Information has come to light, of a death of a woman, who was reported missing in Jordan.

The deceased has been identified as a twenty-four-year-old resident of Kekirawa.
 
The deceased had travelled to Jordan in 2007 through private foreign employment agency.

Her mother, speaking to Newsfirst, said that her daughter was reported missing for six years.

We contacted the Sri Lanka Foreign Employment Bureau in this regard.

General Manager Mangala Randeniya said that a special inv

CR (Bulla) De Silva, former Royal rugby captain, attorney general and loyal friend of President Rajapakse, must indeed be a puzzled man, even as a whole host of senior officials from the Attorney General’s department, which he headed in the not too distant past, take wing to Geneva, to play defense, where the US is sponsoring a resolution in the UNHRC, regarding Sri Lanka and its post war reconciliation track record.

CR De Silva, chaired and together mostly with other distinguished former Sri Lankan State officia

belonging to the fishermen community at Nallavadu near here, who attempted immolation in front of the Cuddalore Collectorate on Monday afternoon and suffered over 70 per cent burns, died in the Kilpauk Medical College Hospital in Chennai at night.

Earlier, he had been taken to the Cuddalore headquarters government hospital for first aid and then referred to the Chennai hospital.

It is learnt that he was earlier acting as the Cuddalore union coordinator of the Naam Tamilar Katchi and later, became content with the

Free trade zone trade unions warned of dire consequences for apparel sector workers if the government continues deviating investor attention to other sectors.

Speaking at a recent forum on investment development and workers rights, the Free Trade Zones and General Services Employees Union (FTZGSEU) said the sector is picking up fast after being stagnant during the past years.

A study on garment sector wage trends presented at the discussion revealed that, though the industry was stagnant from 2006- 2010, it boos

Death threats on Health Minister and United People Freedom Alliance (UPFA) General Secretary, Maithripala Sirisena, clearly shows that there are conflicts among government factions, the main opposition alleged today.

Addressing media, the United National Party (UNP) today urged the government to express their stance regarding the death threats received by Minister Maithripala Sirisena.


Referring to a statement made by Minister Sirisena who claimed that he received death threats, UNP Media Spokesman Gayanth

Notwithstanding the London High Court blocking the deportation of a group of Tamils to Sri Lanka, the United Kingdom Border Agency (UKBA) was last week optimistic of continuing with the move through recourse to the judicial appeals process.

"The court ruling does not represent a blanket ban on returnees to Sri Lanka," a UKBA spokesman said. "We will be filing an appeal".

The asylum seekers were due to be sent back to Colombo last Thursday aboard a charter flight, together with some other

Almost four years since the end of the war, the situation in Sri Lanka is far from a just peace. With the commencing of the 22nd United Human Rights Council Sessions in Geneva this week, Sri Lanka has indeed much to be worried about.

March 22, 2012, saw the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) finally having to give way to international pressure as the UNHRC passed a US-led resolution titled “Promoting Accountability and Reconciliation in Sri Lanka”.1 This resolution, which was passed with a majority of 24 votes, highl

Congress MPs from Tamil Nadu today told Rahul Gandhi that India should take a tough stand against Sri Lanka at the upcoming UN meet on Tamils issue as it was crucial for the party’s future in the state, Outlook India reported.

Party sources said that the MPs including Union Ministers P Chidamabaram, G K Vasan and Jayanthi Natarajan and PCC Chief B S Gnanadesikan wanted India to support the resolution at the UN Human Rights Commission on the Sri Lankan Tamil’s issue and found the party Vice-President “very s

Cluster schools, Navodya schools, super schools are personal projects of those in the government and the thousand schools project too would be another ruined project in two years time says the co-convener of the National Movement for Protecting Free Education () Ven. Dhambara Amila Thera.

This was said by Ven. Amila Thera at a scholarly forum regarding protecting free education held at the Center for Society and Religion at Maradana today (3rd). University lecturers, trade union leaders, representatives of students’ or

The Government Medical Officers’ Forum (GMOF) yesterday accused Health Secretary Dr. Nihal Jayathilaka of paving the way for the GMOA’s NHSL branch union to take trade union action on February 1.

The GMOA’s NHSL branch launched a strike last Friday crippling the National Hospital till 8.00 a.m. on Saturday. However, emergency services were maintained.

The GMOF said that the main reason for the strike was Health Secretary Dr. Nihal Jayathilaka’s order to NHSL Director Dr. Anil Jasingha to r