| Protest in front of Jaffna mosque |
[Friday, 20 July 2012, 04:43 PM] [ ] |
 Protest stage in front of the Jaffna mosque on supporting the protest stage against courts by the Muslims in Mannar district. [More] |
| Tamil woman murdered in Switzerland: Husband arrested |
| [Friday, 20 July 2012, 04:33 PM] |
 Tamil woman murdered at Switzerland and husband arrested over suspecuois. [More] |
| Gota ordered to transfer LTTE suspects towards Boosa prison |
| [Friday, 20 July 2012, 03:45 PM] |
 Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa informed the Ministry of prison reforms to take legal action against these suspects or send them towards rehabilitation programme once they transferred to the Boosa prison. [More] |
| Nimala Ruban funeral service to take place at Vavuniya |
| [Friday, 20 July 2012, 02:50 PM] |
 SriLankan Supreme Court today granted permission to hold funeral service of Nimala Ruban reported at while at Mahara prison custody at Vavuniya. [More] |
| Body of elderly man recovered in Jaffna sea |
| [Friday, 20 July 2012, 02:39 PM] |
 Police recovered body of 53 year old elderly man from Mathagal sea show this morning. [More] |
| Anura Priyadharshana Yapa to be the next prime minister? |
| [Friday, 20 July 2012, 01:41 PM] |
 Currently President Mahinda Rajapaksa decided to appoint senior members of the SriLanka Freedom Party minister Anura Priyadharshana Yapa has the next prime minister of the country on next cabinet change, Temple tress sources said. [More] |
| Protest stage against Mannar bishop at Eravur |
| [Friday, 20 July 2012, 01:15 PM] [] |
 Protest stage against Mannar bishop at Eravur area in Batticaloa district today. Recently Bishop of the Mannar district condemns the resettlement activities of Muslim people in the Mannar area. [More] |
| Threats and intimidation on eastern provincial council have already started |
| [Friday, 20 July 2012, 01:13 PM] |
 Tamil National Alliance parliamentarian M.A.Sumanthiran said threats and intimidation on eastern provincial council have already started in the country. [More] |
| Members of Killinochchie Bar Association stage protests against Mannar court attack |
| [Friday, 20 July 2012, 12:39 PM] [] |
 A group of unidentified persons supported by the Minister Rizad Bathudeen had attack the Mannar court premises and also made threats towards judge on 18th of July this month. [More] |
| Muslim leaders blame LTTE on Mannar issue |
| [Friday, 20 July 2012, 12:34 PM] |
 Head of the all island Jammathulla Ulama organization Asshaiq Rizvi Mupthi urge the interference of his eminence cardinal Malcom Ranjith to solve the tense situation currently arose in the Mannar district. [More] |
| Australian navy torches another Lankan asylum boat |
| [Friday, 20 July 2012, 09:11 AM] |
 IT is a routine process performed more and more often by the Royal Australian Navy - empty asylum seeker boats being towed back out to sea and set alight. [More] |
| Container - Lorry collision at Karaitheevu |
| [Friday, 20 July 2012, 08:26 AM] [] |
 Container collided with a small lorry transported jack fruits at Karatheevu main junction at 8.00 am this morning. [More] |
| Expect rupee to strengthen in coming months: Cabraal |
| [Friday, 20 July 2012, 08:18 AM] |
 The Sri Lankan rupee is likely to strengthen toward the end of the year as import volumes cool after months of depreciation, Sri Lanka’s central bank governor said. [More] |
| Lanka import 120 trains from China |
| [Friday, 20 July 2012, 08:06 AM] |
 A total of 120 trains were shipped from the port city of Qingdao in East China’s Shandong province to Sri Lanka on Thursday. [More] |
| Court activities halted: Cases postponed |
| [Friday, 20 July 2012, 07:47 AM] |
 Work at all courts in the country has come to a standstill due to a boycott by Judges and Lawyers in protest against the attack on Mannar Courts from today(Friday) [More] |
| LTTE tactics continued to trouble naval forces all over the world: Lankan Forces |
| [Friday, 20 July 2012, 06:35 AM] |
 The Sri Lankan military yesterday said that LTTE tactics continued to trouble naval forces all over the world, though the group’s naval wing, the Sea Tigers, no longer posed a threat. [More] |
