Sri Lanka’s former sport minister has denied claims that he made a 10-year-deal allowing the country’s cricketers to play in the Indian Premier League. Gamini Lokuge criticised his successor, current sports minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage, for making the claims. Last week Mr Aluthgamage ordered the players to return from the IPL by 5 May to prepare [...]
A diplomatic tussle is going on at present between the United Nations Secretary –General (UNSG) and the Government of President Mahinda Rajapaksa over the release of the report compiled by the three-member advisory panel appointed by Ban Ki moon. This is not a fresh development but only an extension of the “cold war” that has [...]
Sri Lanka on Thursday urged the United Nations not to make public a report on alleged war crimes committed during the civil war, saying the report would hinder reconciliation. ‘The release of the report would cause irreparable damage at a time when the country is looking for reconciliation,’ External Affairs Minister GL Peiris told a [...]
Tension escalates between the BCCI and the Sri Lankan board. BCCI has questioned the Sri Lanka board for calling back the players from the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL). BCCI has questioned the Sri Lankan cricket board for calling back the players on 5th may, but the Indian board claims that they were assured that [...]
The Opposition Deputy chief Organizer and Kurunegala district M P Dayasiri Jayasekera declared that the UNP is prepared to extend support to the Govt. and jointly face the report of the panel of experts appointed by UN Secretary Gen. Ban Ki Moon, provided that the former Army Commander Gen. Fonseka who won the war is [...]
Sri Lanka’s telephone density rose to 100.8 lines per 100 persons in 2010 showing that fixed and mobile connections had overtaken the population, in a telling demonstration of the results of ending a state monopoly. Telephone density rose from 86.6 in 2009 in a country with a population of 20.6 million, according to data published [...]
Following allegations of war crimes against the Sri Lankan government, a top human rights expert has said that India needs to make public its position on the issue. “India will have to take a public position,” Meenakshi Ganguly, South Asia director of Human Rights Watch, told PTI. Ganguly added that if India wanted to emerge [...]
Parliamentarians representing the UPFA from the Galle District have come forward to openly criticize the government as a result of the massive dissension growing within the government against the Rajapaksas. These details have surfaced when a journalist had questioned these parliamentarians about the development activities in the Galle District. Parliamentarian Ramesh Pathirana had said he [...]
Monies from the “Awakening Kelaniya” account commenced by Minister Dr. Mervyn Silva for the development of the Kelaniya area has reportedly gone missing. The account has been commenced by the Awakening Kelaniya Development Fund. A sum of Rs. 10,000 has been taken from each liquor store in the Kelaniya area every month for the account. [...]
France is opposed to the idea of sending its troops into Libya to break a military stalemate there, Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said on Tuesday. Juppe told reporters the military situation in the North African country was “difficult” and “confused” and said the West had underestimated Muammar Gaddafi’s ability to adapt his tactics in response [...]
Sri Lanka and the UN Panel of Experts’ report were listed in advance as topics of the Security Council briefing on the afternoon of April 18 by UN Department of Political Affairs chief Lynn Pascoe. Click here for that exclusive Inner City Press report. The issues had been so listed even before the leak, presumptively [...]
The United National Party (UNP) is seeking information regarding various ‘organizations and foundations’ ‘and those in cahoots with international NGOs’ that had contributed either directly or indirectly to the ‘attempt to oust Opposition leader Ranil Wickremesinghe from the party leadership,’ party sources say. According to informed UNP sources the UNP leader ‘had received details’ regarding [...]
JHU activist and Western Provincial Council member Udaya Gammanpila says Prime Minister D.M.Jayaratne should step down from his post as he is unable to conduct himself in a manner that upholds the dignity of the office he holds and is way beyond retirement age. “While there is a retirement age for public and private sector [...]
Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa yesterday lashed out at the UN experts panel report on the conduct of the Sri Lanka government and armed forces during the last stages of the war against the LTTE in 2009, saying there was an agenda behind the report and if the United Nations cannot protect one of its member [...]
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