theNEWSmaster: COLOMBO; According to informed sources, the widow of the late SLFP MP and Presidential Advisor Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra has agreed to a number of terms put forward by the president, at a recent meeting held at the Temple Trees. Upon an invitation extended by the President, Mrs. Premachandra had visited the Temple Trees. The sudden call from the ...
theNEWSmaster: COLOMBO; High Court Judge W.T.M.P.B. Warawewa has revealed that a request made by the Attorney-General’s Department to further extend his term of office by a year to enable him to hear several pending cases has been refused by the Chief Justice. “The Attorney General’s Department requested that I be reappointed to hear and conclude several important cases including ...
theNEWSmaster: COLOMBO; The Sri Lankan Government on Thursday (12) dismissed a cssed a claim made by its former Navy Commander Thisara Samarasinghe on secret police forces operating within the country. Speaking to an Australian newsagency, the present Sri Lankan High Commission in Australia, Thisara Samarasinghe noted that "there's a police force and other elements of the police force which ...
theNEWSmaster: COLOMBO; Minister of Higher Education S. B. Dissanayake says, pressure exerted by various quarters including highly influential authorities and others who expected to enroll students at overseas universities triggered the hasty release of the 2011 GCE Advanced Level results that contributed to the ranking mess-up. Addressing a group of media personnel at a briefing held at the ministry ...
theNEWSmaster: COLOMBO; The Sri Lankan government, in a communique issued via its Media ministry yesterday (05) had ordered news websites to register with the Ministry. The order, which some observe as a 'warning' issued on critics of the present regime, came into the lime light as several internet service providers blocked a number of news websites to the Sri ...
theNEWSmaster: COLOMBO; The state-run 'Dinamina' newspaper had published contradictory statements in two articles published in its October 11, 2011 edition. The reports are based on the police presence during the political gunfight in Mulleriyawa, three days ago. In one report by Wijayani Edirisinghe, it says the CID has found that no policemen had been present at the scene at ...
theNEWSmaster: COLOMBO; Following the defeat the UNP faced in the recent local council elections, the UNP reformists had announced that they would resume their struggle to revamp the party. UNP reformist and parliamentarian Ranjith Madduma Bandara had said they had put off their struggle for party reforms until the elections were over because they wanted to avoid the party ...
theNEWSmaster: COLOMBO; Parliamentarian Duminda Silva is now out of danger following the serious injuries he suffered in a gunfight atMulleriyawa this afternoon (Oct. 08), said hospital sources. The Sri Jayawardenepura Hospital, where he is in ICU treatment, is being guarded by his support
theNEWSmaster: COLOMBO; President Mahinda Rajapakse, addressing an pre-election rally in Colombo had said that some websites publish absolute lies defamatory news reports. The President, as he returned in the island following his visit to America to address the United Nations General Assem
theNEWSmaster: COLOMBO; MP Duminda Silva, who was admitted to Sri Jayawardanepura (SJP) hospital, due to head injuries has been taken out of the operating theatre at 9pm, hospital sources say. It was earlier reported by some media that two bullets were removed from Silva's head. However, S
theNEWSmaster: COLOMBO; The Registrar of the Sri Lanka Medical Council, N. J. Nonis, was assaulted by an unidentified gang in Moratuwa, yesterday (04) evening. According to the deputy secretary of the GMOA (Government Medical Officers Association) Dr. Upul Gunasekara, two undentified men h
theNEWSmaster: NETHERLANDS; The Tamil community in the Netherlands (between 9,000 and 13,000 men) has been "largely annexed" by the Tamil Tigers to the violen
theNEWSmaster: COLOMBO; Vice Chancellors in Universities have written to the Higher Education Ministry informing their objection to the decision to hand over the security arrang
theNEWSmaster: COLOMBO; Accepting a challenge made by Mohamed Maharoof demanding for a public debate, an office assistant at the 'Sirikotha' UNP headquarters has step
