CC approves Dappula de Livera as new AG

BJP slams Indian policy on Lanka

India’s main opposition BJP today slammed the Indian central government over its foreign policy with Sri Lanka. BJP leader Jaswant Singh?said that India’s poor foreign policy had led to relations with Sri Lanka deteriorating, the Press Trust of India reported. “Also the experiment of Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka to fight against Liberation Tigers of Tamil Elam ( LTTE), whom India had promoted, is an example of our bad experience.” The former External Affairs Minister was addressing a

25 Jun, 2013

War displaced urged to register

The?Campaign for a Free and Fair Election (CaFFE) has urged war displaced people living in the North East who were displaced due to war and internal conflicts to register as voters to secure their voting rights. The Executive Director of CaFFE,?Keerthi Tennakoon, said that there is now an opportunity for the displaced people to ensure their voting rights and to make out whose names were in the Voters Registry in any Electoral Division until 2009 or whose names were not in any of the Voters Regis

25 Jun, 2013

UNP says CEB made profits

The opposition United National Party (UNP) says the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) had made profits during the first five months of this year and is in a position to reduce electricity tariffs. UNP MP Sajith Premadasa said that the CEB had made a profit of approximately Rs. 27 Billion from hydro power generated between January and May this year. Premadasa noted that the CEB had at one time claimed the use of fuel to produce electricity was costly and this was one reason the electricity tariffs h

25 Jun, 2013