Four suspects arrested for promoting LTTE on social media

President sees challenges for unity Government

President Maithripala Sirisena says the National unity Government will face several challenges ahead as it looks to rebuild the country. Speaking at the?69th anniversary meeting of the United National Party (UNP) at the UNP headquarters in Sirikotha today, the President said that the new Government must not for one moment assume that the enemy is asleep. He said that some elements operating from overseas are still keen on dividing the country while in Sri Lanka there are groups who backed the

06 Sep, 2015

Kandy to be Sri Lanka’s first ‘smart city’

The Government hopes to make Kandy the first ‘smart city’ in Sri Lanka and cabinet approval will be sought for this. Minister of Urban Development and?Water Supply?Rauff Hakeem said that funding will be sought for the project from foreign donor agencies. “We will later expand that to Galle, Colombo and other areas,” the Minister told reporters in Kandy. He said the project will not be very costly and the Government will be able to implement it with USD 10-15 million. We maybe able to do two o

06 Sep, 2015

S.B blames Mahinda for UPFA polls loss

United Peoples Freedom Alliance (UPF) member of Parliament and Government Minister S B Dissanayake today blamed former President Mahinda Rajapaksa for the loss suffered by the UPFA at the last election. Dissanayake said that Rajapaksa should not have contested the Parliamentary election which the UPFA eventually lost by a slim margin. He noted that Rajapaksa failed to get the full support of the Muslims, Tamils and Catholics. The Minister, speaking to reporters in Kandy today, said that if Pr

06 Sep, 2015