Opposition objects to impounding of passports of MPs

Lanka seeks intelligence sharing

Enhanced cooperation between Intelligence agencies is essential for maintaining national and regional security, Sri Lanka’s top defence official said. Regional security could only be ensured from threats of terrorism, human trafficking, drug smuggling and the illegal financial transactions by sharing intelligence, Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa said. The Press Trust of India reported that addressing the Joint Working Group on Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime of the Bay of Bengal

08 May, 2013

More Lankans take oaths in Fiji

More Sri Lankans have taken oaths yesterday as Judges and Magistrates in Fiji, the Fiji Times reported today. In all, three Judges and three Magistrtaes took oaths yesterday, including Justice Madduma Patabendige Sanjeeva Sudharshana De Silva, Justice Kamal Kumar and Justice Janaka Prasanna Bandara, Magistrate Puimini Weeratunga, Rajakaruna Girihagama and Nadimale Rupasinghe.. Justice Bandara and Justice Kumar have been in the country for some time while Justice Bandara was appointed a resident

07 May, 2013

Report finds Lankan were going to NZ

A classified report has confirmed that the boatload of Sri Lankan asylum seekers who arrived without warning on the West Australian coastline last month had been sailing for New Zealand, the New Zealand Herald reported today. It diverted from its course after the captain decided weather and other safety issues were too risky to continue beyond Australia. The sudden appearance of the boat at Geraldton, north of Perth, alarmed authorities who had no idea of the boat’s presence in Australian waters

07 May, 2013