| Northern provincial council election on end of February 2013 |
| [Sunday, 29 July 2012, 07:19 PM] |
 Lankan government decided to hold northern provincial council election in year 2013. [More] |
| I would not join the government: Dayasiri informed the Asgiriya chapter |
| [Sunday, 29 July 2012, 07:07 PM] |
 UNP parliamentarian Dayasiri Jayasekara has decided to join the government, sources said. [More] |
| 2 Lankan players unqualified in the Olympic Games |
| [Sunday, 29 July 2012, 07:01 PM] |
 Sri Lankan swimmer Heshan Unamboowe who participated in the Men's Swimming 100m backstroke heat failed to qualify to the next round after taking part in the event this afternoon at the Olympic in London. Unamboowe finished second in his heat. [More] |
| Sambanthan hopes to start second eelam war: Champika blamed |
| [Sunday, 29 July 2012, 06:59 PM] |
 The Minister of Power and Energy Patali Champika Ranawaka blamed TNA leader Sambanthan and the Tamil Nadu politicians once again hopes to make true of Eelam dream of LTTE organization. [More] |
| Ready to accompany Muslim party: Sambanthan |
| [Sunday, 29 July 2012, 06:46 PM] |
 Leader of the Tamil National Alliance R.Sambanthan announced they are ready to accompany Muslim Congress to carry out future ruling in the Eastern Provincial council. [More] |
| Navy rescues 28 stranded asylum seekers |
| [Sunday, 29 July 2012, 05:52 PM] |
 A vessel carrying 28 Sri Lankan illegal asylum seekers was rescued by the Sri Lankan Navy, while it was drifting some 300 nautical miles off the Galle seas, the Navy said. [More] |
| 17 crain's faced technical fault at Colombo port |
| [Sunday, 29 July 2012, 05:45 PM] |
 17 moving crain’s recently imported from the China has been facing technical fault at the Colombo port. [More] |
| 20 pounds worth of jewelries robbed at Nallur festival |
| [Sunday, 29 July 2012, 05:30 PM] |
 IGP of the Jaffna district Erick Perera stated 20 pounds worth of gold jewelries had been robbed during the festive season of Nallur Temple. [More] |
| Mystery surrounding on Vanni cluster bombs: Sunday Leader |
| [Sunday, 29 July 2012, 04:24 PM] |
 The mystery surrounding claims made by Allan Poston, the technical advisor for the UN Development Program’s(UNDP) mine action, that unexploded cluster bombs had been discovered in the North, deepened with the UNDP head office in New York saying it has not received an official report on the claims. [More] |
| Youths watched porn video clips arrested in Chunnagam |
| [Sunday, 29 July 2012, 04:21 PM] |
 Chunnagam police officials arrested four youths for watching porn video footages in their mobile phones. [More] |
| Doctors in Jaffna hospital call off strike Directress transferred |
| [Sunday, 29 July 2012, 03:55 PM] |
 The government doctors of hospitals in the Northern Province have decided to call off their scheduled strike action tomorrow (July 30). [More] |
| 20 Pakistani prisoners released |
| [Sunday, 29 July 2012, 03:52 PM] |
 The government has decided to hand over 20 Pakistani prisoners to the Pakistani government. The prisoners have been sentenced to life imprisonment or serving long jail terms for drug trafficking. [More] |
| Four nations supported Lanka loss their membership in UNHRC |
| [Sunday, 29 July 2012, 03:50 PM] |
 Four countries supported SriLanka at the UN Human Rights Council during the Geneva resolution lossed their membership in the UN Human Rights council. [More] |
| Gandhi statue damged at Ariyalai Jaffna |
[Sunday, 29 July 2012, 03:14 PM] [ ] |
 Group of unidentified person have damaged the statue of Mahatma Gandhi located at Ariyalai area in the Jaffna district. [More] |
| Fires erupt in forest reserves |
| [Sunday, 29 July 2012, 07:32 AM] |
 Fires have erupted in the Alugalla and Galkanda forest reserves in Badulla. [More] |
| Alleged sexual harassment in prison bus |
| [Sunday, 29 July 2012, 07:10 AM] |
 When the sittings at the Mount Lavinia courts were over, female prisoners were being taken away in a bus belonging to the Prisons Department last Thursday. [More] |
| Hillary appoints Sinhala Prof for UN top post |
| [Sunday, 29 July 2012, 07:07 AM] |
 United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has appointed Prof. Patrick Mendis as a commissioner to the US National Commission for United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). [More] |
| Navy rescue stranded asylum seekers |
| [Sunday, 29 July 2012, 07:01 AM] |
 Sri Lanka Navy today rescued 28 persons from an asylum seeker boat in trouble, which had attempted to flee to Australia. The vessel had suffered a mechanical failure around 300 nautical miles away from land, navy spokesman said. [More] |
| Sub-inspector accidentally shot, killed by Inspector |
| [Sunday, 29 July 2012, 03:49 AM] |
 A Sub-inspector attached to the Neluwa Police was killed last night when the firearm of an Inspector accidentally fired, police spokesman SP Ajith Rohana said. [More] |
| No military done so much for the people: Gota |
| [Sunday, 29 July 2012, 03:40 AM] |
 Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa said that no military in the world would ever do so much for the people in the aftermath of long-drawn war. [More] |
Russia decided to donate 8 helicopters to SriLanka. [
Tamil Genocide attack day commemorated at Queens Burg city in Toronto, Canada. [
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Thousands of Tamil national present at the Mulliwaikal mourning organized by the British Tamil Forum. [
Sixty-one Bangladeshis, who were in Sri Lankan detention camps for four months after being picked up by the navy in February, are scheduled to be returned to their home country from Colombo around Sunday noon. [
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. [
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. [