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| | 31 Mar (Island) The SLFP-led UPFA comfortably secured both Western and Southern Provincial Councils at Saturday’s elections, though the UNP won several electorates in the Colombo District, namely, Colombo North, Colombo Central, Borella, Colombo East and Colombo West. The UNP’s only gain outside Colombo was the Galle electorate, where it obtained 19,348 votes (39.62%) while the UPFA came a close second by obtaining 18,611 votes (38.11%). The UPFA won Galle electorate at the last SPC poll held.. |
 24 Mar (CI) Lasith Malinga versus David Miller. It was supposed to be the yorker versus the big hit. It was supposed to be the cracking finish. But the pressure resulted in miscommunication and again, South Africa ended up on the wrong side of a chase. With 15 runs needed off the final over and a finisher at the crease, the batting side is always in with a chance, even if that is narrowed by the presence of Malinga. South Africa, however, did not give themselves an opportunity to capitalise... |  24 Mar (SL) With the police hunt for K P Selvanayagam, alias Gopi, an LTTE cadre who shot a police officer, intensifying, the government has initiated an investigation into the LTTE international network. Hiding under the bed of Balendran Jeyakumari in Kilinochchi, Gopi opened fire at a police sub inspector investigating an arms cache including mortar and RPG type live ammunition, three hand grenades, a 2.5 kg claymore bomb and T-56 ammunition. Funded by the LTTE overseas network, Jeyakumari’s.. |
 24 Mar (ST) Sri Lanka’s tourism industry would be aiming at making available 40,000 more rooms within the next two years, a key official at Sri Lanka Tourism said. Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority Director General Dr. D.S. Jayaweera said this kind of room capacity was required and would be achieved within the next two years in a bid to provide sufficient capacity for the 2.5 million visitors in 2016. He was ddressing the launch of the Hotel Show 2014 media conference on Wednesday. He.. |  24 Mar (ST) Dilshan Tirimanna, a Sri Lankan-born engineer, recently received the Dutch Concrete Technology Award 2013/2014 and the Prestigious FIB Outstanding Concrete Structures of the World Award during the FIB congress held in Mumbai, India last month. Mr. Tirimanna, originally from Wattala, is the Managing Director and owner of the FDN Group based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.The company is famous for Ultra High Strength Concrete Technology, Floating Structures and harbour and.. |
 6 Mar (LBO) Sri Lanka's information technology and outsourcing firms could unlock value for their owners, draw capital and attract talent by a planned stock market listing, officials said. Colombo Stock Exchange Chief Executive Rajeeva Bandaranaike said listing which will lead to a value being placed on the shares when they are traded, unlocking the value of a company and generate wealth for the owners, in addition to raising fresh capital. "Shareholders can become wealthy, overnight,".. |  6 Mar (DN) The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillai’s report was rejected in its entirety, and the Resolution that called for it, was referred to as fundamentally flawed by the government of Sri Lanka yesterday. “These initiatives disregard the substantial progress made by the Government during the five years which have elapsed since the end of the thirty year war against terrorism”, Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris said delivering the National Statement at the High Level Segment of the.. |
| |  5 Mar (Island) The Brandix Group has committed up to US$ 1 million over three years on a new venture that is intended to fast-track ‘Sri Lanka’s evolution into a knowledge and innovation hub for the apparel, textile and fashion accessories sectors’. ‘The new venture ‘Disrupt Unlimited’ will run a seed accelerator that will inspire, mentor and fund start-ups with breakthrough solutions to disrupt products,practices, processes and business models in these sectors, a press release said. It adds:.. |
 5 Mar (Island) Responding to Mannar Bishop Rt. Rev. Rayappu Joseph’s call for an international war crimes probe, the Defence Ministry yesterday accused the priest of working closely with the LTTE pushing for external intervention in Sri Lanka. The ministry alleged that the clergyman was most probably working with the UK headquartered Global Tamil Forum (GTF) headed by Rev. Father, S. J. Emmanuel. Had the Mannar Bishop been genuinely concerned about the wellbeing of Tamil speaking people, he.. |  5 Mar (DM) South Africa today said that international community must allow Sri Lanka to find their own solution to their own problem. “It is important that we allow Sri Lankans to find each other, and out of this find solutions that are durable for their country,” South African Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Nkoana Mashabane said addressing the 25th session of the UN Human Rights in Geneva on Tuesday. Stating that the Human Rights Council has been seized with the issue of.. |
 5 Mar (DN) Almost 75 percent of the Wallapatta (Gyrinopus Waala) trees cut down by people with the intention of making a fast buck have no economic value because agrawood used in the preparation of cosmetics is only found in damaged tree trunks with dents, according to Dr. Upul Subasinghe of the Sri Jayewardenepura University, the Central Environment Authority (CEA) said in a release. The release said Dr. Subasinghe expressed this view at a meeting held at the CEA presided by its Director.. |  5 Mar (DN) The re-constructed railway line from Kilinochchi to Pallai was commissioned and declared open at a function at the Kilinochchi railway station yesterday. Transport Minister Kumara Welgama opened the Kilinochchi to Pallai train service with the departure of a Yal Devi train from Kilinochchi railway station at 9.30 a.m. It was a historic occasion as the train service recommenced on this section after a lapse of 23 years, a Sri Lanka Railways spokesman said. The reconstructed railway.. |
| |  26 Feb (CI) Lasith Malinga reasserted his skill for rattling chases in a tight finish, after Lahiru Thirimanne had proclaimed his relevance to the ODI format, as Sri Lanka sputtered to a thrilling win in the Asia Cup opener in Fatullah. Pakistan lost their top order cheaply, surged, collapsed, then surged briefly again, in search of 297, but the total that had been set up by Thirimanne's 102 was 12 too many, despite half-centuries from Misbah-ul-Haq and Umar Akmal. Malinga's 5 for 52 was his.. |
 26 Feb (Island) Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa yesterday said that the government wouldn’t demobilize the Army or reduce military presence in the Northern Province under any circumstances, though a section of the international community was pushing the government on the diplomatic front ahead of the 25th session of the Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). The war veteran was responding to Western calls for a smaller army in the wake of the LTTE’s battlefield defeat.. |  26 Feb (DN) The Sri Lankan government has rejected the call by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navanethem Pillay “to establish an international inquiry mechanism to further investigate the alleged violations of International Human Rights Law and International Humanitarian Law and monitor any domestic accountability process in Sri Lanka”, claiming “it gives scant or no regard to the domestic processes ongoing in Sri Lanka within the framework of the LLRC NPOA, and is politicised in.. |
 20 Feb (LBO) Sri Lanka's parliament has passed a law on pictorial health warnings on tobacco packs, after a British American Tobacco unit in the island went to court against an earlier health ministry regulation. The state information office said parliament unanimously passed the law requiring pictorial health warnings to cover 80 percent of cigarette packs Wednesday. Similar laws are in effect in several other countries. The office of the Surgeon General of the United States, which in 1964.. | |
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