The split group of Sri Lanka Marxist People's Liberation Front (JVP) has named the new political party they formed as Frontline Socialist Party.The party was launched today at a press briefing held in Colombo. It was addressed by the leaders of the new party, namely, Senadheera Gunathilaka, Pubudu Jayagoda, Chameera Koswatta and Duminda Nagamuwa.The leaders of the Frontline Socialist Party ...
Anand Dikshit of PWC India PricewaterhouseCoopers India told an investor forum in Colombo Sri Lanka's location and post-war growth opportunities make it well placed to emerge as a logistics hub for the region. "Recently, we met the fourth largest conglomerate in India and they told us 'Give me a port in Sri Lanka and we'll buy it right now'," Dikshit ...
Euro III grade petrol, which is used globally to run premium vehicles will be introduced by Lanka Lanka Indian Oil Corporation (LIOC) to Sri Lanka market from mid November, the company announced.EURO III will replace the company’s premium petrol brand “90 Octane”. It will be sold in in 120 LIOC outlets island wide.However Octane 90 petrol will continue to be ...
Former Mayor of Kandy city of Sri Lanka Kesara Senanayaka who was convicted for robbing public money was acquitted yesterday under a special presidential pardon.Senanayaka was convicted for defrauding funds allocated for a training in Thaiwan and touring in Singapore with his wife with that money.He was found guilty by Colombo Chief Magistrate for two counts. He was fined and ...
Sri Lanka's athletics has deteriorated and the number of players qualified for London Olympics this year looks like to be only three. Like all the other sports, athletics also has politicized. The persons that take the helm of the sports today do al except sports. The country lacks vision in sports and not only sports. Failure in the part of ...
Sri Lanka Minister of Transport Kumar Welgama speculated a bus fare hike in state owned Sri Lanka Transport Board (SLTB).He said that the loss making SLTB incurs an additional loss of Rs.2.2 million per day.Speaking at a media conference held at the Ministry of Transport Minister Welgama said the increase of price of diesel by Rs. 8 per liter is ...
University Grants Commission of Sri Lanka has introduced an online application process for university entrance for the first time in the history.The application process included submitting data and uploading a scanned soft copy of the national identity card of the student.The student must fill all the entries online and take a printout. After that, the application must be endorsed by ...
Sri Lanka now has a new harbor though no ships go there even an year after its grand opening. Harbor mouth was blocked by a rock. A large sum of borrowed foreign currency was spent to break the rock. It could be removed at a lower cost before hurriedly filling in water.After all, the port is ready now. However, 'innovative' ...
Sri Lankan Government appointed Competent Authorities, a Ministerial Sub Committee and an Officials Committee for 37 enterprises and assets that were recently took over from the private sector under Underperforming Enterprises and Underutilized Assets Act.However, non of these Competent Authorities seem competent to run these enterprises. All of them are engaged in other sectors then business. Some of them are ...
Minister with Ambassador of IranSri Lanka Minister of Power and Energy Champika Ranawaka said that his party had decided to join with any country to fight against US being the hammer instead of anvil. The Minister expressed these views addressing a seminar organized by his party Jathika Hela Urumaya in Sri Lanka Foundation Institute yesterday (12). The Minister said that ...
US has sent a New Year Greeting to Sri Lanka while some cabinet Ministers are publicly spreading anti-US ideas and urging boycott of US products and services.There is a saying in Sinhala folklore that both the one who is beating while the other is pleading mercy and the one who is pleading mercy while the other is beating are fools.It ...
Colombo Additional Magistrate Prasanna Alwis said in court today that the court could only issue warrants and it was the duty of police to arrest suspects.The magistrate expressed these views at the hearing of the case of murder of Sri Lanka President's official Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra and several others.Ruling United People's Freedom alliance MP Duminda Silva is an accuse of ...
Sri Lanka's Colombo Tamil party Democratic People's Front leader Mano Ganeshan says that the Sri Lankan Upcountry Tamils' will appeal a university established by India for them in hill country city Nuwaraeliya.Ganeshan said that the they would use the permission given by the Ministry of Higher Education of Sri Lanka to establish private universities to make this request.He further said ...
MP Wimal Weerawansa, a leader of Mahinda Rajapaksa camp of Sri Lanka will be summoned by Criminal Investigation Department (CID) for interrogation.He is to be questioned about his wife's use of forged national identity card and passport. She had a diplomatic passport also in her possession.CID informed court yesterday that Shashi Weerawansa's national identity cards and passports were erroneous.CID has ...
Sri Lanka's veteran leftist and leader of Democratic Left Front Vasudewa Nanayakkara used filthy Sinhala language words in parliament to blame Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe.Vasudewa called the Prime Minister 'Pakaya.'Pakaya in Sinhala language is similar to fucker.However, the word literally meant fruit in old Sinhala literature.Seventy-six years old Vasudewa Nanayakkara is a former Minister of National Languages.Speaker Chamal Rajapaksa warned ...
Sources close to the Bribery or Corruption Investigation Commission of Sri Lanka say that the resignation of Commissioner Keerthi Wimalachandra may be aimed at disrupting the functioning of the Commission.Retired judge of the Court of Appeal Keerthi Wimalachandra resigned on May 15th citing personal reasons, the same day the Speaker of the parliament endorsed the 19th amendment.Under the 19th amendment, ...
A Sri Lankan lawyer has complained to Mirihana police that he was manhandled by a group of persons including Buddhist monks.The lawyer, Sumith Silva, appeared for the suspects of a double murder in which two Buddhist monks were killed by two thieves in a temple in Kotte. He faced the inhuman attack on March 23 right in front of the ...
Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) secretary Hasan Ali says that the party supreme council will meet on April 28 to discuss the issue pertaining to a mosque in Dambulla town in the Central Province.The party officials says that the SLMC is on a firm stand that the mosque needed to remain as it is and it is not contented about ...
You may delete a blog post by mistake. Blogger does not provide facilities to undelete or to recover your item. There seems only one option now available to recover it.You may find other options in internet. But they do not appear to work properly in new blogger platform.The only option available is to find a cached copy of your post ...
Sri Lanka Central Environmental Authority has taken steps to bring in new laws to control the over use of vehicle horns.Chairman of the Central Environmental Authority Charitha Herath said that the bill in this regard now being compiled would be submitted to the cabinet and then tabled in parliament soon by the Minister of Environment.According to the regulations that is ...
