By Uvindu Kurukulasuriya It is important for us to brief them about measures we have taken, and plans for the future,” President Mahinda Rajapaksa told the Cabinet at a meeting on Wednesday. As a daily English newspaper reported, President Mahinda Rajapaksa has stressed the need to send a delegation to the United States of America [...]
Why leopard meat consumption is on the rise By Raisa Wickrematunge On January 26, police burst into the Maeliya wildlife reservation to discover Palaniyandi Anandakumara, surrounded by 11 bags. Each bag contained a kilogram of leopard meat, police spokesman SP Ajith Rohana said. The coveted leopard skin was nearby. It was reported that Anandakumara had [...]
“He added that it ‘looked like’ EPDP cadres, along with the SLN, had perpetrated the mid-August burning of the pro-LTTE Uthayan newspaper office in Jaffna”, the US Embassy Colombo informed Washington. The Colombo Telegraph found the related leaked cable from the WikiLeaks database. The cable is classified as “CONFIDENTIAL” and recounts details of a meeting [...]
By Nirmala Kannangara in Payagala Pictures by Asoka Fernando In an astonishing twist, the families of the two dead in the Payagala road accident now claim that the nephew of Deputy Ports Minister Rohitha Abeygunawardena was not involved in the accident although they confirmed to The Sunday Leader a day earlier, that there are eye [...]
By Uvindu Kurukulasuriya The King is naked!” shouted the boy. An awkward hush fell across the crowd as excited murmurings ceased. Faces turned first to the youth sitting on his father’s shoulders and then to the Monarch. The child was triumphant. He had been the first to see, or at least to say, the remarkable [...]
The real reason behind the riots: a drug problem Prisoners on the rampage By Raisa Wickrematunge and Gazala Anver Pictures by Pavithra Jovan De Mello An innocuous looking silver cannister rolled out onto the middle of Baseline Road. Someone shouted “tear gas!” and the onlookers fled the scene. On the prison roof, STF guards were [...]
Sri Lanka has caught global attention with its culture of eye donation By Raisa Wickrematunge Karen Keil was seeing double. She had a condition known as keratoconus. This meant that her cornea was a conical instead of a round shape. The result was double vision. The twenty nine year old tried several different ways to [...]
By Nirmala Kannangara in Padukka Pictures by Asoka Fernando It will not be the first time a mother has murdered her child. Certainly not in this country. Nevertheless the sheer brutality of such an incident continues to shock us. In another chilling incident, a baby, Dinusha Wijesinghe, just five months and eleven days old was [...]
“Sri Lanka Cricket Will Achieve Greater Glory” – Upali Dharmadasa Upali Dharmadasa, the newly elected President of Sri Lanka Cricket, says that he has no doubt that Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) will achieve greater glories. Denying claims that he is guided by political interference, in an exclusive interview with The Sunday Leader’s Faraz Shauketaly, Dharmadasa [...]
Equivocation on criminality in the name of peace has made peace ever more remote By Uvindu Kurukulasuriya Any which way one looks at a Fonseka pardon, he is between the devil and the deep blue sea. Speculation is rife whether the former army commander Sarath Fonseka will be given a presidential pardon before the March [...]
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