Hundreds turn up for demo

Fonterra to fight injunction

New Zealand’s Fonterra, the world’s top dairy exporter, said on Monday an injunction banning the sale of its products in Sri Lanka because of alleged contamination was incorrect and unjustified and it will fight the ban, a Reuters news report said. On Friday, a Sri Lankan court banned the sale and?advertising?of all Fonterra Co-operative Group Ltd milk products for two weeks. A trade union had sought the court ban because Fonterra products suspected of being contaminated with the agricultural ch

19 Aug, 2013

Objective report sought from Pillay

The government hopes the?UN Human Rights chief Navi Pillay will submit a?balanced and objective report on Sri Lanka to the UN Human Rights Council’s next session in September. Pillay will visit Sri Lanka later this month to take stock of the country’s progress on reconciliation with the Tamil minority since the end of the island’s ethnic conflict. Sri Lanka is looking forward to Pillay’s visit, Human Rights Envoy and Plantation Minister, Mahinda Samarasinghe told the Press Trust of India. Samara

18 Aug, 2013

UNP wants elections says Ranil (Video)

The leader of the opposition United National Party (UNP), Ranil Wickremesinghe, speaking to reporters in Chennai today, said that his party wants national elections next year. He said that the UNP is disturbed by some of the incidents which took place in the country recently which affected not only the Tamils and Muslims but the Sinhalese as well. Wickremesinghe said that the UNP and opposition parties are looking forward to the elections in the North in September. However he said they are disap

18 Aug, 2013