The disciplinary committee appointed by the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) to probe the incident of a Samurdhi officer being tied to a tree at Kelaniya, has decided that former Deputy Minister Mervin Silva is not guilty. The three-member committee which handed over its report to President Mahinda Rajapaksa has stated that there was no [...]
COLOMBO — Sri Lanka on Saturday suspended plans to scrap on-arrival visas for most nationals, including visitors from the US, Europe, Australia and Japan. The government had announced it was withdrawing the landing endorsements from September 30 in a move widely seen as potentially damaging to the island’s tourism industry, which is recovering from 37 [...]
RIYADH: The Sri Lankan Embassy received on Saturday the medical report regarding the Sri Lankan housemaid who was found with 24 nails and needles embedded in her legs, arms, hands and forehead, allegedly pushed into her body by the Saudi couple she worked for as a method of punishment. A video statement from the victim [...]
The Government has taken steps to launch a project to digitally map the country to create a database and the pilot project will be started from the Gampha district today. The Ministry of Economic Development and Ministry of Defence with the assistance of the Kelaniya University has launched this special project, Minister of Public Administration [...]
Though most critics talked about the war in Sri Lanka no one spoke of the hardships the armed forces had to undergo to defeat the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), said Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa during his submissions to the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Committee (LL&RC) in Colombo today. The government had to study [...]
Opposition parties in Sri Lanka Wednesday were up in the arms against the court martial of former Army chief Sarath Fonseka, who played a key role in crushing the Tamil rebels last year, thus ending a two decades-long ethnic conflict in the island country. Opposition leader Ranil Wickremesinghe has asked the ruling government to table [...]
Desmond Tutu and Kofi Annan have made several unverified claims about Sri Lanka. In addition, based on these inaccurate claims, they have made ridiculous recommendations. Little that these gentlemen realize, there are two sides to the same story. Often information reaching them could be polluted by Tamil racist elements that habitually monger racism, hatred, suicide [...]
Sri Lankan military court has convicted Sarath Fonseka, a former army chief, of meddling in politics, the AFP news agency has reported quoting a senior military source. “The guilty verdict was read out to General Fonseka at the court martial a short while ago,” the military source told AFP on Friday. “The president as commander-in-chief [...]
Commercial vehicle manufacturer Ashok Leyland has bagged an order worth $26 million to export 1,000 buses to Sri Lanka by March 2011. The order is for Viking buses with seating capacity varying from 42 and 58. The buses will be supplied to People Leasing Company, which in turn will sell these to the private sector [...]
President Mahinda Rajapaksa has stripped Mervyn Silva from his deputy minister post and the Sri Lanka Freedom Party has cancelled his party membership, President’s media told a short while ago. The incident involving Minister Mervin Silva sparked protests from the opposition and development officers. According to officials in the Presidential Secretariat, the Highways Minister has [...]
