The President has said that the removal of Sarath Fonseka from the post of Army Commander within a moth after the end of the war was a mistake and that he was misled by false information from the Indian intelligence units. The President had made this statement to two Army Generals who are very close [...]
Secretary of the JHU and Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka is facing a threat of losing his Power and Energy portfolio, a senior government minister said. He said that the decision has been prompted by reports received by the President from the State Intelligence Service that state Minister Ranawaka and several other JHU seniors had been [...]
Sri Lanka said Thursday it would fall in line with an International Cricket Council (ICC) directive aimed at banning government interference in national cricket boards. Sports Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage said an election would be held in January for the Sri Lanka Cricket Board which, for the past seven years, has been appointed by the government. [...]
Nicolas Sarkozy kept a cool head when he was grabbed by a man and nearly knocked to the ground during a visit to Brax on Thursday. The French president was greeting members of the public when the incident happened. He was unharmed and continued to shake hands after the initial shock of the moment. The [...]
The ICC has launched a probe into the allegations that tickets were black-marketed during the 2011 World Cup, co-hosted by India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. The governing body of the game received a confidential report, highlighting shortcomings in ticketing, during its Annual Conference meetings here. After its Executive Board meeting, the ICC received a detailed [...]
UNP MP Dayasiri Jayasekara stated that he will follow a middle path in order to ensure victory of the party and will not side with either Ranil Wickremasinghe’s faction or Sajith Premadasa’s. Participating in a media briefing held in Colombo today(29) Jayasekara stated that all internal conflicts within the party have now been resolved and disputes [...]
Israel reportedly sent message through Ankara following intelligence reports of unusual troop, missile movement, Kuwaiti paper reports. Israel sent a message to Syrian President Bashar Assad in recent days, warning him that if he started a war with the Jewish state in order to divert attention from domestic problems, Israel will target him personally, Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida reported [...]
Surveillance cameras are to be installed in private buses to ensure a better service to commuters. Private transport minister C.B. Ratnayake has said that these cameras would be able to nab bus workers who commit malpractices or engage in unprofessional conduct. Disregarding road rules, overloading, harassment of women and other wrongdoing could be prevented by [...]
In three years’ time, all subjects in universities will be taught in the English medium only, said higher education minister S.B. Dissanayake. The minister was speaking yesterday (June 27) during an inspection tour of Tisawewa engineering corp headquarters of the Army where university students are undergoing leadership training. He said 30,000 more English teachers would [...]
The United States urged Sri Lanka to move quickly to address allegations of war crimes, warning of rising pressure for international action if it does not. The State Department stopped short of endorsing calls for an international investigation into the bloody finale of the island’s civil war in 2009, saying that domestic authorities have primary [...]
The government has taken the initial step of selling degrees for money by quantitatively curtailing the number of students able to enter into the national university system, the United National Party accuses. Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva had stated at parliament that around 1000 foreign student will be afforded the chance to enter the country’s [...]
Arabic has recently been added to some street signs in the area, although most people speak Tamil Sri Lankan police are investigating an assault on two girls apparently accused of watching pornography in the east of the country last week. A group of men allegedly beat up the 17-year-olds after they came out of an [...]
The President Mahinda Rajapakse at his regular monthly media meeting this morning when he met the chiefs of the media had stated that he will never raise the monthly salary of a Professor to Rs. two lakhs. The President gave this as an answer to a question posed by the media . The question posed [...]
A report to be published by the government is to imply that Economic Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa was assigned the task of sending medical and food supplied to the North during the war and that he should be held responsible for any shortcoming in sending supplies to the North, a senior official from the Defence [...]
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