Minister defends Norochcholai coal power plant

MR warns of attempt to create an Arab spring in Sri Lanka

President Mahinda Rajapaksa has warned of attempts to create an??Arab Spring? in Sri Lanka to topple the government. The Arab Spring is a revolutionary wave of demonstrations, protests, and wars which occurring in the Arab world that began on 18 December 2010 which led to the leaders of Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen being removed from power. In an interview with India’s The Hindu newspaper, the President said?denied that the Army killed LTTE chief Vellupillai Prabakaran?s 12-year-old son Balac

02 Mar, 2013

Ranil says Maithripala should go to Geneva

Opposition UNP leader Ranil Wickramasinghe says Minister Maithripala Sirisena should go to Geneva and complain that his human rights is being violated by the government. Speaking at an event in Kandy today Wickramasinghe said that Sirisena had alleged that a private newspaper was attempting to destroy his life. He quoted the Minister as saying that the private newspaper is more pro-government than the State owned Lake House newspapers and is yet trying to harm him. Wickramasinghe says that by sa

01 Mar, 2013

US resolution to build on 2012 resolution

The new resolution to be submitted by the United States at the ongoing UN Human Rights Council session in Geneva will build on the 2012 resolution, the US State Department has said. Asked on Sri Lanka for a second day in succession at the US State Department press briefing, Patrick Ventrell, Acting Deputy Spokesperson of the US State Department said that the resolution will ask the Government of Sri Lanka to follow through on its own commitments to its people. ?Well, we do intend to, as I mentio

02 Mar, 2013