| 25 Lankans still homeless following Italy quake |
[Friday, 25 May 2012, 03:16 PM] [ ] |
 Twenty five Sri Lankan nationals are still homeless following the earthquake in Italy. [More] |
| Man attempts to smuggle 18 gold biscuits in rectum |
| [Friday, 25 May 2012, 12:42 PM] |
 A man who attempted to smuggle 18 gold biscuits worth over Rs. 15 million concealed in his rectum has been arrested at the Katunayake International Airport. [More] |
| UK calls for reduced military in Wanni |
| [Friday, 25 May 2012, 10:41 AM] |
 Britain has urged the Sri Lankan government to reduce the military presence in the north, especially in Jaffna and the Wanni. [More] |
| Floods wreak havoc down roads in Colombo |
| [Friday, 25 May 2012, 10:34 AM] |
 Police say that several roads in Colombo including Town Hall, Horton Place, Thunmulla, Amarasekara MW, Devi Balika has been flooded due to the heavy rain experienced in several parts of the country this morning. [More] |
| Fonseka has not requested for security: Govt. |
| [Friday, 25 May 2012, 10:30 AM] |
 Democratic National Alliance (DNA) leader Sarath Fonseka has so far not requested the government for protection, Chief Government Whip and Minister Dinesh Gunawardena said. [More] |
| Sri Lanka is a constitutional, multiparty republic. President Mahinda Rajapaksa |
| [Friday, 25 May 2012, 05:03 AM] |
 Sri Lanka is a constitutional, multiparty republic. President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who was reelected to a second six-year term in January 2010, and the parliament, which was elected in April 2010, share constitutional power. [More] |
| India’s Marxist Communist Party calls for withdrawal of Sri Lanka military |
| [Friday, 25 May 2012, 04:46 AM] [] |
 The Marxist Communist Party of India (CPI-M) in a press release on Wednesday called for immediate withdrawal of the Sri Lanka military stationed in Tamil areas of the island. [More] |
| Tamils will never accept Sri Lanka constitution: Sivajilingam |
[Friday, 25 May 2012, 04:41 AM] [ ] |
 Eezham Tamils were not a party and will never accept the one-sided constitutions Sri Lanka enacted either in 1972 or in 1978, said former TNA parliamentarian MK Sivajilingam speaking in Jaffna on the 40th anniversary of the 1972 republican constitution of Sri Lanka on Tuesday. [More] |
| 1972 constitution reminds Tamils not to backtrack idea of nationhood |
| [Friday, 25 May 2012, 04:36 AM] [] |
 The 1972 republican constitution of Sri Lanka, which for the first time constitutionalised a unitary Sinhala-Buddhist state, was enacted without the participation or mandate of Eezham Tamils. [More] |
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| BBS criticised Muslims on wearing Niqab and Burka |
| [ Monday, 17 June 2013, 07:55.14 AM ] |
 The Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) has once again criticised Muslims who wear the Niqab and Burka in Sri Lanka saying that it should not be allowed. [More] |
| Lanka continues ban od Al-Qaeda and Taliban |
| [ Monday, 17 June 2013, 07:30.45 AM ] |
 The Government will ratify a United Nations obligation in Parliament next week to ban anyone in Sri Lanka aiding and abetting internationally proscribed terrorist organizations that include Al-Qaeda or the Taliban. [More] |
| Dr.Shivashankar released |
| [ Monday, 17 June 2013, 05:52.13 AM ] |
 Dr.Shivashankar arrested while at the Kokawil military base was released this morning. [More] |
| 30 Lankans in global database of secret accounts in tax havens |
| [ Monday, 17 June 2013, 05:48.30 AM ] |
 Nearly 30 Sri Lankan individuals and two companies have been named in a first of its kind worldwide publication of those having secret accounts in offshore jurisdictions. [More] |
| Ranil comments on important of 13th amendment |
| [ Sunday, 16 June 2013, 06:53.02 AM ] |
 While the debate continues on the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe said that the 17th Amendment to the Constitution must be implemented before having elections for the Northern Province. [More] |
| Never allow to separate this country: President |
| [ Sunday, 16 June 2013, 06:51.51 AM ] |
 President Mahinda Rajapaksa announced we have decided to implement changes in the 13th amendment to stop dividing this motherland. [More] |
| Government decided to implement LLRC recommendations |
| [ Sunday, 16 June 2013, 06:32.11 AM ] |
 Prior to Navi Pillay’s visit SriLankan government decided to implement 53 recommendations proposed in the LLRC report. [More] |
| Officers seize gold Asian jewellery worth more than 500,000 in London |
| [ Sunday, 16 June 2013, 05:02.41 AM ] [] |
 Detectives investigating a series of thefts are trying to trace the owners of a haul of gold jewellery worth more than 500,000. [More] |
| UN has a second chance to right wrongs on Sri Lanka |
| [ Friday, 16 November 2012, 07:18.53 AM ] |
 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. [More] |
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