Vanni district displaced voters get relief

JVP suspicious about North polls

The opposition Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) is?suspicious?about the motives behind government moves to hold elections in the Northern Province. JVP MP Anura Kumara Dissanayake said the election is a sinister attempt by the government to grab full control over the north like it has already done in the South. He said holding Northern Provincial Council elections is not the solution for the Tamil issue and instead their rights should be secured through the constitution. Addressing the ?media tod

15 May, 2013

Men with poles seen at demonstration

Men with poles were seen standing in Fort as the demonstration launched by the opposition drew close to the area this evening. However the men dispersed and the protest against the government eventually ended peacefully. The government and their?supporters also staged a demonstration at Fort in support of President Mahinda Rajapaksa while the opposition began its protest walk from Borella. Hundreds of people took part in both demonstrations resulting in a massive traffic?congestion at Borella an

15 May, 2013

Swiss probe reveals Lankan links

Investigations carried out by Switzerland last year into money laundering and terror funding had revealed that money had also come from Sri Lanka to fund terrorism. They were among more than 1,500 suspected money-laundering cases that Swiss authorities disrupted last year, including 15 linked to terrorist financing, officials said Tuesday, according to the Associated Press. One of the terrorist-financing cases in 2012 involved 7.45 million francs ($7.8 million) and accounted for nearly all of th

14 May, 2013