| Donor interest in north waning |
| [Saturday, 07 July 2012, 05:28 PM] |
Donor assistance is waning in northern SriLanka, where the critical priorities of food, shelter, protection and nutrition are not being covered, and many displaced people still need outside assistance more than three years after a decades-long civil war ended. [More] |
| Suspects tried to abduct student arrested |
| [Saturday, 07 July 2012, 05:12 PM] |
A suspect has been arrested for kidnapping a student with the intention of demanding ransom. The 8-year-old child was kidnapped yesterday (07) near his school by an individual on a motorcycle. [More] |
| Military personals intervene in to day today activities: Jaffna people |
| [Saturday, 07 July 2012, 05:09 PM] |
People in the North blamed Military personals decide their day today activities in the Northern province. [More] |
| Tamil people would be benefited by Mahinda ?- Robert O Blake: Wikileaks reports |
| [Saturday, 07 July 2012, 04:52 PM] |
US ambassador to SriLanka Robert O Blake informed US government Tamil people in SriLanka would be benefited by the activities of President Mahinda Rajapksa, wikileaks website reports. [More] |
| Lankan government concern over sending back Lankan Navl personals from Tamil Nadu |
| [Saturday, 07 July 2012, 04:38 PM] |
Government Media Spokesman Minister Keheliya Rambukwella stated Lankan government concern over sending back Lankan Navl personals from Tamil Nadu in India. [More] |
| Let our people live in their own land: protest at Mannar |
[Saturday, 07 July 2012, 03:09 PM] [ ] |
Tamil National Alliance holds special protest against land grabbing and militarization in the Mannar district today. [More] |
| Chinese military delegates visits SriLanka |
[Saturday, 07 July 2012, 02:59 PM] [ ] |
A Chinese military delegation currently in SriLanka on a friendly tour called on to the commander of the Army Let.Gen.Jagath Jyasuriya at his office. [More] |
| UN money to LTTE? |
| [Saturday, 07 July 2012, 02:40 PM] |
A leaked UN email suggests that UN money went to LTTE. Colombo Telegraph exposed how United Nations funds were paid to three Sri Lankan companies which were physically not contactable. [More] |
| Another boat with 32 Lankans intercepted off Christmas Island |
| [Saturday, 07 July 2012, 08:44 AM] |
Another boatload of Sri Lankan asylum seekers, this time 31 men and one girl, have completed their long journey to Christmas Island. [More] |
| Sri Lankan President calls for setting up new police stations in response to rising crime |
| [Saturday, 07 July 2012, 07:26 AM] |
Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa in his capacity as the Minister of Finance and Planning, Defense, Ports and Aviation, and Highway participated in the parliamentary consultative meetings of the respective ministries at the Parliament yesterday. [More] |
| Son and daughter arrested 16 years after father’s murder |
| [Saturday, 07 July 2012, 07:23 AM] |
Two suspects have been arrested by police in connection to a murder which had occurred nearly sixteen years ago in the Hathamunagala Colony area in Mahawela. [More] |
| Sri Lankan airmen should not be trained anywhere in India - Jayalalithaa |
| [Saturday, 07 July 2012, 07:19 AM] |
Under huge pressure from political parties in Tamil Nadu, the Indian government has decided to end the training of Sri Lankan personnel at the Tambaram Air force Station near Chennai. The nine Sri Lankans have been moved to the Yalahanka base in Bangalore. [More] |
| Govt. still hopes TNA will take part in PSC |
| [Saturday, 07 July 2012, 07:14 AM] |
The government is confident that the Tamil National Alliance (TNA), in spite of its claim last week in a statement to India that it did not see any point in getting involved in ‘what looks like an infructuous negotiating process’, will eventually participate in the Parliamentary Select Committee on the National Question (PSCNQ). [More] |