Bribes to Basil, Namal key to get investment projects: Colombo businessman claims
2011-02-07
Business and political circles are abuzz after a Colombo businessman nearly came to blows with an associate at a popular hotel in the city, with a foreign business delegation including Kuwaiti nationals in full attendance after alleging that foreign investors have to oil the palms of Minister Basil Rajapaksa and MP Namal Rajapaksa before any investment projects can be approved.
Celebrating Freedom: A Personal Account Harsha de Silva, Ph.D
2011-02-07
I am generally not the street-protesting type. I try to articulate my arguments with facts and figures, be it writing, speaking or engaging in debate. But the other day, I was in a demonstration and this is an account of what happened; the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
IHR vehemently condemns arrest of convener of the IUSF Sanjeewa Bandara
2011-02-07
Intellectuals for Human Rights (IHR) vehemently condemns the arrest of convener
of the Inter University Students’ Federation Sanjeewa Bandara and the Students
Council Chairman of the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Ruhuna by Thihagoda
Police.
Sajith meets Tiran and Anoma with a message from Gotabhaya
2011-02-07
Sajith Premadasa who is hopeful of becoming the leader of the UNP has met with parliamentarian Tiran Alles and Anoma Fonseka with a message from Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa.
“Dawn of a new era-An end to strife”
Sajith launches his election campaign
2011-02-07
UNP MP Sajith Premadasa who is hopeful of taking over the party leadership has launched a separate election campaign under the theme, “Dawn of a new era-An end to strife.”
Fifty five persons who attacked the UNP protest receive a weekend trip by Duminda Silva
2011-02-07
The parliamentarian supervising the Defence Ministry, Duminda Silva has on the 6th sent 55 persons who had participated in the attack against the UNP protest, “Cry for Freedom” on the 4th, on a one day fun trip out of Colombo.
BoI Chairman moves out of Hayleys after Dhammika purchases Hayleys shares
2011-02-07
Chairman of the Board of Investments in Sri Lanka, Jayampathi Bandaranayake has resigned from the Hayleys board of directors saying he had too many commitments to attend to.
Sri Lanka has banned people from hanging their washing out to dry near a cricket ground in Colombo where World Cup games will be played, a news report said Sunday.
David Cameron tells Muslim Britain: stop tolerating extremists PM says those who don't hold 'British' values will be shunned by government
2011-02-07
David Cameron will today signal a sea-change in the government fight against home-grown terrorism, saying the state must confront, and not consort with, the non-violent Muslim groups that are ambiguous about British values such as equality between sexes, democracy and integration.
To belong in Britain is to believe in these values, he will say. Claiming the previous government had been the victim of fear and muddled thinking by backing a state-sponsored form of multiculturalism, the prime minister will state that his government "will no longer fund or share platforms with organisations that, while non-violent, are certainly in some cases part of the problem".
“We were not involved in the Borella attack” - group of ministers tell Karu
2011-02-07
UNP Deputy Leader Karu Jayasuriya says that several government ministers had called and informed him that they were not involved in the attack carried out on the UNP protest organized on the 4th calling for Sarath Fonseka's release and that it was not the work of the SLFP.
The Sri Lanka Cricket officials have come to know of the indisciplined actions of a ministerial son who was a member in the Sri Lankan team that took part in the under 19 cricket tournament between Sri Lanka and England.
President asked to appoint a family member as Prime Minister by the Rajapaksas
2011-02-07
President Mahinda Rajapaksa is under pressure by the Rajapaksas family to appoint a family member as the Prime Minister, a senior minister told Lanka News Web. Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa has not given a positive response to the President's proposal to appoint Gotabhaya to parliament through the National List and to appoint him as the Prime Minister.
Small & Medium Scale Industrialists File Court Cases Challenging 1720% Increase of Ground Rent by the Government
2011-02-06
In 1969 the Industrial Development Board (IDB) was established by the Government with the intention of assisting and promoting Sri Lankan Industries. As per Section 15 of the Industrial Development Act No 36 of 1979 the objectives of establishing the said Industrial Development Board was “to assist in the encouragement, promotion and development of industries in Sri Lanka and to foster the export of local industrial products to overseas markets”. Late Philip Goonawardena, highly respected left politician who joined the UNP Government in 1965 was the Cabinet Minister of Industries at the time this legislation was passed by the Parliament.
Deputy Resettlement Minister Vinayagamurthy Muralitharan says that about 16,000 displaced persons still remained at the Menik Farm welfare camp and that 6,000 persons from them are yet to receive permission fro free movement in and out of the camp.
IGP provides security to the Gajaba soldiers who set fire to the LankaEnews
2011-02-06
IGP Dr. Mahinda Balasuriya with the help of SSP Deshabandu Tennekoon, who is in-charge of the Nugegoda division, had provided the necessary facilities to the soldiers from the Gajaba Regiment who have carried out the attack on the LankaEnews office, a senior officer from the Police Headquarters told Lanka News Web.
IFL depositors swindled using the Defence Secretary's powers
2011-02-06
The CID has received 70 complaints that the management of Industrial Finance Limited is avoiding paying the interest payment and other incentives to its depositors claiming the company had close ties with Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa.
PSD officers among those who have attacked the UNP protest
2011-02-06
Among those who had attacked the UNP protestrch oooorganized the 4th in Borella calling for Sarath Fonseka's release were 32 members from the Presidential Security Division (PSD), a police offofficerom the Borella police said.
UNP MP Sajith Premadasa, who is hopeful of taking over the party leadership, attended the urgent press conference convened at the Opposition Leader's official residence on the 4th night after the attack on the UNP protest in Borella, but remained silent without making any comment.
