Long queues at toilets at BIA as some were shut

Two robbers are deserters

The army says two of the five robbers arrested over the break-in at the home of journalist Mandana Ismail Abeywickrema yesterday are deserters and not soldiers still serving in the army. Army spokesman Brigadier Ruwan Wanigasooriya said that some parties including web based media have attempted to implicate the Sri Lanka Army in the robbery that took place at Bambalapitiya. ?The Sri Lanka Army does not approve any crime and particularly we regret this incident in which a senior journalist has su

25 Aug, 2013

K’nidhi wants action on Lanka

DMK President M Karunanidhi stressed that setting up of an Indian naval base in Dhanushkodi or Mandapam near Rameswaram will bring a “lasting solution” to the issue of alleged attacks on fishermen by the Sri Lankan Navy, the New Indian Express reported. Karunanidhi said that many problems would have been averted if the Centre and Tamil Nadu government had shown even “one per cent” of that care for the state fishermen. In a letter to partymen in the DMK mouthpiece, ‘Murasoli,’ he recalled that wh

25 Aug, 2013

MR to head to Jaffna

President Mahinda Rajapaksa? is scheduled to address five political meetings in the north next month, Minister of Environment and the UPFA Secretary Susil Premjayantha? said. Accordingly meetings have been scheduled to be held in Vavuniya, Kilinochchi, Mullaitivu, Mannar and Jaffna in support of the UPFA candidates contesting the forthcoming northern Provincial Council elections. Premjayantha who is gearing up the campaign for the UPFA in the Jaffna district addressing the media at his Jaffna of

26 Aug, 2013