The JHU is preparing to reveal to the country abouta conspiracy by UNP MP Rosy Senanayake to convert Buddhists to extremist Christian factions, reliable sources said. Sources said that Rosy, who is a leading members of the fundamentalist Born Again sect, has used her political affiliations to convert two new young MPs and one young [...]
The 26-year conflict ended in May last year with defeat for the Tamil Tiger separatists The BBC has been banned for a third time from covering an official panel’s investigation into the final phase of the Sri Lankan civil war. The panel visited Tamil prisoners at a top-security jail in Boosa in the south of [...]
Power and Energy Minister Champika Ranawaka is displeased with the order given by President Mahinda Rajapaksa to amend the proposed 8% electricity tariff increase that was to be made effective for users above 90 units, Power and Energy Ministry sources said. The President has ordered that the increase be applied to users over 120 units. [...]
Norway’s Erick Solheim has rejected claims made by minister Vinayagamurthi Muralitharan before the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission. Muraliatharan, also known as Karuna Amman, told the LLRC recently that Norway had given the LTTE large amounts of money to purchase weapons during the 2002 ceasefire. Also, the Norwegians had ulterior motives in pushing for a [...]
Sri Lanka’s main opposition United National Party (UNP) today said the government needed to explain its stance on the visit by the United Nations Panel of Experts probing the war in Sri Lanka. UNP parliamentarian Mangala Samaraweera told a press conference today that the government needed to explain its stance on the Panel and that [...]
Flight PK 268 from Karachi was behind schedule. Mohammed Farooq stared out of the window of the Pakistan International Airlines carrier and shifted uneasily in his seat. At an altitude of 9,500ft, the splendid view of the Chure Hills south of Kathmandu could not have calmed the nerves of the physically challenged Pakistani. It was [...]
A secret meeting had taken place between UNP MP Sajith Premadasa and UPFAMP and the MP overseeing the functions of the External Affairs Minister, Sajin Vass Gunawardena at the residence of casino businessman Ravi Wijeratne on the 25th evening, sources from Sirikotha said. Although details of the discussion are not known yet, it is learnt [...]
The ineffectual protester Wimal Weerawansa, the tree-loving lateral thinker Mervyn Silva, the determined Ranil Wickremesinghe who’s not willing to give up, jailed former war hero Sarath Fonseka or his permanently on the run son-in-law, Danuna Tilekeratne? Does journalist Prageeth Eknaligoda who disappeared without a trace in January deserve a mention? (And, I’m depending on the [...]
NO FOREIGN leader has fared worse in the cables released by WikiLeaks than Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who has been resisting calls for an international inquiry into possible war crimes committed when Sri Lankan troops wiped out the secessionist Tamil Tigers in May 2009. In this particular case, disclosure of an American diplomat’s confidential [...]
*SAARC Gold Medalist among suspects *Six leaders in custody *Gypsy men, women involved in racket Six men directing pickpockets and another 229 members were arrested in Colombo during the current festive season. This is the first time that such a large number of criminals involved in pickpocketing in Colombo were arrested in a short period, [...]
In February 1945, British and American aircraft dropped more than 3,900 tons of high-explosive and incendiary bombs on Dresden. “People were caught in fires as hot as 1000° C”, Britain’s National Archives record. “The city was devastated.” Investigations conducted by Dresden authorities concluded that between 22,700 and 25,000 people were killed. Five thousand miles and six decades separate [...]
Sri Lanka police are investigating a terrorist-style assassination of a public official of the Northern Province. Unknown assailants have fatally shot the Assistant Director of Education of Walikamam at Urumpirai, Kopai in Jaffna district yesterday around 11:30 p.m. police said. The victim succumbed to injuries after he was admitted to Jaffna hospital. A casing of [...]
Former Prime Minister and senior minister for good governance and infrastructure, Ratnasiri Wickremanayake has revealed the crisis within the government by openly criticizing the President’s conduct at a public meeting in Horana last Friday (24). Wickremanayake had criticized the manner in which the Cabinet reshuffle was conducted and had said that although the government claims [...]
According to reports from sources within the Army , over 60,000 soldiers have left the Army since they had not been subjected to the psychiatric or medical or rehabilitation evaluation after the end of the war . The former Army Commander General Sarath Fonseka who led the country to victory in the war at the [...]
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