Three drown at sea, one rescued off Panadura

Mahinda says even he will fight corruption

Former President Mahinda Rajapakse today said?that he?will ensure corruption is stopped and a transparent mechanism is introduced to ensure equal opportunity to all. Rajapaksa also said that the opposition United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) was not divided and that it would gain majority votes at the August 17 parliamentary elections in order to form a new government. In a question and answer session on social media today, Rajapakse said that the reason he had made a re-entry to politics

23 Jul, 2015

Two Lankan refugees killed in Australian crash

Two men who died in a crash in Darwin on Wednesday night have been identified as?Tamil asylum seekers from Sri Lanka who came to Australia for a better life, their friends have said, according to ABC news Australia Close to a dozen friends of the Jesuraj Croos Arulnasan and Emmanuel Reval returned to the area on Thursday night where the crash happened on Trower Road in Nakara, trying to make sense of the accident for themselves. “We’ve just come to have a look at what happened to my friends,”

24 Jul, 2015

Cabinet approves taking legal action against UPFA

Cabinet has approved a proposal to take legal action against the?United People?s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) to secure outstanding payments for Government buses used by former President Mahinda Rajapaksa during the last Presidential election. The Minister of Internal Transport Ranjith Madduma Bandara presented to the Cabinet of Ministers the details relating to the expenditure incurred by institutions coming under his Ministry during the last Presidential Election. This included an expenditure of

23 Jul, 2015