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(Lanka-e-News 31.July.2010 10.13PM) President Mahinda Rajapakse is preparing to hold a three day workshop to please and motivate the Govt. Ministers and MPs. This is a sequel…

(Lanka-e-News, July 31, 2010, 2.00 PM) A post-LTTE look at the fallout of the 1987 agreement that led to India’s direct involvement in the counter-insurgency operation in Sri Lanka.
It is 23 years since the Indo-Sri Lanka Agreement was signed on July 29, 1987…

(Lanka-e-News, July 30, 2010, 5.45PM) According to the Transparency International Corruption Perception Index for 2009 almost half of the people in the world…

(Lanka-e-News, July 30, 2010, 1.00PM second edition 1.30PM) The Siyatha TV station located at Gangarama Lake Road, Colombo came under a bomb attack this early morning (30) at about 1.30 a.m. There has been extensive…

(Lanka-e-News 30.July.2010 2.30PM) My dear Sri Lankans living here and overseas, members of the armed forces,…

(Lanka-e-News, July 30, 2010, 1.00PM second edition 1.30PM) The Siyatha TV station located at Gangarama Lake Road, Colombo came under a bomb attack this early morning (30) at about 1.30 a.m. There has been extensive…

(Lanka-e-News, July 30, 2010, 11.45AM) Senior Attorney at law Rienzie Aresecularatne when forwarding evidence in writing stated that in the B report of the CID presented to the Colombo Magistrate Court…

(Lanka-e-News 29.July.2010 10.20pm) The Govt. does not view the Tamil international Diaspora now in the same way as it did in the past. Today there is also a Diaspora which is against the LTTE. KP has been a great asset to the Govt…..

(Lanka-e-News 29.July.2010 10.25PM) When the case against Gen. Fonseka on the ‘white flag story’ purportedly related to Fredrica Janz of the…

(Lanka-e-News, July 29, 2010, 3.30PM) Both Mahinda Rajapaksa and Asif Ali Zardari have reason to sport a smile over the brickbats that have come Ban Ki-moon’s way from one of his deputies. Inga-Britt Ahlenius,…

(Lanka-e-News, July 28, 2010, 10.25PM) Addressing a media briefing at the UNP media unit today (28), UNP Gen. Secretary Tissa Attanayake said, the Rajapakse Govt.’s favorite preoccupation is…

(Lanka-e-News, July 28, 2010, 10.25PM) The Colombo High Court judge Sunil Rajapakse today (28) sentenced the two accused who confessed to conspiring and providing information to the LTTE regarding the place of residence of former Minister…

(Lanka-e-News, July 27, 2010, 10.50PM) The Magistrate of Colombo Rashmi Singapulli ordered the CID yesterday (26) to inform Courts on the 2nd August of the progress made in regard to the case filed by the Attorney General against…

(Lanka-e-News, July 27, 2010, 5.15 PM) According to information reaching Lanka e news, an Opposition Tamil M P is engaged in a sordid attempt to suppress the molestation charges leveled against an Appeal Court judge by…

(Lanka-e-News, July 27, 2010, 5.15 PM) A senior supporter, Rienzie Algama of the UNP who set fire to himself in front of the UNP Headquarters, Sri Kotha yesterday evening (26) succumbed to his…

(Lanka-e-News, July 26, 2010, 11.00 PM) TNA Batticaloa District MP P. Ariyaneththiran has requested President Rajapakse to release the 55 Tamil women political prisoners and…

(Lanka-e-News, July 26, 2010, 11.00 PM) The Police has still not taken steps to record a statement of the Appeal Court judge who is allegedly involved in the molestation of a…

(Lanka-e-News, July 26, 2010, 2.30PM) The President Mahinda Rajapakse who some weeks ago was adamant on extending the number of Executive President’s terms even further in his ever growing power obsession did a sudden 180 degree…

(Lanka-e-News 25.July.2010 -1.10PM) The BBC Sinhala service including ‘Sandesaya’ and other miniature services and groups world wide are to be closed down in September 2010, it has been decided,…

(Lanka-e-News 24.July.2010 11.30PM) We give below excerpts of a speech made by the present opposition leader , Ranil Wickremesinghe in 1992 as reported in the Hansard….

