Murdered Thavisha Lakindu Peiris on his graduation day Credit: South Yorkshire Police The External Affairs Ministry yesterday called for a comprehensive report on the killing of a Sri Lankan Student in Yorkshire, England. The Ministry has informed the Sri Lankan mission in London to look into every detail with regard to the murder and the […]

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will be meeting his top political advisers to decide on whether he will travel to Sri Lanka for the CHOGM on November 15. Quite apart from the noise being made by Tamil political parties, almost everybody else will advise the PM to go. […]

While the government has given the impression the proposed Casino project in Colombo has been put on hold following stiff opposition, Crown chairman billionaire James Packer has told his shareholders the project was still on. […]

Vice Admiral Jayanath Colombage has been appointed as Chairman of the Ceylon Shipping Corporation (CSC) in addition to his present duties as the Commander of the Sri Lanka Navy. Colombage, Sri Lanka’s 18th Navy Commander, will take over from Kanchana Ratwatte who was named as Chairman for the national line Ceylon Shipping Corporation Ltd. (CSC) […]

A SRI Lankan pizza delivery man who came to England to earn money to support his family has been murdered while out working in South Yorkshire. Thavisha Peiris, who moved to Sheffield two-and-a-half years ago to study at university, was found dead late on Sunday night. Police have launched a murder investigation over the death […]

Government doctors have threatened to launch a countrywide strike on Nov. 4 over the delay in implementing the service minute. Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) media spokesman Dr. Navin de Soysa yesterday warned the government that his organization had decided to launch the strike due to the constant delay in implementing the service minute, which […]

– by Shenali D Waduge – ‘Damned if you do, damned if you don’t’ seems the challenge posed to Buddhists and an increasing number of indigenous people in different corners of the world as they face new cult type incursions. Not only is the new cult enveloping victims among the Muslims but by penetrating the […]

Criminal Investigation Department of the Sri Lanka Police today raided a counterfeit money printing press in Malabe and seized money worth Rs. 7 million in fake notes. All the fake currency was of the Rs. 2000 denomination police said. […]

The electricity supply in Colombo has been disrupted as a result of a high tension electricity supply line malfunctioning, the Ceylon Electricity Board said. […]

Luxury bus service along the Colombo- Katunayake Expressway was launched this morning. Twenty buses have been deployed at the Colombo- Katunayake Expressway. […]

Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam (DMDK) chief Vijayakanth on Sunday demanded that India should boycott the Commonwealth Heads of Government (CHOGM) summit in Sri Lanka as it would give ample opportunity for the island nation “to legitimise its war” against the Tamils. […]

– by Shenali D Waduge – What can we deduce when a former Supreme Court judge now turned Chief Minister of the Northern Province of Sri Lanka in the presence of the Governor of the North delivers a speech and tells the Governor in no uncertain terms that he is not welcome and must go […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa declared open the Colombo- Katunayake Expressway a short while ago. The Colombo-Katunayake expressway is Sri Lanka’s second E Class highway. […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa will vest with the people Sri Lanka’s 2nd Expressway, the Colombo Katunayake Expressway today. The 25.6 Km expressway will reduce the travel time between Kelani Bridge and Katunayake to 20 minutes. […]

Parents of students of a leading school in Kuliyapitiya are perturbed over an assignment given by the Ministry of Education to the students to welcome the delegation from Swaziland at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in a peculiar way. […]

At least three persons including an infant were killed and five others injured when a van carrying the victims had collided with a parked lorry at Karuwalagaswewa on the Puttalam-Anuradhapura main road in the early hours today, police said. […]