Karandeniya is an insignificant tiny town in Southern Province of Sri Lanka. However, Karandeniya hit headlines yesterday due to violence in a post-murder scenario.A doctor businessman who owned a channeling center was brutally assassinated on September 29 and the mystery came to light almost a month after.Read the incident here: Bloody competition for doctor channeling come to light in doctor ...
Police Media Spokesman Ajith Rohana said that 22 persons who were staying in various places hoping to migrate illegally to Australia were arrested yesterday morning from Chilaw.Investigations have been started regarding the aspirant illegal migrants and more arrests are expected to take place.Ajith Rohana said that among the 109 persons who were recently arrested while attempting to migrate illegally en ...
A Sri Lankan lawyer attacked by a Buddhist monk near a courtSri Lankan lawyers including the Legal Aid Commission have rejected to appear against suspects of the assassination case of Major General Janaka Perera and a number of others.Two persons are indicted in High Court for the assassination of the politician turned military leader who was killed in a suicide ...
Sri Lanka government has increased the production tax on motor vehicles with effect from midnight March 31, 2012 and as a result the overall taxes on most of the vehicles have gone sharply up.Accordingly, the overall tax on hybrid motor cars go up like this.Less than 2000 cc - 60% (up 9%)Above 2000 cc - 125% (up 25%)Above 2000 cc ...
A website in Sri Lanka reported today that the former Army Commander Sarath Fonseka is suffering from a severe bronchitis.Fonseka who is jailed now was admitted into Nawaloka private hospital last week following a court order due to serious illness.Fonseka has been provided with nebulizer treatment every four hours, sources close to his family said to media.Hospital sources say that ...
Sri Lanka government sources say that focus is on increasing the price of fuel.Sri Lanka Petroleum Corporation says that the loss from petrol is Rs. 2, the loss from diesel is Rs. 27 and the loss from kerosene is Rs. 39.The loss to the Corporation is reportedly increasing and the government is under pressure for increasing the price, sources say.Sources ...
-Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport Sri Lanka We, as the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport Sri Lanka, wish to congratulate the Road Development Authority on the completion of the Southern Expressway With its completion, Sri Lanka will experience the first ever expressway facility.This super highway experience will be new to Sri Lanka, and we expect that it will ...
Puttalam of Sri Lanka was one time famous for donkeys.Following story is not about donkeys but about an MP that represents Puttalm district. He is a law maker of this country.Sri Lanka government MP for Puttalam district Arundika Fernando stated to local newspaper The Divaina that he manhandled opposition MP Palitha Range Bandara because the latter criticized the President on ...
The wife of Sri Lanka's disappeared journalist Prageeth Ekneligoda, Sandhya Ekneligoda said after returning to the island from Geneva that she was insulted by the officials of Sri Lanka's delegation to US Human Rights Council.She said that after participating in a side event at UN Human Rights Council on March19th 4 p.m. in which she spoke about disappeared persons of ...
An article written by a daughter of a leftist who was killed by People's Liberation Front (JVP) during the 1987-89 struggle.It was the late eighties. Sri Lanka was heading towards more and moreturbulent times dragging along the disillusioned and frustrated generationswith her to a bottomless abyss. Widespread social inequality, risingunemployment, brutal state repression and sharpening ethnic divide provided anideal platform ...
Lankan expats condemn barring of Muslims from Jumma prayers(Arab News)Sri Lankan expatriates in the Kingdom yesterday condemned a protest at a mosque in the Sri Lankan city of Dambulla where worshippers were barred from performing their Jumma prayers.A group of Buddhist monks with the support of a large group of hooligans had staged a mass demonstration there.Syed Hamid, marketing executive ...
Thousands of pro government Sri Lankans rallied today in demonstrations to protest the international conspiracies against Sri Lanka and to express solidarity with the government burning effigies of Barack Obama and UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon. Sri Lanka's ruling Sri Lanka Freedom Party general secretary and Minister of Health Maithripala Sirisena led the demonstration in Polonnaruwa. He said that ...
Colombo has a political school which is called Colombo College of Politics.The mastermind of this establishment is Shiral Lakthilaka, lawyer by profession and Westerm Provincial Councilor.His office is there in Colombo College of Politics and it is quite like UNP Sajith Premadasa faction headquarters.Shiral Lakthilaka is not only the de facto principal of Colombo College of Politics, he is also ...
Sri Lanka government has decided to relax the restrictions imposed on the imports of used motor vehicles.The President directed the officials to relax the restrictions following a discussion with the vehicle importers. The discussion was held in the Temple Trees yesterday.Accordingly, the restriction for used commercial vehicles has been relaxed from 3 1/2 years to four years. That means that ...
Three persons died yesterday evening in Sri Lanka's Southern Province due to lightening, police sources say.The dead persons were two women who were plucking tea and a farmer ploughing the paddy field, police say.The deaths occurred in inland Akuressa area in Mathara district.Sri Lanka Meteorological Department said that so far 15 persons have been killed in Sri Lanka due to ...
Sri Lanka Minister of Foreign Affairs Mangala Samaraweera said today that Mahinda Rajapaksha is the island's first trillionaire.Addressing press briefing held in Colombo today, the Minister stated that foreign intelligence services have informed that the assets of Rajapaksha family worth US $ 18 billion.The Minister further said that investigations are underway now with the assistance of four countries to trace ...
Sri Lanka government is really in trouble with the latest allegation of the UN that the military has used cluster bombs in the war against Tamil rebels.The UN revelation came to light amid allegations against Sri Lanka over serious violation of human rights and committing war crimes.The report has received wide international coverage. Visit this Google page to see.Two kids ...
The Association of Lawyers of Magistrate Courts of Colombo launched a protest today before the main court in Colombo today demanding immediate arrest of the culprits of the attack against a lawyer who appeared for the double murder of two Buddhist monks in a temple in Kotte.Hundreds of lawyers boycotted court proceedings today and launched a protest campaign before Hulftsdorp ...
Sri Lanka’s Packaging Industry exhibition, named as ‘LANKAPACK 2012’ is scheduled to be held from 25th to 28th of May. Nearly 150 exhibitors are expected to take part in it.40 international exhibitors, representing companies from countries including India, China, Malaysia and Taiwan will also take part in the exhibition.Sri Lanka Institute of Packaging organizes the event that is held in ...
The Minister kissing an Iran officialSri Lanka Minister of Power and Energy Champika Ranawaka said to a local Sinhala language radio, Hiru FM, that the service extension granted to UNHRC Chairman Navanithan Pillai was the next move of the actions by US, European Union and India pertaining to Sri Lanka.The Minister stated that the US has already pointed that the ...
