Historical all-female Lankan cockpit crew on international flight »
Feb 21, 2010 Two woman pilots of SriLankan Airlines, the national carrier have made history recently by being the first all female cockpit crew to fly a Lankan aircraft on an international flight. According to SriLankan Pilots’ Guild an Air Force veteran, the historic flight was flown in November 2009 from Colombo to Trichy in [...]
President On General Sarath Fonseka’s arrest »
Feb 21, 2010 Mahinda Rajapaksa, in a recent conversation with N. Ram, the Editor-in-Chief of The Hindu lasting for three-and-a-half hours at Temple Trees in Colombo, said the following on the arrest of the retired General and possible consequences of a Fonseka victory : When I heard about all this earlier, when the intelligence agencies [...]
Dalai Lama gets an upbeat but quiet Obama welcome »
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama personally welcomed the Dalai Lama to the White House Thursday and lauded his goals for the Tibetan people, but he kept their get-together off-camera and low-key in an attempt to avoid inflaming tensions with China. At the risk of angering Beijing, Obama did tell the exiled spiritual leader that he [...]
Elephant throws SF off, JVP gets the Cup »
by Dasun Edirisinghe Following the collapse of its talks with the UNF to form a common Opposition alliance to contest the forthcoming parliamentary polls, the JVP yesterday said that it would go it alone under the leadership of General (retd) Sarath Fonseka. Sources said the JVP would field candidates on the Democratic National Alliance (DNA) [...]
Tamil leaders ‘must come and negotiate with me’ after parliamentary elections »
President Mahinda Rajapaksa is confident that the United People’s Freedom Alliance, led by his Sri Lanka Freedom Party, will win the forthcoming parliamentary elections “very comfortably.” Asked whether his realistic target was a two-thirds majority, he responded: “I think we will be able to get that, or at least close to that.” Was he willing [...]
‘Order police’ to release Prageeth »
Prageeth Eknaligoda Mr. Eknaligoda has suppported Gen Fonseka’s candidacy The wife of a disappeared journalist in Sri Lanka has sought judicial remedy to get her husband released. In a petition to the appeals court, Sandhya Eknaligaoda says her appeals to the authorities to find Prageeth Eknaligoda has receved no positive response. Although police were informed [...]
UK arrivals help Sri Lanka tourism boom »
By Saroj Pathirana BBC Sinhala service Sri Lanka has been a popular tourist destination before the conflcit intensified Sri Lankan tourism officials say they have seen a sharp increase in the number of visitors from the UK. Sri Lanka’s Tourism Development Authority says there has been a 25 percent rise in tourist arrivals from the [...]
Govt. ‘trying to destroy Buddhism’ »
Buddhist monks in Sri Lanka The monks were threatened ‘to be bombed’ if convened in Kandy on Thursday, UNP says The main opposition in Sri Lanka has accused the government of violating the constitution by trying to destroy the Theravada Buddhism in the island. Opposition leader Ranil Wickramasinghe said a certain section of Buddhist monks [...]
SRI LANKA::Opposition journalist released »
Chandana Sirimalwatta in front of Gangodawila magistrate court after the release (photo: Lanka Truth) Mr. Sirimalwatta, who says his arrest amounts to political vengeance, vowed to continue his journalism A court in Sri Lanka has ordered the police to release the editor of Irida Lanka newspaper, who was detained under emergency regulations. Gangodawila magistrate Anura [...]
