News Archive (2007 - September)

(LeN- 2007 Sep. 29, 10.30 AM) Prima Company has decided to increase the price of wheat flour by Rs. 13 with immediate effect. Accordingly, the current price of a kilo of wheat flour has gone up to Rs. 66 from Rs. 53. The Director (Pricing) of the Consumer Affairs Authority said to 'Lanka-e-News'....

(LeN- 2007 Sep. 29, 10.30 AM) President Mahinda Rajapakse is not among the distinguished invitees for the ceremony held on coming Sunday (30) at Mount Lavonia Hotel to celebrate the wedding of Former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumarathunga's....

(LeN- 2007 Sep. 29, 10.30 AM) Army Spokesperson Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara says that the recruitment drive has enhanced after the Eastern Province was freed from the LTTE. At a press briefing held....

(LeN- 2007 Sep. 29, 10.30AM) The National Defense Spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella says that the LTTE is neither the sole representative nor the liberators of the Tamil people. Addressing a press briefing at the Media Center for National Security (MCNS) yesterday the Minister said....

(LeN -2007 Sep 28, 1.00pm) The need for an adequate victim and witness protection in Sri Lanka is a critical problem that has been repeatedly highlighted. In July 2007, the Law Commission of Sri Lanka forwarded their Draft Bill...

(LeN- 2007 Sep. 28, 9.45 AM) United National Party (UNP) General Secretary Thissa Aththanayaka says that UNP is committed to resolve the ethnic problem through a political solution amicable to all Sinhala, Tamil and Muslim communities and that safeguards the territorial integrity and the sovereignty of the country. Aththanayaka said that UNP leader Ranil Wickramasinghe stated at the Jayawardhana Centre that ethnic problem could be solved through rationalizing the Indo-Lanka accord and....

(LeN- 2007 Sep. 27, 9.45 AM) UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour is to arrive in Sri Lanka on October 10 to look into the human rights violations of Sri Lanka. Arbour in his endeavor to explore the facts of the recently disappeared persons will meet the relatives of the disappeared....

(LeN- 2007 Sep. 28, 9.45 AM) United National Party (UNP) accuses that Defense Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapakse needed to avoid questioning Kumaran Pathmanadan alias KP who was arrested by the Thailand police. UNP Media Unit Chief Lakshman Kiriella said....

(LeN- 2007 Sep 27, 10.20 AM) Dr. Ariyarathna Athugala, the Chairman of the Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC) has sent four trade union activists including one chairman of a union for submitting a letter against actions that damaged the rights and the professional respect of the producers. SLRC Producers' Union Chairman Kanchana Marasinghe, Organizer Herbert Kumara Alagiyawanna, Athula Peiris and Ravi Abewickrama are the four....

(LeN- 2007 Sep. 27, 10.20 AM) United National Party (UNP) has decided to move towards a new model of power devolution as a solution to the ethnic problem. UNP leadership has decided to shift entirely from the position of federal solution to the ethnic problem and to fully implement the powers....