Sri Lanka Minister Harsha de Silva expressed dissatisfaction about the situation in the housing in recently released former High Security Zone land of Palaly."Yes the roads are fabulous and buildings are coming up, but we need to be more humane about what people really want," the Minister said.The Minister visited a resettlement of some 120 families on his way back ...
Sri Lanka will hod a two day parliamentary debate on the resolution passed in the UNHRC on Sri Lanka.The party leaders of the parliament have agreed to hold this debate on April 4 and 5. MP Anura Kumara Disanayaka of People's Liberation Front made the proposal in this regard.Minister of External Affairs Prof. G.L. Pieris said that the stand of ...
Sri Lanka's state owned The Dinamina newspaper report4ed that the International University of Fundamental Studies (IUFS) of St. Peters berg, Russia is not a recognized university.According to the newspaper, the Russian Embassy of Colombo has stated that the the university is not recognized by the government of Russia. However, the website of the university says a different story. It says, ...
Inspector General of Sri Lanka police N.K. Illangakoon says that the police emergency call centers will be decentralized.Accordingly, police emergency call centers will be established at provincial level, the police chief says.Two new rooms of the police emergency call service were opened today at Mirihana police station by the Inspector General of Police.Police emergency call center received 5491 emergency ...
Sri Lanka's former President Mahinda Rajapaksa vowed on May 22nd that he would change the system soon."We shall change this. Before long, we shall change," he said to a violently cheering crowd in the Buddhist temple.He said this addressing religious function held in Mahawapi temple in Ampara in the Eastern Province.The former President highlighted in his speech that those who ...
Still, school children visit Colombo planetarium as a regular place of their visit to the capital city. I visited it once when I was a school boy and due to nostalgia I went there once again as a young man. It was not as exciting as it was in the earlier visit. As well, it was not as big as ...
Sri Lanka' orthodox Buddhist extremists attacked a Fundamentalist Buddhist monk who who claims himself a superior at Baddegama town in the Galle district of Southern Province.The monk was attacked as he was arriving for a sermon. His unarmed guards that attempted to make way to proceed with the planned sermon were brutally assaulted by orthodox Buddhists.A group of Buddhist extremists ...
Sri Lanka Minister of Higher Education S.B. Disanayaka recently argued that the closure of schools is a sign of development. Then what about opening police stations or prisons?Sri Lanka Police Department sources say that President Mahinda Rajapaksa has instructed the Inspector General of Police N.K. Illangakoon to submit a report regarding the need of establishing new police stations and police ...
Egyptian former President Hosni Mubarak was sentenced for life for killing his countrymen in protests against him in 2011. His Minister of Home Security also went to jail with him. His sons are yet to see their destiny after lavishly eating public money for their luxuries. Liberian former President Charles Taylor was sentenced for over 50 years for exchanging arms ...
Sri Lanka Minister of Education Bandula Gunawardana reiterated that a Sri Lankan person can live with less than Rs. 2500 per month.The Minister made this remark last week also and many persons laughed off his statement while some expressed anger. However, the Minister addressing a meeting held in Ananda College, Colombo yesterday, reiterated his idea, as reported by Sinhala daily ...
A group of persons allegedly the supporters of Sri Lanka government MP Jagath Pushpakumara have reportedly taken over the Sevanagala Sugar Factory.Daya Group of Companies that own this factory say that the managers of the factory have been removed from the premises and some employees have been assaulted.Sevanagala Sugar Factory is an asset slated to be taken over under Revival ...
Sri Lanka police say that Navy arrested 53 more persons off Nilaveli sea in the eastern coast as they were attempting to migrate illegally to Australia.The arrested persons have been handed over to the Criminal Investigation Department for further investigations, police say.Of the 53 persons, 41 are Tamils, five are Muslims and seven are Sinhalese, police say. Two are women.They ...
The teachers of the Kelaniya University of Sri Lanka have decided to walk away on December 21 in protest of the Dean of Science Faculty Prof. Nalin de Silva. The Association of University teachers of Kelaniya University says that they will hold a meeting in the university premises and hold a protest march too. The university teachers have been angered ...
Renowned international cricket commentator of Sri Lanka Ranil Abeynaike passed away at 57 years age following a heart attack.He was a first class cricketer in Sri Lanka in the time Sri Lanka was not a test playing country.He was a right-handed batsman and a slow left orthodox bowler. He played for the Sinhala Sports Club and Bedfordshire during his first ...
Sri Lanka Customs is now extremely vigilant regarding import of vehicles as parts. A container included vehicles worth of Rs. 20 million without taxes was arrested by Custom Department was seized on April 10 at Colombo harbor.The importer, a vehicle businessman in Kurunegala attempted to get the container released after paying import taxes for vehicle parts that is lower than ...
Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa has decided to appoint a committee to probe the issues related to the G.C.E. Advanced Level examination results.The committee will probe the irregularities of the result issuing process of the highly competitive examination and it is assigned to forward recommendations to prevent recurrence of such incidents.Minister of Higher Education S.B. Disanayaka says that recommendations will ...
The rebel group os Sri Lanka Marxist People's Liberation Front has decided to form a new political party, a spokesman of the group said.The new party named as New People's Liberation Front (NJVP) will be launched on April 09 at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium.The spokesman further said that the elusive leader of the JVP rebel group Premakumar Gunarathnam will also ...
Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) sources say that the President Mahinda Rajapaksa has directed the party officials to take disciplinary action against the trouble monger Minister of Public Relations Mervin Silva.The sources said that the President openly directed the SLFP general secretary Maithripala Sirisena to take action against the Minister at the SLFP central committee meeting held on Thursday.Accordingly, a ...
Sri Lanka Marxist People's Liberation Front (JVP) has planned to collect signatures of the farmers seeking increase of registered price of a kilo of paddy. The JVP demands the government to increase the registered price of a kilo of paddy to Rs. 40. Presently, the government registered price for paddy is Rs. 30 for a kilo of Samba and Rs. ...
People's Liberation Front (JVP) leader Anura Kumara Disanayaka said that the discussion held today between President Maithripala Sirisena and the leaders of the political parties representing parliament would be crucial.Disanayka said that the President had promised to them to dissolve the parliament unless the parties would not agree for the 20th amendment to the constitution.He also said that the President ...
