| Party leader Hakeem will make final decision |
| [Wednesday, 12 September 2012, 04:38 PM] |
 Leader of the SriLanka Muslim Congress Rauff Hakeem would make final decision on the governance of the eastern province. [More] |
| Search operation arrest youth cause disturbances for young girl |
| [Wednesday, 12 September 2012, 04:06 PM] |
 Police hold investigations against an individual disturb young girl serving at a hotel in Kollpetty. [More] |
| Jaffna human rights council to investigate about misplace persons |
| [Wednesday, 12 September 2012, 04:04 PM] |
 Coordinator of the Jaffna Human Rights Council T.Kanagaraj announced commission schedule to hold investigations on 17th of September misplaced persons in the country. [More] |
| Tamil Nadu government adopts tough stand against Sri Lankan minister |
| [Wednesday, 12 September 2012, 04:00 PM] |
 Adopting a tough stand against Douglas Devananda, a Sri Lankans minister facing a murder case in Chennai since 1986, the Tamil Nadu government has said he must come to court and face trial. [More] |
| SLMC should not support government for ministry post: Peoples Movement for Good Governance |
| [Wednesday, 12 September 2012, 01:49 PM] |
 By releasing a special statement People Movement for Good Governance announced in order to receive the ministry posts and other benefits SriLanka Muslim Congress should not support the government to own the governance of the eastern provincial council. [More] |
| Mahinda government hopes to establish national governance in the east |
| [Wednesday, 12 September 2012, 12:49 PM] |
 Political parties contest in the eastern provincial council fails to obtain majority votes in the province. In such situation Lankan government hopes to establish national government in the eastern province, Colombo based political sources said. [More] |
| Protest and prayers service hold Vavuniya to release misplaced, abducted and political prisoners of the country |
[Wednesday, 12 September 2012, 12:12 PM] [ ] |
 People in the North dashed 1008 coconuts in front of Kurumanadu Khali Kovil in the hope of the release of Tamil political prisoners and their loved once abducted and misplaced in the country. This special pooja organised by the Tamil National Alliance. [More] |
| Colombo additional district judge interdicted |
| [Wednesday, 12 September 2012, 11:03 AM] |
 The Colombo Additional District Court Judge Aravinda Perera has been interdicted with effect from today (12), Secretary of the Judicial Service Commission. [More] |
| Kapilavastu Relics leave Lanka's shores today |
| [Wednesday, 12 September 2012, 11:01 AM] |
 The sacred Kapilavastu Relics brought to Sri Lanka from India will be taken back to India ceremonially today after the successful conclusion of the exposition at ten venues in the country. [More] |
| KP to visit Mullaitivu tomorrow |
| [Wednesday, 12 September 2012, 11:00 AM] |
 Kumaran Pathamanatha alias KP schedule to visit Katharuban Arivuchcholai, Mullaitivu on Thursday. [More] |
| Prisoner attack prison official in Batticaloa prison |
| [Wednesday, 12 September 2012, 10:57 AM] |
 Two prison officers were severely injured from attack carried out by a prisoner when they tried to stop clash between two prisoners at the Batticaloa prison compound this morning and rushed to the hospital. [More] |
| Weapons of LTTE recovered in Mullaitivu: Navy spokesman |
| [Wednesday, 12 September 2012, 10:56 AM] [] |
 Navy recovered stock of weapons hidden by the LTTE in Mullaitivu district on Tuesday. [More] |
| Douglas Devananda files petition to recall the non-bailable warrant |
| [Wednesday, 12 September 2012, 06:57 AM] |
| Sri Lankan Minister Douglas Devananda has filed a petition in a Sessions Court here praying that his personal appearance be dispensed with for proceedings related to recalling of the non-bailable warrant (NBW) issued against him in a criminal case. [More] |
| ISI eavesdropping on Indian Navy in Jaffna rattles RAW |
| [Wednesday, 12 September 2012, 06:54 AM] |
 Setting up of a listening post by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in Jaffna of northern Sri Lanka has rattled the security establishment with agencies suspecting that the notorious spy agency might snoop on the communication lines of the Indian Navy, The Pioneer reports. [More] |
| SLMC demand the government |
| [Wednesday, 12 September 2012, 03:22 AM] |
 SriLanka Muslim Congress made some demands towards government on supporting to hold join governance in the eastern provincial council. [More] |
| Government voting power reduced: Ranil |
| [Wednesday, 12 September 2012, 03:17 AM] |
 Opposition leader Ranil Wickramasinghe blamed power of the votes of Lankan government reduced in the country. [More] |
| South Africa calls for durable and lasting peace in Sri Lanka |
| [Wednesday, 12 September 2012, 03:04 AM] |
 In August 2012, the Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Mr Ebrahim Ebrahim, accompanied by a civil society delegation, visited Sri Lanka to meet with the leaders of the Sri Lankan government, the Tamil community, NGOs and other stakeholders. [More] |
| UN delegates visits SriLanka are not judges: G.L.Peries |
| [Wednesday, 12 September 2012, 02:47 AM] |
 A delegation from the United Nations Human Rights Council will arrive in Sri Lanka on Friday, Minister of External Affairs Prof. G.L Peiris has said. [More] |
| Leader abduct Lankan Tamils to Australia nabbed |
| [Wednesday, 12 September 2012, 02:46 AM] |
 TONY, who was arrested on Sept 9, 2009, had been smuggling Sri Lankans to Christmas Island, Australia, and had amassed a fortune of more than RM130 million,New Straits Times reports. [More] |
| Lankan president would meet Pranab Mukarjee and Manmohan Singh: G.L.Peries |
| [Wednesday, 12 September 2012, 02:44 AM] |
 The Minister of External Affairs G.L.Peries announced President Mahinda Rajapaksa schedule to visit Indian would meet Indian president Pranab Mukarjee and the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. [More] |
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. [
Peoples Front has pasted posters in Jaffna Peninsula on urging area residents to celebrate the war victory ceremony. [
The Ministry of Health re-appoints Mrs.Bawani Pasubathi raja has director of the Jaffna Teaching hospital. [
“Mann expressed concern that government forces had given excessive freedom to the LTTE-breakaway “Karuna group,” which was using this freedom destructively. [
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. [