Slight change in prevailing dry weather expected tomorrow

Maithripala expected to make another u-turn

President Maithripala Sirisena is expected to make another U-turn with regards to the decision on giving former President Mahinda Rajapaksa nominations to contest the Parliament elections. An official in the President’s office, who was to resign over Sirisena’s decision to give Rajapaksa nominations, had later held back his resignation after receiving an assurance that Sirisena may make another u-turn. Sirisena had already this week announced he will not be giving nominations to Rajapaksa but

04 Jul, 2015

JHU quits from UPFA, forms new coalition

The Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) today announced that it had quit from the United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) and that it had formed a new coalition. JHU General Secretary and former Minister Champika Ranawaka said that his party played a key role to help Maithripala Sirisena win the January 8 Presidential elections. He said the JHU had consistently pushed for the powers of the President to be reduced?and this was achieved following the January election through the 19th Amendment to the con

05 Jul, 2015

Hillary emails reveal IMF was ok with deaths in Lanka

Emails of former US Secretary of State and 2016 Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, placed on the public domain last week by the US State Department, have revealed some of the correspondence she had on Sri Lanka in 2009 during the critical stage of the war. In one such email, Clinton was told that the IMF had, during the final stages of the war, slammed her in a conversation the IMF had with Timothy Franz Geithner, the then United States Secretary of the Treasury, ?for ordering the IMF to s

05 Jul, 2015