Monks force their way past gates near President’s House

Sri Lanka ranked 62 in Global Food Security Index

Sri Lanka has been ranked 62 out of 105 countries in the 2012 Global Food Security Index. The number one country is the United States of America while the worst country at 105 is Congo. The Global Food Security Index considers the core issues of affordability, availability, and quality across a set of 105 countries. The index is a dynamic quantitative and qualitative scoring model, constructed from 25 unique indicators, that measures these drivers of food security across both developing and de

01 Oct, 2012

Lankan woman in Dubai says she was forced into prostitution

A Sri Lankan woman in Dubai has told a local court that she was kidnapped by a man she met at a bus stop before being locked up in a brothel and forced to prostitute herself for Dh15 per customer. The National newspaper said that the woman?identified?only as SM, a 27-year-old Sri Lankan maid, told prosecutors that she arrived in Abu Dhabi in March 2011 but absconded from her sponsor’s house about a year later and went to meet her sisters in Sharjah. While she was waiting for them at the bus sta

01 Oct, 2012

Second phase of Indian housing project gets underway

The second phase of the Indian Housing Project for construction and repair of 43,000 Housing Units in Northern and Eastern Provinces was launched on the ground today jointly by Minister of Economic Development Basil Rajapaksa?and Ashok K. Kantha, High Commissioner of India at Periyamadhu, Mallavi and Eluthumadduval in Mannar, Mullaithivu and Jaffna districts respectively, the Indian High Commission said in a statement. In his remarks at the events, Minister Basil Rajapaksa expressed his deep ap

02 Oct, 2012