Sri Lanka will welcome asylum seeker boats turned around by Australian authorities, the country's high commissioner to Australia says.

Admiral Thisara Samarasinghe was commenting on Opposition Leader Tony Abbott's pledge to reinstate the Howard-era policy of towing back asylum seeker vessels.

"Any Sri Lankan asylum boat being brought by the Australian navy to our waters we will welcome, and we'll take over them at appropriate locations," he told ABC television last night.

Electronic war in Korea – our workers are at risk

The Minister of Technology Research and Atomic Energy Patali Champika Ranawaka said that for the first time in the world there will be an electronic war in Korea and our workers in Korea are at risk. North Korea and South Korea will use electronic weapons and which will affect the Asia.

If this happens, the plan of Western countries will come true.  Under these circumstances, the risk to the lives of our Sri Lankan employees in Korea is increasing, he said

LLRC report cannot be put into the waste paper basket–Mano Ganeshan

Lessons Learnt and reconciliation commission report has to be implemented at any cost and it cannot be put into waste paper basket as added by Minister of foreign affairs G.L.Peiris is very incorrect was stressed by the democratic Janatha Party Leader Mano Ganeshan.

Frontline Socialist Party (FSP) member Udul Premaratne, who was at the forefront of the protest against the Meethotamulla garbage dump, yesterday strongly refuted allegations made by Colombo Mayor A.J.M. Muzammil that they were taking up the issue for ‘political gain’.

Speaking at a hastily arranged media briefing on Wednesday (10), Muzammil accused ‘outside forces’ of organizing protests in the area for political gain, and claimed many of those who led the protest at the garbage dump site last we

DOHA: A number of people injured in Wednesday’s deadly road accident near the traffic lights below Ras Abu Aboud flyover are still receiving treatment at the emergency unit of Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC).

Most of the injured, whose exact number could not be ascertained, are from Sri Lanka, Nepal and the Philippines, it is learnt.

HMC refused to divulge any details about those being treated for injuries resulting from the accident, which claimed two lives.

The Government is to reduce the number of Indian skilled workers in Sri Lanka and replace them with Sri Lankans, Labour Minister Gamini Lokuge said.�He said the new policy decision by the Government would include a reduction of Indian workers in existing projects and limitations on the number coming for future projects both in the public and private sectors.

The minister referred particularly to the Colombo Dockyard where some 800 Indian skilled workers were employed. The other sectors included the steel manufacturing

Mannar Bishop Rt. Rev. Rayappu Joseph and a group of Tamil MPs and civil society representatives have reportedly urged a group of visiting Indian Parliamentarians to press the Sri Lankan government towards establishing a self-governing mechanism for Tamils in the North and East.
Intelligence agencies in the North have uncovered that the request had been made by Rt. Rev. Joseph and a group of Tamil MPs led by Suresh Premachandran when they met the delegation of six Indian MPs who visited the country recently. The meeting had ta

The Sri Lankan Muslim community in the United Kingdom did not participate in a demonstration staged by a group of Muslims opposite the Sri Lankan High Commission in London last week.

The protesters warned of Jihad (holy war) if Buddhists and the Sri Lankan government continued "to oppress Muslims".

However, they said that if the Sri Lankan government wants peace, they will be happy to have a dialogue.

Sri Jayawardenapura University has signed a landmark MOU, with Sri Lanka’s foremost Digital and Social Media Agency Neo@Ogilvy to introduce digital marketing as a subject in their Marketing Management BSc Degree course.

In terms of this MOU the curriculum for the Digital Marketing will be formulated, designed and developed by Neo@Ogilvy. Its senior specialists in digital and social media, will also form the faculty. The course will also feature guest lecturers from Google, a news release connected with the signing said.

Additional police personnel are to be deployed at bus terminals and buses for the safety of those traveling long distances during the Sinhala and Tanil New Year, Police Spokesperson SP Buddika Siriwardena said.
Speaking to The Nation, Siriwardena said police personnel in uniform and civvies will be deployed in main bus stations in Colombo and suburbs to curb criminal activities.