Users of CDMA and mobile phones in the Jaffna peninsula have been asked to obtain a police clearance certificate for the use of the phones from this month, an official said yesterday. For the past two months, CDMA phones have been barred while the use...

s Sri Lankan cricket about to fall into another cash abyss very soon? Taj TV whose long term deal that ran from 2004 to 2011 was cancelled by the Sports Minister recently pointing out flaws in its 2006 addendum are not willing to take it lying low....

The Tourist Board has pumped in over Rs. 25 million into a musical extravaganza on the southern beaches of Hikkaduwa to attract foreign guests but instead the five-day event has drawn in thousands of locals eager to get out of Colombo in view of the...

Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama told Parliament Tuesday that the government was not bound to the unilateral cease-fire declared by the LTTE. He was responding to a question by MP Wimal Weerawansa whether the Norwegians were arriving in Colombo to...

Vaiko wants Indian PM to boycott SAARC summit Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh must boycott the August SAARC summit in Colombo and the Indian government must stop providing military assistance to Sri Lanka, General Secretary, MDMK, insisted in a...

* IS IT AS IT WAS IN 1987 * TO APPEASE TAMILNADU Sources said that the visit of the high level Indian delegation to Sri Lanka was not for reasons of SAARC and security as previously reported, but due to rapid developments in the Sri Lankan...

The Special Bureau of the CID arrested six LTTE suspects, including a bomb expert and an ex-employee attached to the Colombo office of a popular Tamil MP who regularly espouses the cause of human rights violations, disappearances and abductions in Sri...

President Mahinda Rajapaksa has vowed to work closely with Opposition Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe in sorting out the country’s burning issues. The President made this vow after a religious delegation that met him at his official residence in Fort...

Was such a demonstration necessary? There are hundreds of Tamils being held without inquiry or trial for months under the public security laws of the country. If this has been deemed necessary in the interests of the security in the country, Bhikkus...

June 28 (Bloomberg) — Sri Lankan forces captured a rebel town in the northeast of the island nation that served as a logistics center for the Sea Tigers, the naval wing of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the army said. Troops seized...