Man kills wife during case in Kegalle court

Finance sector needs radical changes says Minister

Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake said that the sectors of the economy will be opened enabling the private sector as well to play an equal role with the government. He said for the first time in the history, a separate department will be created at the Ministry of Finance for the private sector development from January 01, 2016, the Finance Ministry said yesterday. The Finance Minister said this while speaking at an interactive forum with the key private sector establishments where a represen

22 Oct, 2015

Callum Macrae urges local TV to show war film

The director of the Emmy-nominated feature documentary No Fire Zone: The Killing Fields of Sri Lanka has welcomed the conclusion in Sri Lanka?s long delayed Paranagama report that the video evidence in No Fire Zone is ?unlikely to be faked?. The director, Callum Macrae, has called on Sri Lankan television networks to broadcast the film as soon as possible: ?Now that our findings and our evidence have been so clearly vindicated, not just by the recent report released by the United Nations High C

22 Oct, 2015

Karunanidhi, Ramadoss push for foreign probe on Lanka

India’s DMK leader M Karunanidhi and PMK founder S. Ramadoss made a strong case for an international inquiry into human rights violations in the final phase of the civil war in Sri Lanka, arguing that the Presidential Commission to investigate into complaints regarding missing persons had found the allegations credible, The Hindu newspaper reported. The report of the Maxwell Paranagama Commission tabled in Sri Lankan Parliament called for an independent judicial investigation into the war crime

23 Oct, 2015