Port operations disrupted owing to protest

TNA election manifesto notes 13-A flawed

The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) says the 13th Amendment to the constitution, which was part of the Indo-Lanka accord, is flawed as power is concentrated at the Center and its agent, the Governor. In its election manifesto released in Jaffna today, the TNA said that the Tamil people are entitled to self-determination in keeping with United Nations International Covenants on Civil and Political Rights and Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, both of which Sri Lanka has accepted and acceded to.

25 Jul, 2015

Police insist no threat in Lanka despite BBS claims

The police insisted that there was no threat from the ISIS militants in Sri Lanka as the group was not active in the country. Earlier today, the General Secretary of the Bodu Bala Sena, the venerable Galabodathe Gnanasara thera had filed a complaint with the police saying that he was under threat from ISIS. He had also claimed that the Sri Lankan born ISIS militant?who was reportedly killed in Syria, had plans to assassinate him. However top police sources said that while it was investigating

26 Jul, 2015

President Sirisena in Maldives on a State Visit

President Maithripala Sirisena arrived in the Maldives this afternoon on a State Visit to participate in the events held to mark the Golden Jubilee of National Independence. The visit is being made at the invitation of President Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom. The Sri Lankan President was greeted on arrival at the Ibrahim Nasir International Airport by Vice President, Ahmed Adheeb Abdul Ghafoor, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dunya Maumoon, Minister at the President?s Office, Mohamed Hussain Shareef

26 Jul, 2015