News Archive (2009 - August)

(Lanka-e-News, August 31, 2009, 7.15PM) Over 10,000 refugees held in the IDP camps in Vavuniya have disappeared . The Vavuniya District Secretary has forwarded a report to the DIG north in this regard...

(Lanka-e-News, August 31, 2009, 7.15 PM) The decision taken by the former President Ranasinghe Premadasa in 1983 to waive the housing loans taken under the National Housing...

(Lanka-e-News 31.Aug.2009 2.00PM) A Sri Lankan court sentenced a journalist who wrote articles critical of a military offensive against the Tamil Tigers to 20 years' hard labor under...

(Lanka-e-News, August 31, 2009, 1.40pm) The most prominent Tamil parliamentary group in Sri Lanka says the party is prepared to help President Mahinda Rajapaksa to resolve the national issue. R Sambanthan, the leader of...

(Lanka-e-News 30.Aug.5.30PM) Who is the Minister who appointed a local without a visa in Korea after six months illicit stay and was to be deported by the Korean Immigration and emigration Dept., as a welfare officer in the SL Embassy?..

(Lanka-e-News 30.Aug.5.30PM) In its latest report, the Asian development Bank has come down heavily on the Govt.’s ‘poverty and human development in SL’ program....

(Lanka-e-News 30.Aug.2009 11.30AM) As Sri Lanka continues to pay huge amounts in interest due to having to borrow money for its development work, the chief culprit in the massive VAT scam Kamil Kuthubdeen and his consort, Hamza, are living it up in Dubai,...

(Lanka-e-News 30.Aug.2009 11.20AM) The Government has taken steps to construct an administrative complex for Government institutions.It will house a large number of Government organizations that will come under the Hambantota harbour....

(Lanka-e-News 29.Aug.2009 6.30PM) Independent correspondent and Journalist Prageeth Ekneligoda was abducted on 27th August by a group which accosted him having arrived in a white Van. He was forcibly bundled...