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(Lanka-e-News 05.Aug.2010 2.00PM) The Deputy Minister Mervyn Silva told in Parliament yesterday (4) that the binding of the Samurdhi officer to a tree for not attending the Dengue…

(Lanka-e-News, Aug. 04, 2010, 10.20 PM) The Chief incumbent of the Batticaloa Sri Mangalarama is to commence a fast unto death tomorrow (05) in protest because…

(Lanka-e-News, Aug. 04, 2010, 10.20 PM) Political parties, Lawyers, Govt. Administrative officers Association, Samurdhi officers Association and a majority of Organizations have begun bitterly castigating the President and his Govt…

(Lanka-e-News, Aug. 04, 2010, 10.55AM) The Govt. has decided to appoint an outsider even this time to the post of Auditor General which post is falling vacant after the 20th of August this year…

(Lanka-e-News, Aug. 03, 2010, 10.25 PM) Deputy Minister Mervyn Silva has this noon (03) tied a Samurdhi officer to a tree for not attending…

(Lanka-e-News, Aug. 03, 2010, 10.25 PM) According to reports reaching Lanka e news, there had been death threats via phone calls to the activists of the University lecturers’ Committee Forum…

(Lanka-e-News, Aug. 03, 2010, 10.25 PM) President’s Counsel Tirantha Waliathta, the Attorney at Law for the accused Gen. Fonseka and his Secretary told…

(Lanka-e-News, Aug. 03, 2010, 4.10PM) Military Attaché for Sudanese Embassy Major General Abdul Moniem paid a courtesy call on the Commander of the Army Lieutenant General…

(Lanka-e-News, Aug. 03, 2010, 1.10PM) The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) alleges that the settling of families of the Forces in Mannar and Kilinochchi and the denial of ancestral lands of the displaced Tamil refugees…

(Lanka-e-News, Aug 02, 2010, 10.00PM) SLFP (M) wing leader and Matara District M P Mangala Samaraweera is to be enrolled as a member of the UNP on the 6th Friday at Sri Kotha directly before UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe…

(Lanka-e-News 02.Aug.2010 1.45PM) The Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) is pleased to present a new report looking at the freedom of expression on the Internet…

(Lanka-e-News, Aug. 01, 2010, 11.45 PM) A Sri Lankan Tamil national, Thivanthan, a resident in London has commenced a walk from London to the UN Human rights Commission (UNHRC) Headquarters…

(Lanka-e-News, Aug. 01, 2010, 10.30AM) The media group which visited the North form the East have revealed that though a year has elapsed after the war has ended, the displaced Tamil population in…

(Lanka-e-News 01.Aug.2010 6.00AM) The U.S. Embassy on Saturday condemned attacks on a Sri Lankan television station saying such acts imperil media freedom…

(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…