Over Rs 90 mn robbed from security van
Security guards alert police to incident
A group of alert security guards helped police arrest four robbers within minutes of committing the biggest ever robbery in recent history on Tuesday night.
Posing as policemen manning a check point on the Kurunegala-Minuwangoda main...


Mahinda meets Gaddafi
President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who is currently in Egypt
to attend the Non-aligned Summit, met Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi
at Sharn Sheian city on Tuesday afternoon and both leaders had a lengthy
discussion.

JVP condemns recent
ministerial appointments
The JVP yesterday condemned the recent appointment of National Freedom
Front (NFF) parliamentarian and JVP dissident Piyasiri Wijenayake as
Cultural Affairs Minister on grounds that he was the first accused in a
murder case.






Ferrero-Waldner’s tool
With the IMF loan delayed without a reasonable
explanation, the government...