Politics
Interview with Madam Tamara Gunanayagam, Ambassador of Sri Lanka to Cuba
This is an English translation of Ambassador Gunanayagam’s Interview to the Venezeula newspaper “Correo del Orinoco”)
China To Fish In Nanthikadal
A Chinese company has come forward to invest in a fisheries project in the Nanthikadal lagoon, where the last phase of battle between the military and the LTTE took place in May last year, "Daily Mirror" has reported. Fisheries Minister Dr. Rajitha Senaratne has said this company was planning to breed ‘Seabass’ which is a delicacy in China. ...Namal’s luxury train service assigned to the Airport and Aviation Services Authority
The Railway Department has handed over the management and maintenance of the luxury train service launched from Katunayake to Colombo on June 1st to the Airport and Aviation Services Authority. The train service was launched by parliamentarian Namal Rajapaksa to provide transport to Indian stars and guests who arrived in Sri Lanka to participate in the IIFA awards from the airport to Colombo. ...Moragahakanda project goes under with Rs. 40.5 million
Government sources say that the Moragahakanda and Kalu Ganga projects will have to be stopped midway due to the lack of funds in the government. ...SL is now a China's colony – Dayasiri Jayasekera
UNP M P for Kurunegala Dayasiri Jayasekera , said , by China controlling most of the infra structure development and facilities in SL, the latter is fast becoming a colony of China. ...Indians who enter the country on tourist visas take back the harvest from Northern lands – Wimal Weerawansa
Housing, Construction, Engineering Services and Common Amenities Minister and NFF Leader, Wimal Weerawansa told the media on the 9th that Indians who arrive in Sri Lanka on tourist visas cultivate lands in the North and later return to India with the harvest....Namal sells the marine university
Sri Lanka’s marine university is to be privatized with the intervention of parliamentarian Namal Rajapaksa. The university has been taken away from the Fisheries Ministry and has been placed under the Youth Affairs Ministry. ...People did not demand for constitution amendments - Tissa Attanayake
Untied National Party’s General Secretary Tissa Attanayake said, people did not request for constitutional amendments and amendments are done for the political gains of the government....Sajith tells Reforms Committee he would move out from the battle for UNP leadership
Parliamentarian Sajith Premadasa has told members of the Reforms Committee that he accepted the organization structure presented by the committee and the he did not want to fight for the party leadership at this juncture, sources from Opposition Leader’s Office at Cambridge Place said. ...President in secret discussions with opposition MPs to get two-thirds to pass the constitutional amendments
The President, it is reliably learnt, has initiated secret discussions with several opposition parliamentarians to receive the required two-thirds majority in parliament to pass the constitutional amendment to remove the two term barrier on the Executive Presidency. ...What's new
- Epic participates at SMIDEX in Malaysia
- Government contracts Chinese firm to destroy bodies buried in Nandikadal lagoon
- Big B will attend IIFA Awards in Lanka: Official
- No Indian Should Go To Sri Lanka For IIFA Festival – Mani Ratnam
- DHL launches new direct LCL service from Sri Lanka to Canada
- Sri Lankan doctoral student at AIT (Thailand) receives Asia-Pacific Entrepreneur Award
- Student loans from Seylan Bank facilitate greater options for higher education
- Canadian Tamils hail Big B
- President reprimands Basil’s close confidante Willie Gamage
- KP helps arrange talks between LTTE leaders, govt
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