PM briefs Chief Prelates on political situation in the country

LTTE remains on U.S terror list

The LTTE will remain listed as a foreign terrorist organization, according to the annual U.S State Department country report on terrorism for 2011 released yesterday. The report said that although the LTTE was militarily defeated in 2009 its financial network of support continued to operate throughout 2011. The Government of Sri Lanka remained concerned that the LTTE’s international network of financial support still functions; most counterterrorism activities undertaken by the government targ

01 Aug, 2012

Duminda Silva in Sri Lanka?

UPFA parliamentarian Duminda Silva has reportedly returned to Sri Lanka, police intelligence sources told the Colombo Gazette today. However these reports could not be independently verified from the government or any member of Silva?s family. Silva was receiving treatment in Singapore since last year after sustaining serious head injuries in the Mulleriyawa shooting incident. Presidential Advisor Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra was killed in the shooting incident in October last year and Silv

02 Aug, 2012

Returnees not harassed

The government has insisted that failed asylum seekers deported from Britain are not harassed when they arrive in Sri Lanka. External affairs Minister Professor G.L. Peiris said the government had co-operated with the United Kingdom Border Agency in facilitating the return of unsuccessful asylum seekers. He stressed that none of these returnees had faced any harassment or intimidation, contrary to malicious propaganda carried out by some diaspora groups, the External Affairs Ministry said toda

01 Aug, 2012