Leader of Opposition in Lok SabhaSushma Swaraj has apprised Prime MinisterManmohan Singh of discussions with Sri Lankan leadership during the visit of a MPs’ delegation led by her to look into the resettlement and rehabilitation process of displaced Tamils there. Swaraj called on Singh last evening to apprise him of the details of the 12-member delegation’s [...]
Sri Lanka’s rupee fell to a record 132.20 against the dollar on Tuesday as importers bought the U.S. currency on expectations of further weakening after the central bank decided to stop supplying dollars to meet oil bills from May. “The highest trade was done at 132.20 a dollar though there is only thin volume of [...]
Sri Lanka received “positive responses” from Saudi Arabian Oil Co. and Oman Oil Co. for supplies as the country seeks to reduce its dependence on Iranian crude, its oil minister said. The island nation, which imports 13 of its 14 annual crude cargoes from Iran, plans to cut shipments from Iran to 10 a year [...]
The Muslim Congress it is learnt has decided to quit the government if the president fails to take the required measures to address the incident that took place in the Dambulla Muslim mosque and the instigation that took place prior to the attack on the mosque. The Muslim Congress has received credible information that the [...]
Leaders of trade unions affiliated to the SLFP have been summoned to the Sri Lanka Foreign Employment Bureau auditorium on the 18th morning and during the meeting, they have criticized the conduct of the President and the government. They were summoned for the meeting to discuss the UPFA May Day rally. The meeting was attended [...]
President Mahinda Rajapaksa has asked JHU Secretary, Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka and NFF Leader, Minister Wimal Weerawansa to commence a campaign against former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunge and Opposition Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe. The President angered by the criticism leveled against the Alliance government’s foreign policies and the ethnic issue in India by Kumaratunge and Wickremesinghe. [...]
India’s decision to vote in favor of a United States sponsored UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) resolution censuring the Sri Lankan government for alleged Human Rights aberration during the ethnic conflict has raised several eyebrows. The sudden eagerness on the part of New Delhi to dump the stated policy of abstaining on country specific strictures [...]
Leader of Sri Lanka Marxist party dissidents and politburo member of the newly launched Frontline Socialist Party, Premakumar Gunaratnam said that he has not been engaged in any illegal activity but he was concerned about his identity for his safety. Gunaratnam, who went missing on the 6th after he was allegedly abducted and returned Tuesday [...]
The 2012 edition of Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack has chosen Sri Lanka’s former cricket captain Kumar Sangakkara as both the Leading Cricketer in the World for 2011 and one of the Five Cricketers of the Year. Sangakkara, most revered cricketer both locally and internationally, has become the first cricketer to earn both honors for the first [...]
JVP dissident leader Premakumar Gunarathnam and member of the dissident arm Dimuthu Attigala have been arrested early this morning, the JVP dissidents said. The dissident leader of the JVP was arrested in Kiribathgoda while Attigala had been arrested in Thalawathugoda, a spokesman of the media unit of the Progressive Socialist Party said. Speaking to the [...]
A day before the Sri Lankan Parliament is to discuss the United Nations Human Rights Council resolution asking it, among other things, to implement the recommendations of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission, an English newspaper reported that 150 terrorists, trained in India, have landed in Sri Lankan shores in the grab of fishermen to [...]
Ven. Elle Gunawansa Thero says that External Affairs Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris also known as G-rope Peiris is an agent for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The Thero has made the statement to a group of journalists who had visited his religious institute at Bauddhaloka Mawatha. The Thero has explained that GL had distanced the [...]
United Nations General Secretary, Ban Ki-moon, has expressed his desire to see the implementation of the recommendations of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission. Speaking to The Sunday Leader an official at the office of the spokesperson for the UN Secretary General explained that Ban Ki-moon has welcomed the US Resolution as it called for [...]
Source : Sunday Times Political Column If the debacle at Geneva last week was bad enough for President Mahinda Rajapaksa, some of the things some of his Ministers are saying in public are making matters worse for him. Public Relations Minister Mervyn Silva had already dropped a bombshell by making a public confession that he [...]
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