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Thursday, June  11,  2009
      Editorial:A dove speaks
Mangala threatened
with corruption probe

*No action to be taken against Moragoda on SLIC sale

The government yesterday warned dissident SLFP MP Mangala Samaraweera, MP, that his involvement in several high profile transactions during his tenure as a minister in the CBK administration would be probed.

Power Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage yesterday said that the CID had launched an inquiry. Joining Media Minister Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena at an Information Department press briefing, Aluthgamage...

LTTE resurfaces at Thoppigala

Civilians had come across a group of young men in military fatigues in the Thoppigala jungles liberated by the armed forces in 2007. Their appearance, though caused fear in the East of a resurrection of the vanquished Tigers, was later revealed to be that of a group of soldiers picked by veteran film maker Bennet Ratnayake for his latest production ‘Ira Handa Yata’ (Pic Nishan S. Priyantha)


LTTE sympathizing Canadian MP detained at KIA
Sri Lankan authorities Tuesday night detained Canadian MP Bob Rae at the Katunayake International Airport over his alleged support to the LTTE, authoritative sources told The Island.

Section-by-section drafting of ‘final APRC document’ – Prof. Vitarana
The All Party Representatives Committee (APRC), convened to work out a political solution to the ethnic conflict is in the process of drafting the ‘final document’ of its deliberations, section-by-section, having reached...

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