Number of coronavirus patients detected in Sri Lanka crosses 20,000 mark

Moves to block Weliweriya coverage

Details are emerging of efforts to control media coverage of the Weliweriya incident, the US based Committee to Protect journalists (CPJ) said today. CPJ said that in Rathupaswala, Weliweriya, on August 1, soldiers beat and fired on people protesting what they feared was contamination of their drinking water by a nearby factory. Local journalists’ support group Free Media Movement, in an email statement the day after the attack, said, “It is very clear that military crackdown has been pre-plann

09 Aug, 2013

Lankan refugee, wife seek help

Two Dental college students, a Sri Lankan refugee and the daughter of an Army officer from Kerala, have surrendered at an all-women’s police station in Rameswaram, India, with a request to help them get the consent of their parents to lead a peaceful married life. Their decision to do so followed a complaint given by the girl’s father sometime ago that she was missing, police said. The police said that Stefi Agnus (19) and Gajendran (20) of Jaffna in Sri Lanka were doing B.D.S course at MGR Medi

09 Aug, 2013

CWC MP Rajadurai resigns

Ceylon Workers’ Congress MP and lawyer P Rajadurai has decided to resign from the party. His resignations follows a rift with the CWC leadership headed by Minister Arumugam Thondaman. The Nuwara Eliya District MP was very active in his electorate especially when it came to dealing with issues faced by Tamils of Indian origin. P Rajadurai is expected to hand over his resignation letter to the party tomorrow or on Saturday. ?(Colombo Gazette)

08 Aug, 2013