Suspect arrested with heroin valued at Rs.120mn

Prime Minister shows green light for port city

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe today said the country plans to have a ?unique financial and business district? in Colombo when the sea reclamation project by a Chinese firm is resumed. ?Hopefully if the Port City projects get underway, I think there will be some sort of landfill there that could have the makings of a special financial and business district which will be a unique one in South Asia,? Wickremesinghe told a gathering celebrating 30-years of the formal establishment of the Colo

02 Dec, 2015

Lanka urges unity to combat terrorism

Sri Lanka has?urged the world community to stand firm and united in combating terrorism, the Foreign Ministry said today. This call was made when Sri Lanka?s Ambassador to the Netherlands and Permanent Representative to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), Adam M.J. Sadiq addressed the 20th Session of the Conference of the States Parties to the Chemical Weapons Convention in the Hague. Speaking on behalf of the Government of Sri Lanka during the General Debate of th

02 Dec, 2015

JVP ready to debate 1988-89 period

The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) says it is prepared to debate incidents which took place during the 1988-89 period. JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake told Parliament today that while the JVP has been accused of engaging in violence during that period the party has not been accused of such atrocities now. The 1987?89 insurrection (also known as the 1989 Revolt) saw the JVP engaging in violence to protest against the then Government. Dissanayake said that the JVP is prepared to debate in

02 Dec, 2015