Cabraal appears before FCID to make a statement

Dayan makes controversial exit speech

Outgoing Sri Lankan Ambassador to France Dayan Jayatillake, in a farewell speech to the Sri Lankan community in France, has said it was not his job and would go against the spirit of what he was doing, to identify himself with or serve one political party. ?I was however faced with certain situations or combination of factors which you are well aware of. Now I will not go into that but I will just say that what I have stood for here has been the following. And it is by standing for these princi

09 Dec, 2012

Another 17 arrested in Jaffna

Another 17 people were arrested in Jaffna by the Terrorist Investigations Division (TID), reports from Jaffna said today. Reports said that 15 people were arrested in Achuveli yesterday and another two people were arrested in Kopai today. All those arrested were initially taken to the respective police stations in their areas and then to Vavuniya for investigations. Last week the TID arrested several others under the anti terrorism laws just days after university students in Jaffna clashed wi

09 Dec, 2012

Attempts to save Sri Lankan elephants failed: Study

An attempt to save the lives of both elephants and people by moving the pachyderms away from humans has failed in Sri Lanka, a new study finds. Instead of the relocated elephants living peacefully in their new homes, they wandered, researchers found. Relocated elephants died more often than problem elephants left in their original range. The relocated elephants also killed more people than elephants that stayed put. “We were stunned that translocation neither solves the conflict nor saves elep

10 Dec, 2012