Government to purchase 500MW of power from private sector

Pregnant Lankan maid sent back

A Saudi sponsor, who spent SR 20,000 to recruit a servant from Sri Lanka, was shocked to find that his new maid was three months pregnant on arrival in the Kingdom, Arab News reported. Saroja Pushpavalli (not her real name) from Maskeliya in Sri Lanka, came to Riyadh two weeks ago and her sponsor found that she was pregnant when she underwent medical tests in the capital. The Saudi sponsor handed her to the Sri Lankan Embassy to send her back home since she would not be able to attend to househo

22 Apr, 2013

President saddened over China quake

President Mahinda Rajapaksa, in a condolence message to the President of China Xi Jingping said he was deeply saddened to hear of the loss of life and devastation as a result of the earthquake in the Sichuan Province of China. The President said that while natural disasters and their consequences are beyond human control he is certain that the Chinese people will courageously face it and recover in the shortest possible time under the Chinese President?s leadership. ?I offer my deepest condolenc

21 Apr, 2013

Tangalle rape victim speaks out

A woman raped at a hotel in Sri Lanka has spoken for the first time of the attack in which she was badly beaten and her British boyfriend was killed, the British Sunday Times reported today. Victoria Tkacheva, 24, a Russian languages graduate, fears that the men responsible for her rape and the murder of Khuram Shaikh, a 32-year-old Red Cross worker from Rochdale, will not be brought to justice. One of the eight suspects who were arrested but later released is a local politician whose family hav

21 Apr, 2013