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By Indika Sri Aravinda The Carlton Sports Network (CSN), owned by the Mahinda Rajapaksa family, has sought the exclusive broadcasting rights of the 2012 London Olympics. Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC) has already paid for and obtained the exclusive rights for the broadcast and stands to lose financially if it gives the rights to another ...
- Olympics Only For SLRC (Category: Breaking News)
- SLRC To Take Legal Action Against MTV (Category: Breaking News)
- Olympic rights ‘will not be transferred’ (Category: Breaking News)
- Stay order on Olympic games telecast rights (Category: Breaking News)
By Tisaranee Gunasekara “Kill them out of the way… And let me hear their everlasting grunts and whines no more!” Shelley (Œdipus Tyrannus or Swellfoot the Tyrant) Abductions in the South continue unabated, even as the Resolution on Sri Lanka awaits a vote in Geneva. Can there be a more damning measure of Rajapaksa-addiction to ...
- Crime And Punishment, In Rajapaksa Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Criminal Governance (Category: Breaking News)
- SLMC to decide on support to govt. re NE merger (Category: Breaking News)
- Drug addicts rob wealthy homes in Mt. Lavinia (Category: Breaking News)
“…countries that won a war but ‘lost the peace’: gratuitously wasting the opportunities afforded them by their victory” Tony Judt (Reappraisals) By Tisaranee Gunasekara Creating incredible illusions to conceal insupportable realities is the Rajapaksa way. In this dystopian world, zero equals 8,000+; when prices go up, inflation comes down and people just love political deprivation ...
- Pro-Tiger elements in the Tamil diaspora are helping Rajapaksas stay in power (Category: Breaking News)
- The Darusman (UN) Report was inevitable due to colossal failure by the Rajapaksas (Category: Breaking News)
- Rajapaksas using Sinhala spremacism to win Southern consent for anti-democratic constitutional r... (Category: Breaking News)
- Rajapaksa treatment of Fonseka is like Prabhakaran tratment of Mahathaya (Category: Breaking News)
A Sri Lankan Government delegation has raised awareness in the UN Human Rights Commissioner about Darusman report and the prevailing situation in the country. The delegation now in Geneva led by Minister Prof. G. L. Peiris yesterday met with Human Rights Commissioner Navaneetham Pillay. They informed her about the prevailing situation in the country. Speaking ...
- Minister Basil briefs the OHCHR delegates (Category: Breaking News)
- UN team briefed on Sri Lanka's post-conflict progress on human rights (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka's measures to combat terrorism disregarded human rights, UN HR Commissioner says (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lankan delegation asks HR high commissioner to be impartial (Category: Breaking News)
Gandhi dressed to be accepted by the poorest person in India, advocating the use of homespun cloth (khadi). He and his followers adopted the practice of weaving their own cloth. President of the United States Barack Obama in an address to a Joint Session of the Parliament of India said that:”I am mindful that I ...
- NGOs Call on U.S. to Establish International Accountability Mechanism on Sri Lanka at UN Human R... (Category: Breaking News)
- Children of the 1977 Free Market Economy and their world without vision (Category: Breaking News)
- US Judge dismisses case against Rajapakse but warns no way a reflection on the merits (Category: Breaking News)
- US grants immunity to President Rajapakse in War Crimes case (Category: Breaking News)
By Lakshman Indranath Keerthisinghe Attorney-at-Law The Supreme One said : “I am made evident by my own power, and as often as there is a decline of virtue and an insurrection of vice and injustice in the world, I make myself evident and thus I appear from age to age for the preservation of the ...
- Vedda chief raises concerns about arresting Aragalaya activists (Category: Breaking News)
- Gem land in Sri Lanka's deep south auctioned for Rs. 270 million (Category: Breaking News)
- President opens renovated entrance to sacred city of Kataragama (Category: Breaking News)
- Final Randoli Perahera tonight (Category: Breaking News)
Further repression of media, civil society, minorities (New York) – The Sri Lankan government in the past year failed to advance justice and accountability for the victims of the country’s 26-year-long civil conflict, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2012. While Sri Lanka’s war-ravaged north and east became more open, the government deepened repression of basic f...
