(Telegraph.lk): Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has invited the Sankaracharya of Kanchi, Sri Jayendra Saraswathi, to visit Lanka to advice the government on Hindu religious affairs and the training of Hindu priests. The invitation […]
Sri Lanka cricket star Kumar Sangakkara, currently in England turning out for the English county Surrey, had to taste the bitter side of the United Kingdom Immigration Department in London. Sangakkara, who was in London […]
President Maithripala Sirisena termed as ‘splendid’ the victory at the UK elections by British Prime Minister David Cameron. Sirisena also said that Sri Lanka looks forward to deeper ties and cooperation with Britain following Cameron’s […]
Sri Lanka’s smaller political parties representing minority communities have expressed opposition to the proposed 20th amendment to the constitution which incorporates reforms to the electoral system. “We are opposed to the move of bringing electoral […]
The United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances has confirmed the dates of its visit to Sri Lanka this year. The Working Group, which is currently meeting to review almost 400 cases of […]
SFEASL-Spokesman Colonel Channa Weeratunga by Randima Attygalle The task force appointed by the Prime Minister, Ranil Wickremesinghe in early January this year to work towards the lifting of the European Union’s (EU) ban on the […]
Families of those reported missing visited the Welikada and Boosa prisons last week with the hope of obtaining answers to their questions, but it was to no avail. Following a request made by the families […]
WikiLeaks: “Mr. Ten Percent” Basil Is Corrupt $4.5-Million Dollar Home for Basil in California Many voters saw the Rajapaksa family as corrupt (85 percent) and the president himself as corrupt (80 percent) Basil charging 10% […]
Attempts made by a substantial section of SLFP parliamentarians to make former president Mahinda Rajapaksa the prime ministerial candidate of the party at the forthcoming parliamentary elections under the leadership of President Sirisena could be […]
The meeting between the defeated president and the winning president was given as much hype as was possible for a team that has very little access to media institutions. Yet what the meeting has achieved […]
The military came under mention a second time when Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe addressed former and current senior military personnel on the future orientation of the country’s armed forces and urged them to be […]
