Minor tremor reported near Victoria Dam

Harin Fernando apologises to Parliament over words he used

Minister Harin Fernando today extended an apology for?using unparliamentary language in Parliamentary recently. Making a special statement in Parliament today, the Minister said that the words he used were instigated by the opposition. Speaker Karu Jayasuriya accepted the apology and urged the members of the House to respect Parliament in future. Fernando was heard saying ?mother f*****? in Sinhalese in Parliament recently during his speech but the words were later removed from the video post

25 May, 2016

Cabinet approves establishing an office on missing persons

Cabinet has approved establishing an office on missing persons, the Government information department said today. The Government said there have been strong requests for providing true information on disappeared or missing persons to their relatives to know their actual fate. “It will enable such families to reunited, closure with regard to such disappearance, or granted with reparations and other relief and support,” the Government said. Therefore, a proposal made by Prime Minister Ranil Wic

25 May, 2016

Four people attempting to send Lankans to Australia arrested in India

The ?Q? Branch CID police in Coimbatore, India arrested four persons, including a Sri Lankan refugee, a Sri Lankan national and two residents of Chennai on Tuesday for allegedly collecting money from inmates of the Sri Lankan refugee camp at Kottur in rural Coimbatore and tempting to illegally take them to Australia. The accused were identified as A. Edison alias Rajan (48), an inmate of the refugee camp at Kummidipoondi in Thiruvallur district, L. Vimalan (31) of Yanai Vilunthan Kulam, Agariya

26 May, 2016