Two people shot dead in Hikkaduwa

Ex rebel regrets being with the LTTE

Gunasundaram Jeyasundaram a onetime LTTE supporter and arms procurer has said that he profoundly regretted supporting LTTE leader Vellupillai Prabakaran and denounced him and his violent behaviour, the Ministry of Defence said today. The Defence Ministry said that G. Jeyasundaram was taken into custody by the Terrorist Investigations Division in 2007 and investigations had revealed that he had contacts with the slain terrorist leader from his school days and had procured weapons for the terroris

13 May, 2013

Lanka’s first High Commission in Uganda

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni declared opened the new High Commission of Sri Lanka in Uganda at the Imperial Royal Hotel in Kampala today, the Ugandan daily New Vision reported. The colorful ceremony that was attended by the visiting President of Sri Lanka Mahinda Rajapaska was characterized by the unveiling of a plaque and cutting of a ribbon. The first envoy of Sri Lanka to Uganda is Velupillai Kananathan. The same function saw the launching of the rehabilitation of Masulita Vocational Tra

13 May, 2013

Duminda regains his post

Parliamentarian Duminda Silva has been reappointed as the organizer for the Sri Lanka Freedom Party in the Kolonnawa electorate. Minister Basil Rajapaksa was appointed as the SLFP organizer in the Kolonnawa electorate after the Mulleriyawa shooting incident in October 2011 in which Silva was seriously injured. However now that Silva has recovered and is out on bail he has been given back the SLFP Kolonnawa organizer?s post. Kolonnawa Urban Council Chairman Ravindra Udeshantha said that President

12 May, 2013