Sri Lankans stranded in Jordan repatriated

President asserts no room for autocratic regimes in future

President Maithripala Sirisena said the top most priority of the Government is to create legal, constitutional and political conditions in Sri Lanka to ensure that corrupt, rotten, autocratic regimes will not come to power in the future. He said that such undemocratic regimes of family nepotism was a curse on the nation and the way the state resources and finances were swindled is unthinkable. The President said that the Government enacted the 19th Amendment to the Constitution exactly a year

27 Apr, 2016

Defence Ministry insists no travel restrictions on foreigners

The Defence Ministry today insisted that there is no travel restriction on foreigners visiting the North and East. The Defence Ministry statement said that certain websites have attempted to mislead the public and the international?fora by misinterpreting a news article published in the official website of the Ministry of Defence of?Sri Lanka (www.defence.lk) on 30th October 2014 under the headline “Foreign Passport holders?traveling to the North”. According to the Defence Ministry?the officia

26 Apr, 2016

TNA demands probe over ?illegal occupation? by army

Sri Lanka?s main Tamil party, the Tamil National Alliance today?called for a probe on the alleged illegal occupation of civilian lands by the military in the Northern Province, the Press Trust of India reported. The Tamil National Alliance was responding to accusations that on April 16, a group of party legislators led by the main opposition leader R Sampanthan had forcibly entered a military installation at Paravipanjan area in the northern Kilinochchi district. ?There is no camp there so the

27 Apr, 2016