The ruling United People’s Freddom Alliance (UPFA) recorded another landslide victories in North Western (NW) and Central Provincial Councils elections held on September 21.. In North Western Province, the UPFA obtained 705,188 votes which 66% of the total votes cast in the province. […]

DMK president M. Karunanidhi on Sunday hailed the victory of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) in the provincial council polls held after a gap of 25 years in the former Tamil Tigers-ruled Northern Province in Sri Lanka. […]

– by Shenali D Waduge – No critic can say Sri Lanka is moving to ‘authoritarian’ rule given that a free and fair election has been held, the people of the Northern Province has voted for the 2nd time since the defeat of terrorism in 2009. What is important at this stage is to decipher […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa, along with First Lady Shiranthi Wickramasinghe Rajapaksa, left this morning on a five-day visit to New York during which he will address the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), taking place at the UN headquarters in New York City. […]

The SriLankan flight UL503 operating from Colombo to London Heathrow Airport was diverted and landed at Stansted (STN) Airport due to a “bomb threat” initiated by a passenger on board which is now appeared as “false claim,” an official said today. […]

Voting at the North, North Western and Central Provinces began at 7.00 am this morning  and will continue till 4.00pm in the evening today. […]

– by Shenali D Waduge – Ranil Wickremasinghe wanted to celebrate the arrival of Portuguese in 1505 and that lost him the election for his foolhardy suggestion not realizing Sri Lanka was a predominantly Buddhist nation and Portuguese banned the practice of Buddhism. The present scenario appears no different and our reservations to the Government […]

Some UNP supporters who were present at a meeting at Waikkal, Wennappuwa, booed at Minister Mervyn Silva on Wednesday (18), when he happened to go past the venue of the meeting, which had been organized by the Leader of the Opposition, Ranil Wickremesinghe. […]

(Reuters) – Voters in northern Sri Lanka go to the polls on Saturday in a provincial election that threatens to stir up old animosity between the government and ethnic minority Tamils. Defeat for the government of President Mahinda Rajapaksa would be largely symbolic, but victory for the main Tamil party could reignite calls for autonomy. […]

Election propaganda activities pertaining to the Northern, Central and North Western Provincial Council polls ended from midnight yesterday (18). […]

– by Shenali D Waduge  – A question on everyone’s mind is whether TNA would be able to achieve what Prabakaran could not and why the Government that stopped Prabakaran would allow an Eelam to emerge under its defacto political party the TNA? The answer to that question is not as easy to conclude which […]

The Consumer Affairs Authority (CAA) made the biggest raid in its history when officers recovered a huge consignment of expired food items which could be worth nearly Rs 100 million from a large storage in Kotahena yesterday. […]

– by Shenali D Waduge – President Obama and his Government, in fact even the Republicans appear far more concerned about deaths of Syrians in Syria by rebels that the US and Allies are arming, training financing and even feeding than the disaster situation unfolding across Colorado where 1300 Americans remain missing, 1502 residential structures […]

HT: Mr. Rajapaksa, in May 2009, your government and army managed to do something all previous governments in Sri Lanka had failed to do: end the 30-year-long civil war – one of the most brutal in the world – and decimate the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). What did you and your army do […]

The first killing related to the forthcoming provincial council election was reported from Puthukuduirippu, in Mullaitivu when a supporter of the UPFA was clubbed to death by other UPFA supporters on Monday night, sources said. […]

UPFA Chief Ministerial aspirant and former UNP MP Dayasiri Jayasekara yesterday warned that there could be a ‘computer Jilmaat’ when the votes were counted after the forthcoming PC polls in the Nortthwestern Province. […]