Six students drown in seas off Mandaitivu island

MR’s visit to China to boost ties

President Mahinda Rajapaksa would visit China later this month on the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping, the Press Trust of India?quoted?the Chinese Foreign Ministry as saying. This will be Rajapaksa’s first visit after the new leadership took power in China. His visit from May 27-30 is expected to further boost the emerging close ties between the two countries helped by billions of dollars of aid and assistance provided by Beijing to Colombo to develop its infrastructure. China has ass

20 May, 2013

Father kills son, commits suicide

A man threw his son into a well and later?committed?suicide in Tissamaharama this evening, the police said. The police said that the 50 year old man first threw his 5 year old son in the well and then jumped in. The incident took place in Yodawewa,?Tissamaharama and both bodies have been recovered. The police said that an illicit affair his wife was having with another man had led to the incident. Police investigations are underway. (Colombo Gazette)

20 May, 2013

LTTE operative arrested in Mumbai

The police in Mumbai have arrested a 35-year-old Sri Lankan, who was an operative of the LTTE, when he was attempting to catch a flight to Nairobi, DNA India reported. Interestingly, the accused, an electronics engineer, initially told cops that he entered India by air, but after sustained interrogation, revealed that he took a boat from Sri Lanka and got off at the coast of Tamil Nadu. He ran out of luck as the Sri Lankan government issued an Interpol notice against him, due to which he was nab

21 May, 2013