Three accomplices of ?Angoda Lokka? arrested

No loss from Colombo night race

The Ministry of Finance and Planning, in a media statement, says there is no truth to claims that the Government has lost Rupees 2022 Million due to importing racing cars for the recent Colombo night race. There is no tax for Machinery, Jewellery, Motor Cars or any other items which are imported to this Country for development projects and exhibitions on a temporary basis which will be re-exported, the Ministry of Finance and Planning said. It said that the equipment or machinery brought to th

21 Dec, 2012

Lanka to send another 200 for UN peace keeping ops

Sri Lanka is to deploy a 200 member contingent comprising of the army, navy and air force on a UN Peace Keeping Mission to Haiti. The contingent which is due to leave the island shortly had its passing out parade at the Sri Lanka Engineers Regimental Headquarters premises at the Panagoda Army Cantonment this week, the army media unit said. The contingent includes seven army officers and 112 other ranks, one navy officer and thirty-nine sailors and one air force officer and forty airmen. The c

20 Dec, 2012

Mass grave unearths ghosts from troubled past

A mass grave unearthed in Sri Lanka has stirred memories of the country’s bloody insurgencies and sparked calls for an official inquiry in the island nation that has drawn global scrutiny for its chequered human rights record. At a building site near a hospital in Matale, a central town 142 km (88 miles) from the capital, Colombo, excavators have found the skeletons, or parts of the skeletons, of at least 59 people. It is possible they died of natural causes many years ago but in a country roc

19 Dec, 2012