COLOMBO, July 4 (Reuters) – Sri Lankan rupee steadied near an eight-month low in early trade on Thursday, with a state-run bank selling dollar at 130.60 rupees as the local currency remained under pressure on concerns of further foreign outflows. […]

A prominent underworld drug-leader Mohammed Azmir alias ‘Mamazmi’, was shot dead last night at Borella, police said. […]

– by Janaka Alahapperuma – Pix by: Sudath Silva New High Commissioners from Canada and India taking assignments in Sri Lanka presented their credentials to President Mahinda Rajapaksa at 10.45am on 03 July (Wednesday) at a ceremony held at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo. […]

  – by Shenali D Waduge – There is a common thread that runs through the histories of Buddhist countries; they have all been the victim at one time or the other of aggressive incursions made by people of Abrahamic faiths i.e. Christians or Muslims. This process has not ended. It still continues unabated and […]

  – by Shenali D Waduge – Is it not strange that ALL the protagonists now coming forward to argue that the 13th amendment should continue to prevail alongside the provincial council system are ALL those who openly propagated the notion of “unwinnable war” and the federal option pushed by Western liberalists to devolve powers […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday directed the Sri Lanka Railway authorities to take prompt action to initiate a security system to install railway gates to prevent accidents at railway crossings. […]

COLOMBO, July 2 (Reuters) – The Sri Lankan rupee extended falls early on Tuesday to trade around its near eight-month lows on importer demand for the greenback, with concerns over further foreign outflow from government securities also hurting the currency, dealers said. […]

A cricket star searching for the lavatory on a trans-Atlantic flight allegedly caused panic among passengers yesterday when he tried to open the cabin door at 35,000ft. […]

Sri Lanka will send President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s younger brother Basil Rajapaksa to Delhi to hold talks with Indian leadership over its controversial plan to tinker with the India-moved thirteenth amendment (13A), government sources today said. […]

  – by Shenali D Waduge – Both the Indo-Lanka Peace Accord signed in 1987 and the subsequent amendment to Sri Lanka’s Constitution needs to be looked comparing the background in which it emerged and the relevance to the current context of the political scene for both India and Sri Lanka. At the time Tamil […]

– by Janaka Alahapperuma – Pix by: Sudath Silva The President of the Republic of Seychelles, James Alix Michel warmly welcomed the arrival of his Sri Lankan counterpart President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the airport in the capital city of Seychelles.  At the invitation of President Michel, President Rajapaksa will be undertaking the historic state visit […]

The Tamil National Alliance on Saturday decided not to participate in the Parliamentary Select Committee appointed to resolve the national problem, a party official said. […]

Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa has complained to his mobile phone service provider that his phone is being tapped by an organised team with the intention of gathering national security secrets, according to a newspaper report. […]

– by Janaka Alahapperuma – (Pix by: Sudath Silva) President Mahinda Rajapaksa who is currently in Tanzania for a five-day official tour graced the opening ceremony of the Global Smart Partnership Dialogue- 2013 which is taking place in parallel to the 50th anniversary of the African Union. […]