Kolitha Gunatilleke appointed Chief of Defence Staff

CID quiz foreign filmmakers

The CID has seized the equipment of two foreign independent film makers and questioned them after they recorded footage on tourism and development in Kalpitiya. Belgium independent film maker Guilhem de Crombrugghe and his French girlfriend Marie Ferdinands were in Kalpitiya over the weekend for the shoot after obtaining approval from the Sri Lanka Tourist Development Authority. Crombrugghe?told the Colombo Gazette that a team of CID officers had questioned them in Colombo yesterday and their

20 Mar, 2012

Karuna snubbed for TMVP convention

Founder of the Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Pullikal (TMVP) Karuna Amman was a notable absentee at the first delegate?s convention of the TMVP held in Batticaloa over the weekend. The current leader of the TMVP and Chief Minister of the Eastern Province, Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan, presided over the convention where over ten thousand members of the party participated. Minister of Economic Development Basil Rajapaksa was the chief guest at the occasion while Minister of Provincial Council and Loc

19 Mar, 2012

Pillay ready to visit Sri Lanka

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay says she is ready to visit Sri Lanka but her office is yet to fix a date. Responding to a question posed by Tamil human rights activist S. V. Kirubaharan during the 19th session of the UN Human Rights Council, Pillay confirmed that the Sri Lankan government has invited her to visit the country, sources at the session told the Colombo Gazette. She said that she had received the invitation prior to the commencement of the UN Human Rights Coun

20 Mar, 2012