Lt. General Jagath Jayasuriya has been ordered by the Colombo Chief Magistrate to produce Sarath Fonseka in court on the 12th of May. Fonseka, who skipped his court- martial in order to attend the parliamentary session yesterday is due to appear at today’s proceedings where he will be interrogated on illegal defence deal charges. (pic [...]
Mervyn Silva has resigned from his post as the Deputy Minister of Media. The Presidential Media Unit has confirmed that he has handed in his resignation and in turn has been offered the position of Deputy Minister of Highways. This has occurred just a few hours before a new Media Minister was to be [...]
Several University students have been injured in a clash between police outside the University Grants Commission at Ward Place. Making several demands, students from the Ruhunu, Peradeniya and Sri Jayawardenapura campuses were baton charged by police in an effort to subdue them. The chairman of the University Grants Commission was not available for comment and [...]
External Affairs Minister G.L Peiris has said that President Mahinda Rajapaksa is to pardon journalist J.S. Tissainayagam, who is currently out on bail after being convicted on August 31, 2009 under the Prevention of Terrorism Act. Tissainayagam was convicted on three counts including editing, printing and distributing the publication North Eastern Monthly magazine during the [...]
What A Fiasco By R. Wijewardene Sri Lanka’s Media Ministry now of course under new management has begun sending Declaration of Assets and Liabilities forms to every journalist in the country. According to a circular issued by the Ministry last month every journalist in the country from cub reporters at provincial newspapers to the chair persons [...]
The T20 World Cup is upon us. The Sri Lankan squad has yet to get settled into the conditions in the West Indies. Our lads have not had much experience in the Caribbean Islands. Even the seniors have hardly played in that neck of the woods. But we are talking of instant cricket and there [...]
Mahinda Chinthana Insufficient The lack of a clear Government policy for the development of the North-East (N.E.) is a disincentive for investments in that area, a banker said. Prem Kumar Thampi, Country Head, I.C.I.C.I. Bank, speaking at a seminar in Colombo on Tuesday as an example said that though the Government’s Mahinda Chinthana policy document [...]
Copying international patents may be a way to induce such patent holders to register themselves here, an official said. Sri Lanka’s Intellectual Property (I.P.) Office Director General Dr. D.M. Karunaratne speaking at a seminar on Monday said that if a foreign technology is not patented locally, it may be copied. Such copies don’t contravene local [...]
By Paneetha Ameresekere, Business Edtior Sri Lanka’s new Foreign (now known as External Affairs) Minister Professor G.L. Peiris is reported to have had told reporters on Sunday that the government is considering in doing away with emergency rule. If that is so, that is also good news for the economy. That’s because it will help [...]
Bribery denies implementation, counters trade Customs is ready for ecommerce, but not so the private sector, a Customs officer claimed. M.R. Rajmohan, Assistant Director Customs told The Sunday Leader that while there are 10,000 importers, only a 100 are ready to clear their Customs declaration forms electronically, hence the alleged reason for the delay in [...]
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