
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





Diplomacy
as a continuation of war
Last Thursday’s Supreme Court judgment annulling
the privatization of the Insurance