| Editor of the Walampuri news papers call back to fourth floor |
| [Friday, 20 July 2012, 06:33 AM] |
 At present Lankan government has blocked news websites and other media unites which reports news in SriLanka. [More] |
| Officials of the Colombo stock market to meet president |
| [Friday, 20 July 2012, 06:32 AM] |
 Representatives of the SriLankan stock market would hold special discussion with president Mahinda Rajapaksa today. [More] |
| No problems with SLMC: Maithripala |
| [Friday, 20 July 2012, 06:30 AM] |
 The Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) is still a constituent party of the UPFA, and it has not moved away from the UPFA coalition according to the SLFP General Secretary, Maithripala Sirisena, who was addressing a press conference at the Mahaveli Centre, yesterday. [More] |
| Former IGP’s wife sets up clothes shop at the Sri Lankan mission! |
| [Friday, 20 July 2012, 06:11 AM] |
 Former IGP and Sri Lanka’s ambassador to Brazil, Mahinda Balasuriya’s wife, Asha Balasuriya has set up a clothes shop at the Sri Lankan mission in Brazil, diplomatic sources said.Asha Balasuriya had maintained close links with well known racketeers when her husband was the IGP and she at the time was known among members of the police force as “senior IGP.” [More] |
| SL government do not concern over protest at Tamil Nadu |
| [Friday, 20 July 2012, 06:09 AM] |
 Sri Lanka today praised India for continuing with the proscription of the LTTE for another two years. [More] |
| Sri Lanka X News website director investigated by CID officials for 4th day |
| [Friday, 20 July 2012, 06:07 AM] |
 Director editorial of Sri Lanka X News and former director editorial of Sri Lanka Mirror, Ruwan Ferdinandis was summoned today (July 16) as well to the CID, for questioning. [More] |
| Over 3000 candidates for PC polls |
| [Friday, 20 July 2012, 06:05 AM] |
 The elections department says nominations were received from 91 recognized political parties and 88 independent groups to contest the elections in the North Central, Sabaragamuwa and Eastern Provinces in September. [More] |
| TNA members to hold discussions with Indian High Commissioner |
| [Friday, 20 July 2012, 06:04 AM] |
 Members of the Tamil National Alliance would hold special discussions with Indian High commissioner to SriLanka at Jaffna today, sources said. [More] |
| UNP elections to be held every 6 years |
| [Friday, 20 July 2012, 06:03 AM] |
 The UNP Working Committee decided today (July 19) to hold party leadership elections once every six years. [More] |
Parliamentarian Ravi Karunanayaka of Sri Lanka main opposition United National Party (UNP) said yesterday that the UNP turned down a request from a former terrorist to contest the Northern Provincial Council elections under the party. [
The entire world was asking Sri Lanka to give into the terrorists and avoid confrontation with them, but we chose to trust in the strength and courage of the country’s youth, President Mahinda Rajapaksa said. [
Trade unions, opposition parties and civil society organizations are gearing up to hold a massive protest on the 21st against the electricity tariff hike and the performance of the government. [
Deputy leader of the Vavuniya Municipal council M.M.Rathan stated by lighting lamps in the Wellamulliwaikal and Karaiyan Mulliwaikal people paid their respect to civilians killed in the final stage of war in year 2009. [
Students of Jaffna University commemorated death anniversary of people killed in the Mulliwaikal war. [
A woman attempted to commit suicide by jumping into a well with her 3 children in Vavuniya this morning. [
Man who has married mother and daughter of same family arrested. [
International community continuously hold debates on genocide attacks carried out by the racist government against Tamil’s in SriLanka. [
There is little doubt that in 2009 the government of Sri Lanka pulled off one of the nastiest episodes of mass killing since the Rwandan genocide – and got away with it. Tens of thousands of civilians were massacred, with barely a trickle of Syria-like imagery emerging from the battle zone, The Australian reported. [