| President Rajapaksa to meet Manmohan Singh at Iran |
| [Saturday, 18 August 2012, 05:44 PM] |
 President Mahinda Rajapaksa schedule to meet Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Sigh at Iran next week, presidential secretary sources said. [More] |
| Obama and Sonia do not own North and East: National Patriotic Movement |
| [Saturday, 18 August 2012, 04:42 PM] |
 Nationalist organistation announced Obama and Sonia do not own North and Eastern parts of the country and also warned we do not allow them to create separation among sovereignty of this country. [More] |
| Government not prepared to grant political solution for Tamil people: Sambanthan |
[Saturday, 18 August 2012, 04:19 PM] [ ] |
 Geneva resolution stress to grant political solution which includes more powers for Tamil people, however at present Lankan government not prepared to grant also solution for Tamil people of this country said R.Sambanthan leader of the Tamil National Alliance. [More] |
| Egg attack against Wickramabhu in Dambulla |
| [Saturday, 18 August 2012, 03:27 PM] |
 Egg threw towards leader of the Nawa Samajya Party Wickramabahu Karunaratne at united opposition meeting held at the Dambulle yesterday. [More] |
| SLMC hold discussion with election commissioner |
| [Saturday, 18 August 2012, 03:11 PM] |
 SriLanka Muslim Congress holds special discussion with election commissioner Mhahinda Deshapriya on present political situation in the Eastern province. [More] |
| Pillaiyan party supporters carry out continuous attacks against TNA |
| [Saturday, 18 August 2012, 02:44 PM] [] |
 Number of attacks carried out by the supports of Pillaiyan party against TNA increased in the Batticaloa district. [More] |
| Group collects ransom arrested |
| [Saturday, 18 August 2012, 02:31 PM] |
 Police arrested a group which abduct people and collect ransom from the family members of the victims. [More] |
| CID arrest deported Tamil youth |
| [Saturday, 18 August 2012, 02:26 PM] |
 Officers of the Crime Investigation Department arrested a Tamil youth deported from Netherland on 15.08.2012 at Katunayake airport today. [More] |
| Forest fire at Manalkadu area in Jaffna |
| [Saturday, 18 August 2012, 02:22 PM] [] |
 Forest fire erupted at Pine tree cultivation in the Manalkadu area in Wadamrachchie Jaffna, Disaster Management Center announced. [More] |
| Christian pastor attacked in Matara |
| [Saturday, 18 August 2012, 02:14 PM] |
 Attack has been carried out against Christian pastor at Matara area, sources said. [More] |
| 3 dead bodies from same family found at Wellawatte |
| [Saturday, 18 August 2012, 01:53 PM] |
 Police found three bodies beleived to be members of the same family- father, mother and daughter - were found in an apartment complex in Ramakrishna Terrace, Wellawatte this afternoon. [More] |
| Chinese engineers in Sri Lanka to repair Norochcholai power plant |
| [Saturday, 18 August 2012, 06:31 AM] |
 A group of seven engineers from China have arrived in Sri Lanka to repair the malfunctioning Lakvijaya Coal Power Plant in Norochcholai. [More] |
| Indian arrested for smuggling ‘Kerala Ganja’ to Sri Lanka |
| [Saturday, 18 August 2012, 06:25 AM] |
 An Indian national operating a large scale ‘Kerala Ganja’ racket has been arrested by the Police Narcotics Bureau. Police also managed to seize over 41 kilograms of Kerala Ganja in total, which had been brought into the country by the suspect in question. [More] |
| Sri Lankan asylum seekers face deportation |
| [Saturday, 18 August 2012, 06:21 AM] |
| In a significant development, the Kerala police are preparing to deport to Colombo 12 Sri Lankan Tamils recently held at Kollam while trying to illegally sail to Australia for asylum. The remaining members of the 151-strong group, which included 19 women and 22 children, have been already sent back to their refugee camps in Tamil Nadu. [More] |
| Regulator captured by the mafia: Harsha |
| [Saturday, 18 August 2012, 06:09 AM] |
 Commenting on the resignation of SEC Chairman Thilak Karunarathne, UNP MP Dr. Harsha De Silva said the ‘regulator has been captured by the mafia. [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. [