Police probe clash involving Jaffna MP and two others

Chief prelate says airports and highways not important

A leading Buddhist monk today played down some of the development work carried out by former President Mahinda Rajapaksa in the Hambantota District. The Chief Prelate of the Malwattu Chapter, the Venerable Thibbotuwawa Sri Sumangala thera, said that airports and highways are not things the ordinary man in Hambantota wants. He said this while speaking to Western Province Chief Minister Prassana Ranatunga when Ranatunga met the monk in Kandy today. Ranatunga, who is contesting the August 17 Par

15 Jul, 2015

Loans obtained from China will not be cancelled

The government said that it had no plans of cancelling loans obtained from China and added that such loans were vital for the development of the country. Cabinet Spokesperson Dr. Rajitha Senaratne told reporters today that the government was renegotiating the terms for the Chinese loans which had been obtained but had no plans to exit from such loans. “We are only renegotiating the terms of the Chinese loans. We have absolutely no plans to retire from them,” he said. During the past 10 years,

16 Jul, 2015

Lankan Tamil arrested in India with 500 gm heroin

India’s?Ramanathapuram district unit of Organised Crime Intelligence (OCI) arrested a Sri Lankan Tamil, who was a members of the now-defunct People?s Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE), when he attempted to smuggle 500 gm of heroin near Kothandaramar temple in Danushkodi. Acting on a tip-off, two teams from the unit detained him when he was waiting at the shore to hand over the contraband to a boatman to smuggle it to Sri Lanka, The Hindu newspaper reported. The police identified t

16 Jul, 2015