangala Samaraweera’s Panadura home, be released on Rs 5,000 cash bail and Rs 25,000 personal bail on Monday (13). […]

I am pleased to extend my greetings to the Hindus of Sri Lanka who celebrate the important Thanksgiving and Harvest Festival of Thai Pongal today. […]

FILE PHOTO – The External Affairs Ministry today announced that India and Sri Lanka had begun the process of releasing fishermen trapped in Lankan jails. […]

The Sri Lankan rupee fell on Monday from its 2-1/2-month high hit in the previous session on importer dollar demand. […]

– by Shenali D Waduge – “Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.” – Henry Kissinger. America cries ‘bring down dictators’ little forgetting that they vote for Presidents who do not think twice about ordering use of chemicals upon entire villages and wiping out the natives of […]

Saudi Arabia and Sri Lanka will sign a landmark labor pact on Monday in a renewed bid to regulate hiring of domestic workers from the island nation and to ensure protection to all domestic help already employed in the Kingdom. […]

The United National Party (UNP) is mooting a No Confidence motion against beleaguered Prime Minister, D.M. Jayaratne, over the allegations that his office had issued a letter to secure a duty waiver for a container, which had South Asia’s largest heroin haul concealed within. […]

– Union Minister V. Narayanasamy – Indian and Sri Lankan officials, along with representatives of fishermen, will meet to discuss the issues related to fishermen of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry on January 20 in Chennai, Union Minister V. Narayanasamy said on Sunday. […]