Sri Lanka says Europe need to continue to worry as the LTTE is using the region as a preferred location for the concentration of assets, personnel and its activities following its defeat at the hands of the Sri Lankan security forces in May 2009.
This was highlighted by the Ambassador of Sri Lanka to Belgium, Luxembourg [...]
March 28, 2011 8:33 AM | Posted in
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Trading at the Colombo Stock Exchange ended on a negative note with both the All Share Price Index and the Milanka Price Index losing ground.
The ASPI dipped by 28.61 points or 0.40% while the MPI declined by 56.82 points or 0.85%.
Institutional & High net worth Investors were dominant throughout the day compared to Retail Investors.
Only [...]
March 21, 2011 6:03 PM | Posted in
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President Mahinda Rajapaksa and the First Lady Shiranthi Rajapaksa cast their votes at the Medamulana D. A. Rajapaksa Vidyalaya this morning.
Today Sri Lanka is holding local government elections in a vast majority of its local government bodies.
Polls in some of the LG bodies are not been held as it will hamper the ongoing Cricket World [...]
March 17, 2011 11:26 AM | Posted in
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The JVP is demanding Prime Minister D. M. Jayaratne to apologize from the public for misleading the Parliament and the masses by providing false information.
The Marxist party says the Prime Minister’s statement in Parliament made during this week, which said there are 3 LTTE training camps in India, has been proven wrong.
Issuing a release, the [...]
March 11, 2011 1:15 PM | Posted in
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President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s life story written in Tamil was launched on Monday.
The book authored by veteran Tamil Journalist S. Thillainathan is the first such book written in Tamil covering Rajapaksa’s life story.
Thillainathan told news360.lk “I have included details about his whole life from the birth right up to now”.
He said some of the unknown facts [...]
February 23, 2011 8:36 AM | Posted in
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President Mahinda Rajapaksa today held a meeting with the U.P.F.A. candidate’s who are contesting at the upcoming local government election.
The meeting took place at the President’s House in Kandy.
February 18, 2011 2:08 PM | Posted in
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The Network of Election Monitoring says it has received 146 complaints against the violation of election rules and regulations which has taken place in the ongoing campaign for the local government election.
Accordingly 40 of those complaints are against election violence’s such as attacks and threatening of persons, attacks on party offices and the use of [...]
February 18, 2011 8:37 AM | Posted in
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Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has resigned on the 18th day of anti-government protests, and handed over power to the military.
The historic announcement was made live on state TV by Vice-President Omar Suleiman at about 6 p.m. local time Friday.
“In these difficult circumstances that the country is passing through, President Hosni Mubarak has decided to leave [...]
February 11, 2011 10:29 PM | Posted in
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Central Bank Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal says the Government’s spending on defense, indicates its “restraint” and “thrift” adopted during its counter terrorism effort.
Cabraal says contrary to the popular belief, Sri Lanka has only expanded just about 4% of its GDP on defense during the period of 2006 to 2009, when the offensive against LTTE was [...]
January 28, 2011 12:07 PM | Posted in
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Businessman Dhammika Perera has been appointed as the Secretary to the Ministry of Transport.
The appointment was made by President Mahinda Rajapaksa during today.
Perera who once headed the Board of Investment is a key investor in the Colombo Stock Exchange.
He also has major stakes in several local companies.
January 12, 2011 10:32 PM | Posted in
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