International condemnation of journalist Bennett Rupasinghe’s arrest »
International rights organisations have called for the immediate release of an editor of a website critical of the Sri Lankan government. Bennett Rupasinghe, News Editor of LankaeNews was remanded by courts following his arrest by the Wellampitiya police on Monday. Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders(RSF) said that he should be released immediately. RSF research coordinator [...]
No elections in future to choose UNP office bearers — Ranil »
THURSDAY, 31 MARCH 2011 00:00 By Yohan Perera Opposition and UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe said yesterday that the party’s working committee had decided to not have internal elections for any posts in the party in future and that suitable people for the top posts would be selected through consensus. This decision had been taken despite [...]
New UNP local councillors pledge to declare assets »
* Abide by party discipline, work for people’s welfare March 30, 2011, 10:42 pm by Zacki Jabbar Candidates elected on the UNP ticket, at the March 17 local government elections, yesterday pledged to abide by party discipline, declare their assets and work to improve the living and economic conditions of the people. The 892 UNP [...]
එජාපයේ එක්මුතුකම ප්රතිගාමීන්ගේ පරාජයයි- බෙදීම් අමතකර එකමුතුව රට ගොඩගනිමු »
එජාපයේ එක්මුතුකම ප්රතිගාමීන්ගේ පරාජයයි බෙදීම් අමතකර එකමුතුව රට ගොඩගනිමු එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයේ නායකත්ව අර්බුදය විසඳෙන්නට තිබුණු හොඳම අයුරින් විසඳුණි. රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතා එජාප නායකත්වයට යළි පත්වුණු අතර සජිත් ප්රේමදාස සහ කරු ජයසූරිය යන මහත්වරු නියෝජ්ය නායකවරුන් වශයෙන් පත් වූහ. එක්සත් ජාතික පාක්ෂිකයන් අති බහුතරයක් අපේක්ෂා කළේ පක්ෂය නොබෙදෙන අයුරින් මේ අර්බුදය විසඳෙනු දකින්නටයි. පක්ෂ නායකයා [...]
The goal of ruling the country once again-Can’t criticize Ranil… »
Thursday, 24 March 2011 11:46 Stern action will be taken against any UNP members who criticizes the party leadership, the UNP announced today. UNP MP Mangala Samaraweera said that the decision was arrived at after yesterday’s UNP working committee meeting where Ranil Wickramasinghe was endorsed as the party leader. Samaraweera said that the party will [...]
Ranil- Leader and Sajith – New Deputy Leader »
Ending months of speculation, Hambanthota district UNP MP Sajith Premadasa today accepted the portfolio as the Deputy Leader of UNP at the working committee meeting, concluded this evening. Ranil Wickramasinghe was unanimously appointed as the leader of the party while Karu Jayasuriya was also appointed as the deputy leader, by the UNP working committee. Therefore, [...]
Cash-for-votes: Sushma slams Manmohan »
A united opposition on Wednesday mounted attack on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh over the cash-for- votes scam wondering as to how he could wash his hands of the matter as he had headed the government in 2008 and was the “biggest beneficiary” of the trust vote. Leader of the Opposition Sushma Swaraj made a stinging [...]
41-Year-Old Man Shot, Killed in Olney Walking Home From Work »
41-Year-Old Man Shot, Killed in Olney Walking Home From Work: MyFoxDC.com 41-Year-Old Man Shot, Killed in Olney Walking Home From Work Updated: Monday, 21 Mar 2011, 11:35 PM EDT By AUDREY BARNES/myfoxdc OLNEY, Md. – Montgomery County Police are searching for the person who shot and killed an Olney man as he walked home from [...]
Ranil likely to win secret ballot – Dayasiri »
By Kelum Bandara & Yohan Perera UNP seniors including those loyal to party leader Ranil Wickremesinghe and MP Sajith Premadasa stressed, at the party’s Working Committee meeting yesterday, that the leadership crisis should be sorted out through consensus involving all concerned, instead of leaving room for a rift in the party by calling for a [...]
ජන්ද ප්රඵිපල රජයට රතු එළියක්-එජාපයට ජන රැල්ලක සේයාවක් »
Dear readers, Now you can read “Lanka News Today” in Sinhala. “Lanka News Today” has now launched its Sinhala and you can read it by using “Sinhala Unicode” font. If you don’t have “Sinhala Unicode”, you can download it from this web link. http://www.siyabas.lk/sinhala_how_to_install.html If you already have the font, you can read our Sinhala [...]
