Sri Lankan Rupee hits record low of Rs. 160 against US Dollar

Lankan arrested with golden collar

A Sri Lankan national was arrested at Chennai airport yesterday with a gold chain, worth nearly 8 lakh, in his shirt collar. Last week, 55-year-old Zuraiya Mumtaz, also of Sri Lanka, was caught with 700gm of gold biscuits in her wig. Around noon on Wednesday, police said, Sajeevan of Colombo, who had arrived by an Air India Express flight, was passing through customs. Officials checked his passport and found he had been a regular visitor to the city. The aroused their doubts. They checked his

08 Nov, 2012

Former LTTE commander killed in Paris

Nadarajah Mathinthiran alias Parithi, an ex-LTTE commander who had left the movement in the early 90’s and later coordinated Tamil organisational political activities in France since 2003, was killed last evening outside the office of the Tamil Coordinating Committee (TCC) in Paris, the Tamil Nwt website?quoted?news sources in France as saying. The website meanwhile said that people close to the 49-year-old organiser, who was also known as Reagon, blamed the Sri Lankan military establishment fo

09 Nov, 2012

Deported asylum seekers jailed

A group of failed asylum seekers who were deported from Australia have been produced in court and remanded, the police media unit said today. The police said that six of the 30 asylum seekers were produced before the Negambo magistrate yesterday and remanded till the 20th of this month. The other 24 failed asylum seekers were produced in court today and remanded till next week. The CID is conducting investigations. The Sri Lankan nationals were deported on a charter flight to Colombo from Chr

08 Nov, 2012