The Sri Lankan Terrorist Investigation Department is questioning Junior Vikatan journalist, Tamil Prabhakaran, on charges of violating visa regulations and taking pictures of army camps in the North Lankan district of Kilinochchi.

The Kilinochchi police took the scribe, TNA MP Sritharan, and a Northern Provincial Councillor, Pasupathi Pillai, to a police station and questioned them.

The people and the government are working together to achieve meaningful reconciliation and to help the country succeed, Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to the US Jaliya Wickramasuriya said.

In a statement by the Sri Lankan Embassy in the US, Wickramasuriya said that peace in Sri Lanka is one of the most important blessings that all Sri Lankans should be grateful of during the Christmas season.

“Once again this year, we can all celebrate that Sri Lanka is a peaceful and safe place to everyone”, he said.

MP Palitha Thevarapperuma who commenced a fast opposite the Baduraliya Hospital on Wednesday says that the Deputy Leader of the United National Party had made a phone call to him regarding this incident.

Palitha Thevarapperuma said, “Chairman of the Leadership Council of the UNP , Karu Jayasuriya called me over the phone. He asked me what was the problem. I told him that it is a hunger strike. Then he wished. I asked him , whether he was wishing for my death.

The Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) yesterday said that the Baduraliya hospital had been closed as the people in the area had threatened the staff with bodily harm.

GMOA General Committee member, Dr. Navin de Soysa said that a 75-year-old man was brought to the Baduraliya hospital with a complaint of abdominal pain a few days ago. But, as his condition was rather serious, he was transferred to the Kalutara Nagoda hospital. However, the patient had died there of cardiac arrest about 12 hours after admissio

One-time commandant of the elite Special Task Force (STF), Senior DIG Nimal Lewke, yesterday told The Island that the Northern Province achieving the highest success rate of 63.3 percent, at the GCE Advance Level examination 2013, was proof of peaceful environment in the war-torn region.

Those who had been alleging that the intimidating military presence, four years after the conclusion of the conflict, was causing anxiety among the community were proved wrong, the veteran anti-insurgency specialist said. The Tamil polit

Justice Minister Rauff Hakeem recently revealed that the government had to conduct DNA tests to identify those who perished in the LTTE suicide attack, on a navy transit point, at Digampotha, Habarana in Oct 2006.

SLMC leader Hakeem said that the identity of the victims, from those remains, had to be established through DNA testing to enable the navy to identify the next of kin.

The minister was addressing a workshop held in Colombo to coincide with the opening of a laboratory equipped to undertake DNA testing at th

The Sri Lanka Women’s NGO Forum (SLWNGOF) has called for the resignation of Women’s Affairs and Child Development Minister Tissa Karaliyadde for making sexist comments against women in the country.
The forum has noted that the minister had made extremely sexist remarks humiliating Sri Lankan women without any sense of respect for the Cabinet or the office he holds.
“Minister Karaliyadde is clearly unaware that the oath of office he has taken as a Cabinet minister requires him to respect and follow the norms an

 The Sri Lankan government Thursday has vehemently rejected a claim by the major Tamil party, Tamil National Alliance, that the census conducted by the government on human and material losses due to the war will attempt to play down the number of casualties.

The Department of Census and Statistics dismissing the TNA's claim said the census conducted by the Department was done according to international standards and norms with every aspect of loss being addressed.

The TNA claimed that the circumstances of i

The Securities and Exchange Commission of Sri Lanka (SEC) as the regulator of the capital market has recently conducted a seminar for the officials of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to enhance their knowledge on the capital market and its developments.
It covered operations of the capital market, securities law and market irregularities with emphasis on money laundering.
The seminar was conducted by Dhammika Perera, Officer-in-Charge/Deputy Dire-ctor General of the SEC. SEC said a seminar of this calibre is consider

KANDY – Several hundred undergraduates of the Peradeniya University joined a demonstration organised by the students’ council yesterday, to protest against the pruning of Allied Health Sciences faculty degree period by one year.

Demonstrators carrying placards and posters demanded that the degree should remain a five-year course in keeping with the original arrangement.