Bid for Xmas tree record despite Church snub
Cricket legend Arjuna Ranatunga announced Monday he was reviving his bid to build a record-breaking 100-metre tall Christmas tree in Sri Lanka's capital despite opposition...
Stop attacks on fishermen, Panneerselvam tells Modi
Expressing concern over the recent attacks on fishermen from Jegathapattinam in Pudukottai district by the Sri Lankan Navy, Chief Minister O Panneerselvam on Sunday wrote...
CM says Tamils oppose only illegal erection of Buddha statues
The Chief Minister of Sri Lanka’s Tamil-majority Northern Province, C.V.Wigneswaran, has issued a statement refuting the Sri Lankan Justice Minister Wijedasa Rajapakshe’s allegation that he...
We did not follow the Sri Lanka process in many respects.
Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, who will be handed this year’s Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to achieve a peace agreement with the FARC...
An act of piracy?
Sri Lankan naval troops fired warning shots to break up a protest by striking dock workers who have held up a Japanese vessel for four...
The 2016 fiscal targets are within reach
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said Sri Lanka’s performance under its Extended Fund Facility (EFF) “broadly satisfactory” and praised the Government for exceeding targets in...
What Happened at Sri Lanka’s Maritime Security Conference This Year?
The Galle Dialogue is an annual international maritime conference jointly hosted by the Sri Lankan Ministry of Defense and Navy. Last month, the seventh iteration...
My people need me
Mahinda Rajapaksa sits at a desk in his party office beneath a photo of himself. He’s not especially tall but solid in the chest and...
A beachfront indulgence
By Henry Wismayer: ...
Scot flies 5000 miles for case to be adjourned
A Scot travelled 5000 miles to a Sri Lankan court to face claims he attacked a playboy – only for the case to be adjourned....
19 leaders names cleared
Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena on Thursday rescinded a colonial-era British order naming 19 nationals as "traitors" for leading a rebellion nearly 200 years ago,...
Chinese firm to develop Southern Port
Sri Lanka will take part in a joint venture with China Merchants Port Holdings Company Limited to develop a port in its south, where China...
U.N. wants ongoing torture, war crimes probed
The United Nations Committee against Torture called on Sri Lanka on 7 December to investigate "routine torture" of detainees by security forces and rebuked its...
Sri Lanka postpones Katchatheevu consecration
The Sri Lankan Government has postponed the consecration of the Katchatheevu church, slated for Wednesday, as mark of respect to the late Chief Minister Jayalalithaa....
The elites of today have stripped themselves of that yester-year decency
By Vishwamithra1984: “The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you...