Unidentified attackers in Sri Lanka have set fire to the offices of a website critical of the government. The staff at Lankaenews.com website had been coming under threat for some time. Police are now guarding the bungalow which the website uses as its office. The attackers broke the door and burned the rooms where the [...]
Somali pirates seized a Sri Lankan fishing vessel after killing two crew members and took three others hostage, Sri Lanka’s fisheries ministry said Monday. Pirates captured the boat as it strayed into Somali waters on January 27, the ministry’s director Lal Silva said. The captured fishermen, who left Sri Lanka’s southern town of Mirissa on [...]
It is more than three years since Marvan Atapattu exposed the national selectors as a bunch of “Jokers headed by a Muppet”. Well, now, Yahaluweni, maybe it is time for the public to attach that accurate laconic observation to the ‘men from the ministry’. Better known as the government appointed ad-hoc mob, they parade under [...]
Opposition Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe warned yesterday that a revolution similar to the one in Tunisia would be inevitable in Sri Lanka if the price of a kilo of rice went up to Rs 125 as expected. Addressing a rally in Gampaha, Mr. Wickremesinghe said the price of rice was slated to increase during the time [...]
It was just a few days ago that the Chairman of the Interim Committee of Sri Lanka Cricket – D.S. de Silva – during an interview with the BBC launched a tirade against local newspapers on reports that have appeared about the preparations of the three 2011 World Cup venues. he BBC report said: “Sri [...]
An arbitration panel in Singapore is to direct the Sri Lanka Government to pay a staggering US$ 94 million or Rs. 10.3 billion to the Citibank over oil hedging deals together with interest. The ruling is expected to be conveyed to the Government shortly, the Sunday Times learns. Petroleum Minister Susil Premajayantha told the Sunday [...]
Recent flooding in eastern Sri Lanka destroyed thousands of homes, devastated the rice crop and drowned thousands of livestock. A million people, 40 per cent of them children, are at risk of serious hunger as a result. Some of the worst-affected areas were only just recovering from decades of conflict and the tsunami when the [...]
The Tamil factor will play a significant role in the two elections scheduled to be held within the next two months on either side of the Palk- Strait. The four-party coalition led by Tamil National Alliance (TNA) is seeking mandate from the Tamil people of the north and the east to negotiate with the Sri [...]
ri Lanka Cricket today said it hadlost USD 125,000 after bad weather forced a one-day seriesagainst the visiting West Indies to be rescheduled. The series was due to be played in December but has beenpostponed to this month and early February, and reduced fromfive matches to three. Sri Lanka Cricket Chief Executive Ajith Jayasekera saidthe [...]
On March 13 1996, India played their last World Cup match at home. It was a disaster. Their opponents Sri Lanka were handed the match by default after crowd behaviour made it difficult for play to continue. India kept slipping behind the run rate while their wicket rate increased. It had been a sweltering day, [...]
Tata Motors Ltd. may expand sales of the Nano, the world’s cheapest car, to countries such as Thailand, Sri Lanka andBangladesh as early as this year as demand for the egg-shaped vehicle rebounds in India. “We will go after these markets one after another,” Tata Chief Executive Officer Carl-Peter Forster said yesterday at an auto-industry event in [...]
Former President of the UPFA and minister Nandana Gunathileka has blamed the senior UNP leaders of trying to carry out a mud slinging campaign against him at the local government elections by getting his wife to contest against him at the elections. It is learnt that Nandana Gunathileka had called several UNP leaders in a [...]
The Walana anti-vice squad has branded an innocent girl of Hambantota as a prostitute. Identified as Imesha Gayani of Bundalama, she had received a police message to meet the OIC of the squad on January 25. When she had visited the squad office, along with her mother and some other relatives, the police officer had [...]
Senior diplomats in Sri Lanka have expressed anger and frustration over foreign minister Prof. G.L. Peiris addressing ‘Sir’ to President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s secret affairs advisor MP Sajin Vaas Gunawardene and Namal Rajapaksa even in front of ministry officials. In a recent event in Hambantota where the minister once again put his foot in mouth saying [...]
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