(Lanka-e-News 24.July.2010 12.15M) This week the Sri Lankan media industry, media professionals, newspaper readers, news Website viewers as well as…

(Lanka-e-News, July 24, 2010, 10.20AM) Representatives of Political, legal, human rights, women’s rights have demanded the Govt. to arrange for the immediate arrest of the appeal Court Judge by the police and to take measures to institute legal action…

(Lanka-e-News, July 24, 2010, 10.20AM) 12 lakhs of Sri Lankan families are homeless. 11000 families who were devastated by Tsunami have still not been provided…

(Lanka-e-News 22.July.2010 10.20PM) It is reported that the Wijaya publications Establishment has requested to stop publishing all news regarding the molestation charges against….

(Lanka-e-News 22.July.2010 10.20PM) The Colombo Fort Magistrate Ms. Lanka Jayaratne yesterday (21) instructed the Court Registrar to intimate…

(Lanka-e-News 22.July.2010 10.20PM) DNF Parliamentary member Anura Kumara Dissanayake said, every time national issues cropped up , the people always congregated at the Lipton Circus and stage d their protests successfully….

(Lanka-e-News 22.July.2010 3.30PM) Forget the result of the Test. Sri Lanka need just 95 to win, with more than one session to go on the final day. Look at the bigger picture. Muttiah Muralitharan has reached the magical 800…

(Lanka-e-News, July 21, 2010, 11.30 PM) It is reported that the Chief Justice (CJ) has ordered the CID to investigate whether the servant girl who was working in the house of the Appeal Court judge had been indeed molested by the Appeal Court judge as alleged,…

(Lanka-e-News, July 21, 2010, 11.30 PM) Colombo District M P Gen. Fonseka made a request to the speaker yesterday (20) in Parliament to summon the Army Commander before the privileges…

(Lanka-e-News, July 21, 2010, 11.30 PM) The Elections Commissioner Dayananda Dissanayake had filed preliminary objections in the Supreme Court requesting the…

(Lanka-e-News, July 21, 2010, 11.30 PM) It is reported that the Attorney General (AG) has ordered the CID to investigate whether the servant girl who was working in the house of the Appeal Court judge had been indeed molested by the Appeal Court judge as alleged,…

(Lanka-e-News, July 21, 2010, 1.20PM) The Govt. which is confronted by a grave crisis has by now split into three factions, Govt. internal sources say.

It is reported that those within the Govt…

(Lanka-e-News, July 20, 2010, 11.45PM) After the Lanka e news website exposed the criminal act of seduction that was committed on a 20 year old servant girl working in the house of an Appeal Court judge, it is reported that the…

(Lanka-e-News, July 20, 2010, 10.30PM) Mr.Shiv Shankar Menon, India’s National Security Adviser (NSA), visited China as the special envoy of Prime Minister Dr.Manmohan Singh from July 3 to 6,2010, for talks with Prime Minister…

(Lanka-e-News, July 19, 2010, 11.00PM) The JVP pointed out, if measures are being taken to discuss with political parties on the Constitutional amendments, firstly the Govt. should present a summary of its amendment…

(Lanka-e-News, July 19, 2010, 11.00PM) A massive protest campaign is to be staged at the Campbell Park on the 21st of this month at 3.30 p.m. by the…

(Lanka-e-News, July 19, 2010, 11.15PM) The Senior employees of the Sri Lanka Cricket Association (SLCA) claim that the Secretary of the Sri Lanka interim administration…

(Lanka-e-News 18.July.2010 7.45PM) MUTTIAH MURALITHARAN was born in the Zodiacal Sign of Aries ruled by number 9. So,date 18(1+8=9) is…

