– by Janaka Alahapperuma – Pix by: Chandana Perera Vice Chairman of the Wadamarachchi Pradeshiya Sabha E. Santhasorupan and Vice Chairman of the Point Pedro Pradeshiya Sabha M. Logasinhem met President Mahinda Rajapaksa and pledged their support to the government today on 22 August. Both Tamil provincial leaders are representatives of Tamil National Alliance (TNA) […]

No milk powder containing DCD had been shipped to Sri Lanka from 1 June, the representatives of the diplomatic corps of New Zealand had assured the Sri Lankan government. During a high level discussion between the government and the representatives of the diplomatic corps of New Zealand, it was assured that no milk powder containing […]

– by Shenali D Waduge – Sri Lanka welcomes Ms. Pillay. After 30 years of terror Sri Lanka breathes freedom minus terrorist attacks and suicide missions. Civil crimes that take place everywhere round the world cannot compare to the fear 20million suffered during 3 decades of terror. 4 years on we hope that Ms. Pillay […]

The Report of the findings into the recent Rathupaswala – Weliweriya incidents, complied by a Court of Inquiry (C of I), presided by Major General N.A.J.C. Dias, Adjutant General  of the Army was handed over to the Commander of the Army Lieutenant General Daya Ratnayake, Wednesday (21) late evening at Army Headquarters. […]

Gampaha District Judge Chaturika de Silva yesterday ordered the Board of Directors of Fonterra to be present in court on August 23 on charges of contempt of court. […]

– by Janaka Alahapperuma – Pix by: Sudath Silva – The traditional ceremony to inform the head of the state on the successful completion of the historic Esala Festival took place at the President’s House in Kandy in the presence of President Mahinda Rajapaksa this afternoon on 21 August. The Perahera Sannasa (Scroll of Memorandum) […]

FILE PHOTO In June the Calgary Zoo, part of which sits on an island in the Bow River, was devastated by flooding. Two hippos almost escaped. The elephants stood in two feet of water, and the zoo suffered $50 million in damages. […]

– by Shenali D Waduge – For 25 centuries Sri Lanka was a nation that had prohibited animal slaughter of any kind by royal decree. The royal proclamations by the Sinhala Buddhist kings forbidding every citizen including visitor and trader to slaughter animals has not been repealed and questions why what did not exist under […]

  The Health Ministry Food Advisory Committee will release seven brands of milk powder from the harbour as ITI officials have confirmed that there was no DCD in the samples of these seven milk powder brands. […]

– by Janaka Alahapperuma – Pix by: Sudath Silva – The visiting princesses of Japan and Thailand paid homage to Sri Dalada Maligawa (Temple of the Tooth) in Kandy this afternoon (20) on Nikini Full Moon Poya Day. […]

COLOMBO, Aug 19 (Reuters) – Sri Lanka’s health ministry has decided to release a batch of milk powder made by companies including New Zealand’s Fonterra after tests for suspected dicyandiamide (DCD) contamination came back negative, officials said on Monday. […]

  – by Shenali D Waduge – The very organizations and individuals ever ready to pull out the red card of international human rights and laws have been chanting the chorus of a “sinhalization” of “historical Tamil areas” totally ignoring that it is the right of any citizen to live within the territory of the […]

Sri Lanka Sunday said it would “very much like” Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in November in Colombo even as Tamil Nadu parties have urged India not to participate in the event. […]

The police have arrested a son of former Deputy Minister of Power and Energy and leader of the 1971 insurrection, Athula Wimalasiri Jayasinghe, alias Loku Athula. […]

Suspicious seting fire to thousands of files containing important documents of the Colombo Municipal Council (CMC), the work of the Council’s Secretary’s Department has set the Council aflame with recriminations. Colombo Mayor A. J. M Muzammil yesterday ordered a report on the incident from CMC’s Internal Audit. […]

Two Air force personnel, including a woman were killed following a shootout at a guesthouse at Marble Beach, Trincomalee today. […]