US has said it is in touch with the defeated Sri Lankan Opposition Presidential candidate over the issue of his security which was withdrawn on Thursday and has urged President Mahinda Rajapaksa to move towards a political reconciliation. “We are watching carefully and we have been in touch with General Fonseka regarding his security”, US [...]
Private Sector employees of Sri Lanka are to receive a pay raise, the Labour Ministry announced. Secretary to the Labour Ministry Mahinda Madihahewa said measures have been taken to grant a 15 % salary increase to the private sector employees with the minimum salary being 5,750 rupees. The measure is taken to provide relief to [...]
A series of recent events connected to the presidential election last week give rise to extremely serious concerns about the state of democracy in Sri Lanka today. The campaign period, the election and its aftermath were marred by unprecedented disregard for the Constitution and the law, resulting in not only violence and large-scale abuse of [...]
A newspaper which supported the opposition has been suspended The wife of a Sri Lankan journalist who mysteriously disappeared one week ago has pleaded that he be freed by whoever is holding him. Prageeth Eknaligoda’s colleagues said he wrote articles favourable to losing presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka. Gen Fonseka lost last Tuesday’s election to the [...]
Riding high on his battlefield victory against the Tamil Tiger rebels and his landslide re-election, Sri Lanka’s president appears under little pressure to tackle the deep ethnic tensions that fueled a generation of conflict here. Any effort to empower the marginalized Tamil-speaking minority could only anger Sinhalese nationalists, and many observers fear that an opportunity [...]
Eight months into the death of LTTE chief V. Prabhakaran, the proclaimed offender in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, India is yet to receive his death certificate from the Sri Lankan authorities, the Press Trust of India reported. According to information accessed under the Right to Information Act, India’s CBI said it was still awaiting the [...]
President Mahinda Rajapaksa has revoked a decision to cancel the visa of a Swiss journalist who is in Sri Lanka to cover the Presidential elections. The journalist of a Swiss radio station was earlier ordered to leave by tomorrow, the government information department said. Karin Wenger of Swiss Public Radio had said last week that [...]
Defeated Sri Lankan presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka denied on Saturday he was seeking political asylum abroad, but said several countries had asked Colombo to stop harassing him. Fonseka, who lost Tuesday’s presidential election to the incumbent, Mahinda Rajapakse, said his security detail had been withdrawn, leaving him open to assassination, while supporters and party workers [...]
One of the most amazing and probably the ugliest fish in the world, the blobfish, is on the brink of extinction. This weird creature does not look like fish at all. It has no scale and no clear-cut fins. It does have something that looks like a face with eyes placed wide apart, a large [...]
American actress Jennifer Lopez’s ex-husband Ojani Noa’s representative has revealed that he will question her about her sexuality in open court. The announcement came as the ongoing dispute between Lopez, 40, and Noa faced another round in court with a judge rejecting the actress’ attempt to send the matter to arbitration. Noa has been attempting [...]
Sri Lankan Police on Saturday shut down the office of a pro-opposition newspaper in Colombo after taking its editor into custody over reports that criticsed a top government official. The office belonging to the ‘Lanka’ newspaper was sealed off by the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) based on a court order, police said. ‘Lanka’ is affiliated [...]
A senior member from Sri Lanka’s opposition alliance said here Saturday that a panel has been appointed to review the outcome of Tuesday’s presidential election, “We have appointed a committee to look into the allegation of wrongdoing in the announcement of the result,” Mano Ganesan of the Democratic People’s Front, a member party of the [...]
Former Army Commander General Sarath Fonseka, speaking at a press briefing a short while ago, warned that he will expose government secrets should anything happen to him and demanded that the government stop harassing him. The former Army Commander said that he has filed detailed documents in which he has listed malpractices of government officials [...]
President Rajapaksa is being urged to deal with Sri Lanka’s ethnic divides President Mahinda Rajapaksa stands triumphant in Sri Lanka. A number of factors helped sweep him to re-election victory on Tuesday: his fiery rhetoric and sure popular touch; his emphasis on his role in last year’s war victory; and ordinary people’s sense that their [...]
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