(Lanka-e-News 18.July.2010 6.20PM) In response to previous questions, the Spokesperson said that the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for…

(Lanka-e-News 18.July.2010 7.15PM) According to UN Organization reports , another group of 8 persons had been appointed under the leadership of Jessica Nivvarath of South Africa to extend support to the three member…

(Lanka-e-News 18.July.2010 7.15PM) Sri Lanka’s cricket bowling phenomenon Muthiah Muralitharan has announced he will be making his last…

(Lanka-e-News, July 18, 2010, 7.40AM) Resettlement and traditional Industries Minister Douglas Devananda said, he is in the process…

(Lanka-e-News 17.July.2010 11.55PM) As the dengue fever has reached epidemic proportions in the country, for the first time in Sri Lanka’s history…

(Lanka-e-News 17.July.2010 11.55PM) Investigations into the alleged seduction of a 20 year old servant girl working in the house of an Appeal Court judge has been suppressed because of pressure from the top, it is reported….

(Lanka-e-News, July 17, 2010, 4.50PM) July 15 my father was supposed to be at Parliament at 9.30am for a Health Ministry advisory Committee meeting.

Despite a clear order by…

(Lanka-e-News 17.July.2010 11.55PM) Today , Ministers are functioning in fear. If a secret voting is conducted, all the Ministers will be unanimous…

(Lanka-e-News 17.July.2010 11.55PM) The owner of the premises where the Lanka e news website office is being run is making efforts to evict…

(Lanka-e-News, July 16, 2010, 1.35PM) Despite a clear unequivocal order by the Courts that the Colombo District M P General Sarath Fonseka who is currently in Army custody shall be allowed…

(Lanka-e-News, July 16, 2010, 10.00AM) Media and information Minister Keheliya Rambukwela speaking at the media briefing at the Ministry complex yesterday (15) to intimate the Cabinet decisions,…

(Lanka-e-News, July 16, 2010, 10.00AM) When the ‘Debiddo’ drama directed by Prasanna Vithanage was staged in a Colombo Hall on the 23rd,…

(Lanka-e-News, July 15, 2010, 3.20PM) At the recent meeting of the security Council it was decided that all International and local non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) shall be registered again, it is reported.

The Govt. had been watchful and had been paying…

(Lanka-e-News, July 15, 2010, 9.30AM) Hambantota District UN P M P sajith Premadasa addressing a media briefing at the Opposition media unit on the 14th said,…

(Lanka-e-News 15.July.2010 4.50AM) A Manager of a tourist Hotel at Thalpe, Galle in Sri Lanka was arrested by the Police for allegedly molesting a 14 year old British girl….

(Lanka-e-News 15.July.2010 4.50AM) For the first time the Govt. held its Cabinet meeting at Kilinochchi yesterday…

(Lanka-e-News, July 14, 2010, 12.25PM) The President has given an assurance to the UNP leadership that he would not take no more of the UNP MPs to the Govt. side…

(Lanka-e-News, July 13, 2010, 10.30PM) The CID has filed a petition before the Magistrate Court on the 12th against Gen. Fonseka and a Secretary of his in relation to an allegation…

(Lanka-e-News, July 13, 2010, 10.30PM) The opposition accuses that the budget forwarded on 29th June to cover the expenditure for 6 months for 2010 prepared to tally according to…

(Lanka-e-News, July 13, 2010, 7.15PM) A new Navy camp is to be established at Kajuwatte in the Wakarai District Secretarial Division, Batticaloa.

It is reported that the Navy had requested…

(Lanka-e-News, July 13, 2010, 2.00PM) T M P K party leader Vijaya Baan charged that the Central Govt. of India is soft pedaling the issue of the SL Navy allegedly harassing…

(Lanka-e-News, July 13, 2010, 2.00PM) At the special meeting held at the Temple trees on the 12th, between the President Mahinda Rajapakse and the representatives of the main opposition party led by Ranil Wickremesinghe,…