The newest slogan of the Sri Lanka Police…
We are following Balasuriya’s path
2011-06-28
Former IGP Dr. Mahinda Balasuriya has been appointed as Sri Lanka’s ambassador to Brazil, which is the quickest diplomatic appointment to be granted to a former IGP in the country’s history.
Under pressure to join the government
A special investigation against two TNA MPs on a Presidential directive
2011-06-28
Two investigations by the Customs Department and the Police Department have commenced on a Presidential directive against two TNA MPs to place pressure on the TNA to join the government.
An official government website slings mud at a group of artists
2011-06-28
An official government website has attacked a group of artistes who have asked for money to sing at a show organized to raise funds for the welfare of soldiers wounded in the war.
To get Basil involved in war crimes allegations
A media campaign launched on a Presidential directive
2011-06-28
President Mahinda Rajapaksa has ordered a head of the President’s Media Unit to get Minister Basil Rajapaksa involve din the debate over the alleged war crimes in the country and to launch a special media campaign for the purpose, sources from Temple Trees said.
Where are the soldiers who raped children in Haiti?
2011-06-28
Responding to increasing calls for an independent, international war crimes tribunal on Sri Lanka, the government continuously insists that it is capable of conducting its own impartial investigations.
Will not go against him
Wimal Weerawansa gives an assurance to Basil
2011-06-28
Minister Wimal Weerawansa has categorically told Minister Basil Rajapaksa that stories published in websites of remarks allegedly made by him against Basil are false.
According to Sri Lanka Medical Council Act
Presidential physician Dr. Eliyantha White could be jailed for two years
2011-06-28
In the event a case is filed before courts against Presidential physician Dr. Eliyantha White for practicing medicine without being registered as a doctor, he could be sentenced to a jail term not less than two years and a fine of Rs. 2,000, a senior official from the Attorney General’s Department told Lanka News Web.
Through Major General Udaya Perera’s report
Minister Basil Rajapaksa dragged into the war
2011-06-28
A report to be published by the government is to imply that Economic Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa was assigned the task of sending medical and food supplied to the North during the war and that he should be held responsible for any shortcoming in sending supplies to the North, a senior official from the Defence Ministry told Lanka News Web.
Auditor General reveals that People’s Bank had given Rs. 163 million to Triad without approval
2011-06-27
The Auditor General has prominently stated in the People’s Bank audit report released last May that the Bank had given Rs. 163,891,818 to the Triad Advertising Agencyw owned by Dilith Jayaweera and Varuni Amunugama without any board approval or any agreement.
Deputy Minister Faizer Mustapha gets Land Reclamation Corporation to fill his bank account
2011-06-27
Deputy Minister Faizer Mustapha has taken US$ 2 million as advance by giving a land belonging to the Land Reclamation and Development Corporation in Etul Kotte together with former Chairman of the Corporation Somaweera Chandrasiri to an Arab national, Lanka News Web learns.
Digambaram gets a bribe of Rs. 500 million from the government
2011-06-27
The government has given parliamentarian P. Digambaram Rs. 500 million to develop 50 roads in the Nuwara Eliya District. UNP parliamentarian Dr. Harsha de Silva has pointed out that the government had given Rs. 500 million to Digambaram when the opposition parliamentarians are yet to receive their allocations under the decentralized budget.
The government is preparing to allocate a land over 2,000 hectares near the Trincomalee Port to India. President Mahinda Rajapaksa has presented the Cabinet paper as the Minister for Port Development.
Thilanga asks Lakbima journalists to reveal Kudu Duminda’s rackets
2011-06-27
Parliamentarian Thilanga Sumathipala has asked the heads of the editorial board in the Lakbima newspapers to expose the rackets and dirty deals of supervising MP of the Defence Ministry Duminda Silva alias Kudu Duminda. Thilanga had issued this directive after the President had openly reprimanded him after keeping silent over all Duminda’s dirty deals.
A media campaign by an arms dealer
Against the Right to Information Bill
2011-06-26
An arms dealer has held a discussion with a journalist from the Divaina newspaper to commence a media campaign against the introduction of a Right to Information Bill, it is learnt.
An internal military inquiry to find those who had given footage to Channel 4
2011-06-26
A highly confidential internal inquiry has been launched by the Army to find out the Army personnel who had given footage that was shown in the controversial Channel 4 video.
President has advisors who mislead him – Minister Basil
2011-06-26
Economic Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa has said that Sri Lanka is under great pressure from the international community due to the advice received by several advisors to the President and that they continue to mislead him.
Defence Secretary’s son’s wedding on June 30
Security at Hilton Colombo to be taken over by the military
Two containers of roses from the Netherlands
2011-06-26
The wedding of Defence Secretary Nandasena Gotabhaya Rajapaksa's son is to take place at the Hilton Hotel on June 30. The military has already taken over the security at the hotel in order to ensure the safety of the VIPs who will be attending it.
