Canadian MP Rathika Sitsabaiesan says she was warned by Government officials that she could face arrest or deportation but denied reports that she was under house arrest, the National Post reported.

Caitlin Workman, a spokesperson for the Department of Foreign Affairs, said in an email Wednesday that the Canadian High Commission has “spoken with relevant Sri Lankan police and immigration authorities all of whom have advised us that at this time they have no arrest warrant.”

The Tamil Diaspora is prepared to work with the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) to help strengthen their voice in the international arena this year.

A leading Diaspora group said that it hopes the Northern Provincial Council will be given the opportunity to address at least some of the pressing needs of those in the area.

Indian Navy today (Tuesday) arrested four Sri Lankans, including three members of a family, for reaching the country without proper documents and seized their fibre glass boat, the Press Trust of India reported.

They were arrested while getting off from the boat off Dhanushkodi coast.

The arrested have been identified as Nirmalan, his wife Nishandhini, their one-year-old son Dickson and boat operator Kandhasamy.

 “Sri Lanka is fully able to undertake the tasks set out by the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) and to guarantee the rights of its citizens”, Foreign Minister G. I. Peiris told Prensa Latina in an interview by Alberto Salazar, published by Prensa Latina December 26 this year.
The LLRC is a commission appointed by the Sinhalese Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa to look into any possible wrong doing that government forces are accused of having committed in the last months of the civil war betw

Sri Lanka will stand to benefit from a reformed EU GSP scheme from this month, the Ministry of Industry and Commerce said in a statement today.

The Ministry said that Sri Lanka has clinched the EU GSP trade benefit for from 1st January 2014.

The Minister of Industry and Commerce Rishad Bathiudeen said that Sri Lanka is listed in the “Low and Lower Middle Income GSP beneficiaries” category in the new scheme.

Army Commander Lieutenant General Daya Ratnayake today urged his troops to maintain the highest levels of discipline among all ranks, safeguarding the reputation of the organization at all times.

Speaking at the army headquarters today during the New Year celebrations, the Army Commander said that the dedication and commitment of the soldiers had already borne fruit and received praise from the President and the Secretary of Defence.

He said that a restructuring process is now underway in the organization following

The Officer In Charge (OIC) of the Wellampitiya police was arrested last night during a special operation conducted by the Colombo Crimes Division (CCD).

Police spokesman SSP Ajith Rohana said that the OIC was arrested over raids carried out by the CCD on suspects having illegal drugs and heroin in their possession.

The police spokesman said that investigations are now underway and further information will be revealed following the investigations.

The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) today handed over a complaint against the Chief of the Bribery Commission, Jagath De Silva Balapatabendi to the Bribery Commission, alleging that he received kickbacks after having sat on a Supreme Court bench, which released a consignment of vehicles.

JVP MP Sunil Handuneththi said the only authority that the public can complaint of corruption is now under allegations of corruption and that officials of the institutes appointed to investigate corruption should be clean.

The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) does not trust the Government.  Nothing wrong in that.  If all political entities trusted and agreed with one another there wouldn’t be separate political parties for too long, never mind the fact that politics would be quite boring.  Mistrust, however, is not a one way street.  Those who do not trust and harp on the fact all the time in order to play ‘No Show’ can but expect their political ‘others’ to distrust in return.  If ‘trust’ is a

The Jathika Hela Urumaya says that alternatives proposed to the Grade Five Scholarship examination are not practical. JHU Deputy Secretary, Udaya Gammanpila expressed these views at a media briefing convened in Colombo on Wednesday.

“We see the annulling of the Grade 5 Scholarship Examination as an attempt to make the bourgeois class which was collapsed in 1956 reign supreme again. The first amendment that we propose is that the Grade 5 Scholarship Examination be made an intelligence quotient examination. I believe that