Sri Lanka government seems succeeded finally in making its white elephant Hambanthota Port a worthy place where business occurs.The port is a massive corruption which swallowed public money due to craze of politicians who filled in it with water before the completion of blasting rock at the mouth of the harbour cut into the land. The pit was filled in ...

Indian media reported that a group of more than 150 Sri Lankans have been arrested by Indian police at Kollam beach of coastal line of Kerala state of India.They are suspected of attempting to migrate to Australia via sea.The arrested group comprised of nineteen women and twenty two children. They have revealed that they paid Rs. 500,000 each for the ...

"If any authorized person ordered the killing of surrendering LTTE cadres, he should be brought before the law.I am not content with the Court’s ruling and not at all surprised with the verdict. I, along with the masses, hoped that the trial would mete out justice.Before publishing a string of lies, people should have been informed. Fredericka Jansz had recently ...

Information and Computing Technology Agency (ICTA) of the Sri Lanka Regional Director of Health Services- Kegalle together with Lunar Technologies have introduced a free and open-source software system used to store and retrieve a simple patient medical record.The software is named as Hospital Health Information Management System (HHIMS).Designed mainly for Sri Lanka government hospitals, it has been currently installed in ...

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Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa will declare open the first semi government fish canning factory at Galle in the Southern Province tomorrow.The factory is a joint venture of Sri Lanka Fisheries Corporation and Happy Cook Lanka Foods Private Limited.The project saw an investment of Rs. 840 million.The factory has the capacity of producing 10,000 fish cans a day. They will ...

Sri Lanka Ministry of Higher Education said in a statement that the circular in relation of rectifying the salary anomalies of the university academic and non-academic staff would be sent to the Vice Chancellors tomorrow.The media spokesman of the Federation of University Teachers' Associations (FUTA) Dr. Mahim Mendis yesterday said that the token strike scheduled on January 17 would be ...

Indian High Commission of Sri Lanka denied media report that terrorists were trained in Tamil Nadu as “erroneous and baseless.”The Divaina Sinhala nationalist newspaper report said that police found through interrogation of three suspects of a murder of an activist of Ealam People's Democratic Party (EPDP) that 150 terrorist trained in three locations in Tamil Nadu had returned to Sri ...

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Issuing a media release, the Ministry of Media and Information has asked the administrators of the websites to register the ministry.The administrators can contact Ms. K.W.T.N. Amarathunga, the Additional Secretary (Development and Planning) of the Ministry via the telephone +94112513943 or the email secretary@media.gov.lk to obtain application forms and information, the Ministry says.Information regarding registration is also available in www.media.gov.lk ...

Sri Lanka's latest political party, Frontline Socialist Party (FSP), held its inaugural convention today and appointed the central committee.The central committee comprises Premakumar Gunarathnam and Dimuthu Atigala that were abducted hours ahead of the convention and remain disappeared so far.Many former internal leaders of the People's Liberation Front (JVP) such as Senadheera Gunathilaka, G. Kularathna and Champika Sudasinghe are in ...

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Sources close to Sri Lanka's major Tamil and Muslim parties point out that a Tamil Muslim coalition is likely to form at the Eastern Provincial Council election.Sources say that the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) and Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) are likely to form a political alliance for the Eastern Provincial Council.However, the SLMC Supreme Council is to take the ...

Sri Lanka Minister of Higher Education S.B. Disanayaka argued that the closure of the rural schools is a characteristic of development.The Minister addressing a meeting held in Udunuwara to mark distribution of school equipment to the children of low income group people, the Minister said that around 2300 schools country wide had not received a single application for Grade 01 ...

Sri Lanka government has become tough on media that is critical on it. The offices of two websites were raided and several journalists were arrested on June 29.Police Criminal Investigation Department (CID) raided the offices of Sri Lanka Mirror and Sri Lanka X News websites by 11 a.m. yesterday and arrested eight persons, reports say.The government says that the websites ...

Sri Lanka police nabbed around 119 persons who attempted to migrate illegally to a foreign country.Police say a set of racketeers who were involved in the trafficking have also been arrested.The arrested persons included six who handled the trafficking 'racket'. The others were young men who had paid around Rs. 200,000 to them to go abroad.Rs. 200,000 does not rationalize ...

Colombo Municipal Council sources say that the municipality will take legal action against the organizers of the Udith Narayan musical show held in Colombo CH & FC grounds on June 16.Colombo Municipal Council sources say that the organizers have evaded paying the 10% entertainment tax although they sold a large number of tickets at the crowded show.The tax valuers that ...

Sri Lanka Ministry of Trade says that the export of rice has been suspended until the next bounty harves is yielded. Sri Lanka recently had a surplus of rice stocks and they were exported in minor scale.Accordingly, the country will not export rice until the first quarter of 2013 in which the Maha harvest is yielded. The decision to suspend ...

Bharatha Lakshman PremachandraSri Lanka parliament approved three months leave to the ruling United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA) MP Duminda Silva.This is the third consecutive three months leave approved to MP Duminda Silva and the leave is to be active since June 24.Silva sustained severe injuries at a shoot out in Kaduwela on October 08, 2011. President Mahinda Rajapaksa's oficial Bharatha ...

Sri Lanka Government Medical Officers' Association (GMOA) says that the doctors of the Northern and Eastern Provinces will hold a token strike on June 12 in protest of not granting appointments to the doctors who have completed their internship.The new doctors have consented to go to service in difficult areas and around 200 doctors presently working in these areas are ...