When I was in Delhi last week, I was privileged to meet the Indian Minister of External Affairs who turned out, though he looks old and distinguished, to have been at Oxford while I was there – and to have succeeded Ravi Tennekoon as a Lecturer at Trinity College, before heading back to India to better things.

I still recall Ravi telling me that he was giving up the position at Trinity – which seemed to my undergraduate enthusiasms all one could hope for – to get back into real life. Salman Khurshid mea

The United Nations Human Settlements Program, UN-Habitat extends its continuous support to the housing development in Sri Lanka’s North and East, the Finance Ministry says.

UN-Habitat is extending its partnership with the European Union (EU), Government of Australia (AusAID) and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) to implement the second phase of the housing recovery project for conflict affected families.
Under the grants provided by the UN-HABITAT program in the first phase about 2,200 houses ha

Reports from Sri Lanka state that a Muslim Owned Textile store in the Central Province town of Gampola has been attacked in broad daylight on Tuesday April 16th 2013.

A gang of hoodlums numbering about a dozen launched an attack against the “Lucky Emporium”textile store situated on Ambagamuwa road in Gampola in the Kandy district in the afternoon of April 16th.

Details of the attack remain scanty at this point of time but apparently the glass panes of the shop as well as showcases had been shattered leav

A group of leading Buddhist monks met the Mahanayake Theras of the Malwatte and Asgiriya Chapters last week, to submit a proposal to abolish the Executive Presidency. The campaign for abolishing the executive presidential system has bounced back with this meeting. However, the fact is, this campaign is as old as the Executive Presidency itself.

A trained graduate teacher attached to St. Mary’s College, Matugama had filed a petition before the Human Rights Commission against the Head Quarters OIC Matugama alleging that she had being held unlawfully in remand custody for a period of time. She had requested compensation.

The complainant is Udawatte Kankanamge Dayani (51) and the respondent cited is OIC T. Ludowyke.

A US media report has claimed that Al-Qaeda factions are operating in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, and these groups then enter the U.S. for terrorist activities.

WND.com, an independent news network operating in Washington also reported, quoting sources as saying that Iran was behind the Boston bombings and pointed to the collaboration of the regime’s Quds Forces with Hezbollah and elements of Al-Qaeda with links to individuals in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.

Police launched an immediate investigation yesterday, following a complaint lodged by the Maharaja Television and Maharaja Broadcasting Corporation (MTV/MBC), regarding an imminent attack on their journalists.

"We received information that there is a group plotting to attack our journalists, in either Colombo or Ratmalana.

"Some of them were named, and were mentioned as being under constant surveillance, while others were cited as being under threat of actual physical violence," MTV News Chief, Chevan

Two Tamil men in Britain have been jailed for a brutal unprovoked attack on a man in Wembley who was targeted because he was Sinhalese, the Kilburn Times reported.

Angelo Lazarus, 30, of Northwick Road, and Sathulinga Sinneveham, 32, of Pasture Road, punched, kicked and beat their victim with a broken bottle on February 12 last year.

Harrow Crown Court heard the victim was approached by the pair in Wembley High Road and told he must apologise to them.

In a candid interview for the documentary We Feed the World, Nestlé Chairman Peter Brabeck makes the astonishing claim that water isn’t a human right. He attacks the idea that nature is good, and says it is a great achievement that humans are now able to resist nature’s dominance. He attacks organic agriculture and says genetic modification is better.

Nestlé is the world’s biggest bottler of water. Brabeck claims – correctly – that water is the most important raw material in the world

The Department of Fisheries notes that ten Sri Lankan fishermen continue to remain in the custody of Indian officials.

Assistant Director of the Fisheries Department Lal de Silva says that arrested Sri Lankan fishermen are currently in Andra Pradesh.

 

The group that set out from Trincomalee were arrested after straying into Indian waters while fishing.