Sri Lankans not affected by earthquake in Iran, Iraq

Kachchatheevu is ours says Douglas

Tamil Nadu has no right to demand Kachchatheevu, for it belongs to Sri Lanka as per an earlier agreement, Sri Lanka?s Traditional Industries and Small Enterprises Development Minister Douglas Devananda has said. His statement comes in response to Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa?s recent demand that the Centre retrieve a small island ceded to Sri Lanka in 1974. Last week, the Tamil Nadu Assembly passeda resolution in this regard, in the wake of ?continued violent attacks, torture and arres

10 May, 2013

President off to Uganda

President Mahinda Rajapaksa will travel to Uganda tomorrow to participate in the Commonwealth Local Government conference, New Vision website reported. Vellupillai Kanathan consul general for Sri Lanka in Uganda said the head of state would spend four days in Uganda. ?He will be a key note speaker at the conference. The next commonwealth will be hosted by Sri Lanka in two years and so he will the next chair for it,? Kanathan said. He said there were a number of Sri Lanka investors in Uganda and

10 May, 2013

Welgama wants to attract women

Transport Minister Kumara Welgama says he has decided to do away with his traditional sarong in Parliament and wear trousers to attract female parliamentarians. Speaking at a public event, Welgama said that when he walks into parliament wearing the sarong no one looks at him. He says there are pretty MPs in parliament in the likes of MP Rosy Senanayake and Upeksha Swarnamali, whose eyes he would like to attract. As a result he says he had decided to wear trousers in parliament and now some femal

10 May, 2013