USS Canberra (LCS-30) makes port call in Colombo

Visa fraudster arrested

A Sri Lankan visa applicant was arrested today for using deception and a false identity to apply for a UK visa. He was referred by UK Visas and Immigration to the Fraud Investigation Bureau police in Colombo.?The visa applicant was applying to visit the UK. Checks revealed that the applicant had made four previous applications in a different identity and has now applied using a different name and birth details in which he had fraudulently obtained a Sri Lankan passport and other supporting docum

01 Aug, 2013

President invites the Pope

President Mahinda Rajapaksa has written to His Holiness Pope Francis I extending an invitation to visit Sri Lanka. ?On behalf of the Government and the people of Sri Lanka, I consider it a great privilege and an honour to extend to Your Holiness an invitation to undertake a visit to this beautiful country, which only recently emerged from three decades of conflict,? President Rajapaksa wrote. ?A visit by Your Holiness to Sri Lanka would be a momentous occasion to all Sri Lankans, and I earnestly

02 Aug, 2013

Gampaha factory closed temporarily

The government has decided to temporarily close a gloves factory in the Gampaha area following violent protests over allegations chemical waste from the premises is contaminating water in the area. According to the police, the decision to temporarily close the factory was taken at a meeting held between officials and Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa today. Several people were injured when a protest over the contaminated water in Gampaha turned violent this evening when the army and police w

01 Aug, 2013