Cabinet approves key electricity sector reforms

Indians at Welikada ready for transfer

Eleven prisoners from India lodged at the Welikada prison could be just one step away from being transferred to Indian prisons, if the Tamil Nadu government acts swiftly, the Hindu newspaper reported. Until 2010, the prisoners, all from Tamil Nadu, nurtured no hope of meeting their families ever since they were apprehended here and sentenced to life imprisonment for possessing narcotics. As per Sri Lankan law, persons caught with narcotic substances are given a life sentence and convicts usually

02 Jul, 2013

Commonwealth forum backs Lanka

Just days after the Commonwealth Secretariat had backed holding the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Sri Lanka, ?the Commonwealth Local Government Forum said Sri Lanak needs to be supported in it’s post war journey. In a letter published in the London Financial Times,?Carl Wright, Secretary General, Commonwealth Local Government Forum said that?Sri Lanka and its democracy need active support as well as constructive criticism in the long journey out of civil war. “Last year in

02 Jul, 2013

India happy with Lankan project

India says while the?construction of 1,000 houses for internally displaced persons in the Northern Province of Sri Lanka is complete the second phase of the housing project in the Northern and Eastern Provinces was progressing smoothly. The special secretary of Development Partnership Administration P S Raghavan?who led a high-level Monitoring Committee from Ministry of External Affairs to monitor the reconstruction work in Sri Lanka, said that the second phase of the housing project under the o

01 Jul, 2013