Mahinda Rajapaksa

Special unit for Sri Lanka`s disabled persons soon

Special unit for Sri Lanka`s disabled persons soon Sunday, 16 November 2008 - 12:56 PM SL Time A special unit for disabled persons will be opened at the Ministry of Manpower and Labour Relations at its Employment Division at...

Changing Times

By Tisaranee Gunasekara Crises are times of change; the greater the crisis the profounder the change can be, either for good or ill. The Great Depression gave birth to the New Deal in the US and brought Hitler to power in...

Second reading of Budget 2009 passed in Sri Lanka parliament

Second reading of Budget 2009 passed in Sri Lanka parliament Saturday, November 15, 2008, 15:40 GMT, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. Nov 15, Colombo: The second reading of the 2009 budget passed today in the parliament with a...

DMK warns UPA on Sri Lankan Tamil issue, again

Chennai: Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and Dravida Munnettra Kazhagam (DMK) supremo M Karunanidhi has renewed the pullout threat from the United Progressive Alliance Government over the military offensive in the northern Sri Lanka....

Red Cross in charge of Indian aid to Sri Lankan Tamils

COLOMBO: India has approached the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) for delivery of humanitarian aid to civilians caught in areas that are still under the LTTE’s control in Wanni, said the ICRC on Friday. The Indian ...

Ruhunu Expo ’08 Shines at Hambantota

By T.K.Premadasa - Deputy Director / Marketing, Sri Lanka Export Development Board Prof G.L.Peiris, Hon. Minister of Export Development and International Trade has announced at the Press Conference held in Colombo on 28th...

BIMSTEC summit concludes; Prachanda calls for int'l investment in Nepal's hydro-power sector

New Delhi, Nov 14 (ANI): The second summit of Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Scientific, Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) concluded here on Thursday with the member states recognising a range of areas...

Karunanidhi again demands Indian intervention in Sri Lanka

New Delhi News.Net Friday 14th November, 2008 (IANS) Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi Friday insisted on a political road map to end Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict, saying India needed to take pro-active measures to end...

Secretary of Sri Lanka's former rebel leader shot dead

COLOMBO, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) -- The private secretary to Sri Lanka' s former rebel leader Sivanesaturai Chandrakanthan (Pilayan) who is now the chief minister of the troubled Eastern Province was shot dead on Friday, defense...

Secretary of Sri Lanka's former rebel leader shot dead

The private secretary to Sri Lanka' s former rebel leader Sivanesaturai Chandrakanthan (Pilayan) who is now the chief minister of the troubled Eastern Province was shot dead on Friday, defense officials said. Kumarasamy...