"Every country has the right to defend its territorial integrity and it has become difficult to secure such if incidents (terrorist acts) are not adequately addressed, to carry out business as usual and that includes the peace process", Indian Foreign ...

   Ramanan Mylvaganam (31), Canada's Waterloo University post graduate student who is charged with supplying computer related material to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a group proscribed in Canada as a terrorist group has been ordered to be ...

  Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Mrs Ioma Rajapaksa, President Seva Vanitha Branch, Ministry of Defence Wednesday (3) morning took time off to meet and share their thoughts with a section of injured War Heroes at Colombo Military Hospital. Both ...

Former Minister S.B. Dissanayaka today filed a rights petition challenging the purported decision of the Commissioner of Elections declaring that he is disqualified to be an elector at a Presidential or Parliamentary elections until December 7, 2011. 

       About 1,000 Asian men including Sri Lankans who were hired by a Kuwaiti subcontractor to the U.S. military have been confined for as long as three months in windowless warehouses near the Baghdad airport without money or ...

   Sri Lanka Parliament Speaker W.J.M Lokubndara stressed that it is his duty to protect the privileges of parliamentary staff as the Speaker. The Speaker made this special statement following a tense situation that took place in the Parliament this ...

 9 civilians who were held captive by LTTE in the non-liberated Wanni area fled from the terrorist outfit and sought protection with security forces at Omanthai, Vavuniya, today (Dec 3).  The civilians included 7 males and 2 females who had ...

  9th Battalion of UN peace keeping contingent for Haiti, is ready to embark for UN peace keeping operations on 16th December 2008. The trained battalion offered the guard of honour to Major General Jagath Jayasuriya USP psc, Security Force Commander ...

  Key urban centers in Sri Lanka's Northern and Northwestern Provinces are utilizing Asian Development Bank (ADB) funds to upgrade neglected and overstretched water and sanitation systems.  ADB is providing a 32-year loan of $59.78 million and a grant of $23.22 ...

    The  Sengunthar Engineering College plans  to conduct 35th State Volleyball Championship for Junior Boys and Girls at Sengunthar Engineering College, Tiruchegode, Namakkal District  form 4th to 7th December 2008. Under the auspices of Tamilnadu State Volleyball Association and Namakkal District ...

   . The Association for Rehabilitation of Spinal Cord Injuries (ARSCI) today announced the forthcoming launch of Sri Lanka’s first ever Rehabilitation Centre for Spinal Cord Injuries (SCI) situated adjacent to the Ragama Teaching Hospital. The ‘ARSCI Centre’ is donated by ...

    DELEGATION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION and THE COLOMBO FRIEND-IN-NEED SOCIETY  have jointly   launched Donate a Limb Campaign" today to assist local disabled community . A spokeswoman of the EU delegation here said this campaign was launched to mark the World Disability ...