Suspects arrested over Kataragama temple shooting further remanded

UPFA fears for the life of Mahinda Rajapaksa

The United People?s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) has raised concerns over?the life of former President and Kurunegala District UPFA candidate at the Parliamentary election, Mahinda Rajapaksa. UPFA candidate and Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) member Dilan Perera said that a suspicious character had visited the election office of Mahinda Rajapaksa in Kurunegala but had later gone missing when an attempt was made to verify his identity. ?We have information that this man had visited the location for a

02 Aug, 2015

JVP accuses TNA of using communal issue for votes

The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) today accused the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) of attempting to incite communal hatred in order to win votes at the Parliamentary elections this month. JVP General Secretary Tilvin Silva said that the TNA had failed to meet the expectations of the Tamils in the North and so now they are attempting to use the communal issue to win votes. Silva also said that the TNA election manifesto will go in favour of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa since the document

02 Aug, 2015

UPFA suspects domestic probe will have foreign hand

The United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) suspects the proposed domestic investigation on the war will have an international involvement. Former Foreign Minister, Professor G.L Peiris, said that a leaked UN report makes clear that the international community?will be directly involved in the investigations. “The report says the investigation will be a domestic process with foreign technical assistance,” he said at a media briefing today. However he said the nature of?foreign assistance and t

01 Aug, 2015