The summary of evidence over charges against retired General Sarath Fonseka in compliance with provisions of the Army Act was completed and handed over to the Commander of the Army Jagath Jayasuriya. A special communiqué issued by the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) on Monday said the legal officers in the Ar... [More]

India intends to open a Consulate General in Jaffna to help the people of the peninsula and fully restore the connectivity to south India. The Government of Sri Lanka has agreed to the proposal. Visiting Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao told the Indian media contingent in an informal interacti... [More]

Visiting Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao called on Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa here on Sunday and exchanged views on whole range of issues of mutual interest to both the counties in general and the ongoing rehabilitation and resettlement of the nearly three lakh Tamil civilians displaced d... [More]

Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa has taken exception to the intention of the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to appoint a panel of experts to advise him (the SG) on Sri Lanka and said the move is totally uncalled for and unwarranted. On February 26, the spokesperson of Mr. Ban Ki-Moon had di... [More]

On the invitation of the Government of Sri Lanka, Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao is scheduled to undertake a three day visit to the island nation beginning on March 6 for interaction with her interlocutors here on a wide range of issues of mutual interest to both the counties. A statement issued by... [More]

The Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) led by V. Anandasangaree in its manifesto for the April 8 general election has advocated a federal model on the lines of Indian system to resolve the ethnic conflict. “The TULF during the past five years had been advocating for a solution under a Federal Con... [More]

Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa has extended the emergency laws by another month invoking powers conferred on him under the executive presidency. The validity of the emergency regulations extended by the Parliament which was dissolved on February 10, in the run up to the general election sched... [More]

The Sri Lankan Government is to amend the Act which deals with Non Governmental Organisations (NGO) with the objective to enable the concerned agencies to probe their activities and take appropriate action against them, Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickramanayaka told the Daily Mirror online. It quote... [More]

The Sri Lankan government on Thursday made it known that fresh charges would be framed against the defeated opposition common consensus presidential candidate, retired General Sarath Fonseka, in civil courts under the Penal Code and Exchange Control Act in two weeks. Minister of Export Development ... [More]

The British government defended Foreign Secretary David Miliband’s decision to address a meeting of the Global Tamil Forum here saying that Britain would “engage” with all members of the Sri Lankan community who shared its view that a peaceful political solution was the only way to achieve lasting ... [More]

International Crisis Group (ICG), an independent non-governmental organisation based in Brussels — with a branch in Colombo — in its latest report has strongly urged the Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora to jettison once and for all the failed Tamil Eelam agenda of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE... [More]

The Sri Lankan government says there has been a sharp rise in the number of local and foreign tourists visiting the Northern Province in recent weeks. The state-run English weekly Sunday Observer quoted Tourism Minister Achala Jagoda as saying nearly 550,000 local and foreign tourists had toured Ja... [More]

Sri Lanka on Saturday complained to two visiting envoys that some countries were channelling funds via international and local non-governmental organisations to destabilise democracy. In separate meetings with Australian special envoy to Sri Lanka John McCarthy and Ambassador of Sudan Khidir Haroun... [More]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa is confident that the United People’s Freedom Alliance, led by his Sri Lanka Freedom Party, will win the forthcoming parliamentary elections “very comfortably.” Asked whether his realistic target was a two-thirds majority, he responded: “I think we will be able to get tha... [More]

Basil Rajapaksa, the adviser to Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa and his brother on Friday signed his nomination papers to contest the April 8 Parliamentary elections. Mr. Basil filed his nomination papers from Gampaha district in the Western Province. He was also a member of the dissolved P... [More]

The former Sri Lankan Army Chief, Sarath Fonseka, has become unpopular after the Presidential election, said Chief Minister of the Central Province Sarath Ekanayake. Talking to journalists here on Monday, Mr. Ekanayake said General (retired) Fonseka was deserted by the Opposition soon after he los... [More]

Two students were killed and eight others injured on Monday after an accidental explosion in the northern Sri Lankan city of Jaffna, police said. According to the police, the students had picked up a ball like object from the road and had later thrown it away after being suspicious. Upon throwing ... [More]

The Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam will not remain a mute spectator if there is failure or delay in implementation of assurances by Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, given at the time of the recent presidential election, on devolution of powers to Sri Lankan Tamils, DMK president and Chief Minister... [More]

Sri Lankan government has warned the detained ex-army chief Sarath Fonseka against providing “evidence to certain international organisations” on alleged war crimes during the final battle with LTTE as it took strong exception to his remarks that he would “reveal the truth“. “He has reportedly spok... [More]

With the extension of emergency laws by another month on Friday, the Sri Lanka Parliament is all set to be dissolved in the next few days and the general election to choose new members is scheduled to be held in the first half of April. “A formal announcement on dissolution of the Parliament consti... [More]