Northern Province Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswaran told the inaugural meeting of the recently elected Council that he was ready to exercise police and land powers granted to the PCs by the 13th Amendment to the Constitution […]

– by Shenali D Waduge – The Committee for the Protection of Journalists – CPJ has released a list of 19 ‘journalists’ it claims to have been killed since 1992 in Sri Lanka. CPJ includes 39 journalists killed worldwide in 2013 – none reported in Sri Lanka since January 2009. In total 1007 journalists are […]

In a show of solidarity, political parties in Tamil Nadu Assembly and outside supported Chief Minister Jayalalithaa’s resolution against India’s participation in the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Sri Lanka. […]

Defence Secretary, Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, clearly stated that maintaining law and order in the Northern Province is the responsibility of the Chief Minister, C.V. Wigneswaran, but added that the Chief Minister has no power to issue orders to the police. He said the Leader of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA), R. Sampanthan, has to establish peace […]

The writ application filed by Nipuna Ramanayake and his mother G. Ramanayake in the Court of Appeal requesting to indict former DIG Vas Gunawardena over the alleged abduction and assault of the former by Ravindu Vas Gunawardena was withdrawn. […]

Tamil Nadu has asked the Centre to boycott the Commonwealth meet in Colombo next month over Sri Lanka’s alleged war crimes against Lankan Tamils and the arrest of fishermen from the state for straying into Lankan waters. […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa has said that the public are inconvenienced periodically by the decisions that are taken on development projects. The President expressed these views at a discussion held at temple trees on Wednesday. The discussion was held to collect ideas and proposals from the deputy ministers for the preparation of the 2014 budget. […]

Four persons have been arrested in connection with assaulting the principal of the Dharmapala Vidyalaya in Kottawa yesterday (October 23), police stated. […]

The main opposition United National Party (UNP) said today that it would continue to oppose the Casino Bill notwithstanding the format it would be presented in. […]

– by Shenali D Waduge – In the absence of Western influenced local press opting not to highlight the injustices to Africa by Western Christian colonial rule, this attempt is to place before readers a part of history kept in the dark so that people realize who the real criminals are. There is no meaning […]

On a proposal made by President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the Commonwealth Business Forum held at Perth, Australia in 2011 it had been agreed to allow participation of representatives from non commonwealth countries as well in the Commonwealth Business Forum to be held in Sri Lanka.  Accordingly, 500 local businessmen and industrialists from Sri Lanka and […]

The Casino Bill (Strategic Development Project Bill), which was rejected at the Party Leaders’ Meeting on Monday night, will be tabled in Parliament again, after making amendments to it before Budget 2014, Minister of Investment Promotion, Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena, told journalists yesterday. […]

Seventy two people have been hospitalised following a gas leak from a factory in Piliyandala, Police said a short while ago. […]

(Reuters) – A Bulgarian fugitive convicted in the suffocation deaths of 18 Sri Lankan stowaways who died in the back of a truck he was driving nearly two decades ago has been arrested near Seattle and faces possible extradition to his home country, U.S. authorities said on Monday. Plamen Vladimirov Trifonov, 58, was found guilty […]

Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) is negotiating with government officials to have a whopping sum it owes two state institutions written off. The construction of cricket stadiums at Hambantota, Pallekele and R. Premadasa in the lead-up to the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 cost SLC a fortune and it still owes a further Rs. 3.2 billion […]

  – by Shenali D Waduge – With only days apart for the Commonwealth Heads of Government to arrive in Sri Lanka for what is being looked forward to as ‘the’ most prestigious event on Sri Lanka’s calendar; what cannot escape attention is the manner that Sri Lanka’s Press has been functioning. No one argues […]