UNF submits proposal to Speaker to form National Government

All Tamils in North are not terrorists asserts Wigneswaran

Northern Province Chief Minister C V Wigneswaran asserted that all Tamils in the North are not terrorists. He says some people in the South have got the wrong impression about the people in the North. Wigneswaran said he discussed this matter with the Chief Prelates in Kandy when he visited them yesterday. He also invited the Chief Prelates to visit the North and see for themselves the issues faced by the people there. “Calling for a federal system is not a move to divide the country. We hav

10 Sep, 2017

Demonstration staged in Matale over Rohingya crisis

A demonstration was staged in Matale today over the Rohingya crisis and Myanmar’s Nobel Peace Prize winning Aung San Suu Kyi’s silence on the issue. The demonstrators held placards accusing?Aung San Suu Kyi of using her?Nobel Peace Prize as a “licence to kill” people. Almost 300,000 Rohingya have fled into neighbouring Bangladesh, according to the UN, since renewed violence between state security forces and the minority group began more than two weeks ago. The disruption started on August 25

10 Sep, 2017

Government blames MR for situation faced by Lalith and Anusha

The?Government blamed former President Mahinda Rajapaksa for the situation faced by former Secretary to the President Lalith Weeratunga and former Telecom Regulatory Commission Chairman Anusha Pelpita. Minister S.B. Dissanayake said that?Weeratunga and Pelpita are not thieves but had to follow the political decisions taken by Mahinda Rajapaksa. Weeratunga and Pelpita were last week found guilty in the ?sil redi? case and were sentenced to three years in jail by the Colombo High Court, and orde

10 Sep, 2017