Colombo is beefing up security ahead of the delivery of the verdict in the controversial white flag case against former
army commander General Sarath Fonseka. While there are reports that to avoid the immediate heat, a key witness against Fonseka has temporarily fled the country in fear to Singapore on a Cathay Pacific Flight bound for […]

2011- Nov. 05: The Ministry of Mass Media and Information has been receiving many complaints from various individuals who
have been subjected to defamation and character assassination by certain reports published in several websites. These websites in question are continuing to publish defamatory and damaging reports aiming at selected individuals. Some of the reports directly violate the […]

AFP:Sri Lanka yesterday warned websites to register with the authorities after the United States expressed deep concern over Colombo’s blocking of a popular Internet-based dissident publication.
The Ministry of Mass Media and Information said many reports posted on dissident websites amounted to character assassination of President Mahinda Rajapakse, his ministers and top officials.
“This ministry believes that […]

Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapakse was snubbed by New Zealand, when he tried to include the Rugby World Cup Finals in Auckland as part of
an official trip. Sources in New Zealand told Lanka Standard Prime Minister John Key had refused to meet President Mahinda Rajapakse. Failing to secure any meetings with the World cup host […]

A United States delegation including 03 Congressmen accompanied by Sri Lankan Ambassador to U.S and Mexico Jaliya Wickramasuriya met
Secretary Defence Mr. Gotabaya Rajapksa this evening (Oct 18).
The delegation led by Congressman Hon. Albert Benjamin Chandler, III, is currently on a three day visit to the island under the Sri Lanka- U.S Parliamentary Exchange Programme.
The delegates […]

WASHINGTON DC, 13 OCTOBER 1431hrs: The United States District Court a little while ago granted
Plaintiffs  Manoharan et al their motion to serve summons on Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapakse by publication or alternative means. President Rajapakse is being accused of war crimes.
In granting Plaintiff’s motion filed October 1,  judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said the Plaintiffs were […]

In January 2010 the New York Times designated Sri Lanka the number one tourist destination in the world – a position to which Sri Lanka laid claim after it crushed the Tamil Tiger Terrorists in May 2009 and declared its 27 year old civil war finally over. Tourism is key to the Island’s economy and […]

NEW YORK: After months of speculation and pressure by rights groups the UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon sent his Panel ofExperts Report on Sri Lanka’s last days of the war to the Human Rights Council today (Monday September 12).
The UN Panel Report states there is credible evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity […]

July 15, 2011 (AFP) India on Friday urged Sri Lanka to examine claims made in a British documentary that said it targeted civilians while crushing Tamil Tiger rebels two years ago. The Channel 4 documentary, “Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields” aired last month on British television contained footage of what it said were prisoner executions.
It also […]