- Sri Lanka: No Progress on Justice – HRW report (Category: Breaking News)
- International Crisis Group statement on LLRC report (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka: No Progress on Justice (Category: Breaking News)
- Basic rights violated in Sri Lanka: Rights group (Category: Breaking News)
New York 23 January 2012:The Sri Lankan government in the past year failed to advance justice and accountability for the victims of the country’s 26-year-long civil conflict, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2012. While Sri Lanka’s war-ravaged north and east became more open, the government deepened repression of basic freedoms throughout ...
- Basic rights violated in Sri Lanka: Rights group (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka: No Progress on Justice, Human Rights Watch (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka: No Progress on Justice – HRW report (Category: Breaking News)
- Secretary-General Should Use Findings to Press for Justice - HRW (Category: Breaking News)
Professor R.O Thattil who introduced the z-score system to Sri Lanka has received death threats from anonymous callers, the Federation of University Teachers Association (FUTA) claimed today.
By Easwaran Rutnam The second biggest shareholder of Hunter & Co. Plc has accused the board of mismanaging funds and failing to show accounts for funds given by the shareholders for a project. Talib T. Al-Nakib, the second largest shareholder in Hunter & Co. Plc, the parent company of Lanka Canneries, Sri Lanka’s largest food ...
- Two new Directors on People’s Merchant Finance Board (Category: Business)
- Deal signed to build Colombo Port Expansion project’s South Container Terminal (Category: Business)
- Minority shareholders revolt against Watawala’s sale of marketing subsidiary (Category: Business)
- Hotel Developers responds to Cornel Perera’s rebuttal (Category: Business)
By Kusal Perera “Sometimes, all you have is nonsense to deal with and your anger, with which to do so”. - Anonymous “Happy New Year” said everyone to everyone else, after the year had faded off with bursting fire crackers last night. If all wishes made in good faith for a better New Year in ...
- Sri Lankan elections: A new dimension (Category: Business)
- Three parties de-registered (Category: Breaking News)
- Until The ‘South’ Learns What Democratic Rule Is… (Category: Breaking News)
- REGISTRATION OF THREE PARTIES SUSPENDED (Category: Breaking News)
KPMG Ford, Rhodes, Thornton & Co.’s Forensic Advisory practice recently announced the launch of a confidential hotline with the signing of its first client in Sri Lanka. The feature known as an Ethics Hotline promotes the concept of good corporate governance, transparency and ethical conduct which could benefit local companies, said Jagath Perera, Partner and ...
- Trump campaign shuts down prank-filled voter fraud hotline (Category: USA, New York)
- Trump campaign shuts down prank-filled voter fraud hotline (Category: USA, New York)
- Trump campaign shuts down prank-filled voter fraud hotline (Category: USA, New York)
- Trump campaign shuts down prank-filled voter fraud hotline (Category: USA, New York)
The Sri Lankan army ordered extra-judicial killings and assassinations during the final days of the country’s civil war, according to allegations made by a former member of the army. The source made the statements in an affidavit, obtained by The International as a part of an investigative report on the civil war, published today. The allegations ...
- Sri Lankan government ordered to commit war crimes says report (Category: Breaking News)
- What does the US know about alleged Sri Lankan war crimes? (Category: Breaking News)
- Rajapakse banks on Blake’s diplomatic speak in US war crimes case (Category: Breaking News)
- International Crisis Group statement on LLRC report (Category: Business)
At least five hand bombs and a tiny stock of explosives was unearthed from a building at the Sri Jayewardene University earlier today, police said. The said the find was made during a police search of the faculty, following an anonymous tip-off. The explosives that were packed into plastic pipes
By Imaad Majeed The government has taken extra measures to impose restrictions on the local media by blocking news websites alleged to have engaged in “character assassination” and “invasion of privacy”. Secretary for Ministry of Media and Information, W. B. Ganegala said, “the ministry will introduce a code of ethics and media guidelines.” Mudslinging and ...
- Court allows Media Ministry to continue news websites registration (Category: Business)
- Civil society outraged over moves to censor all websites carrying news on Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Supreme Court snubs FR petition on interference of access to websites (Category: Business)
- Media Ministry Monitoring More Websites (Category: Breaking News)
The Rajapaksa brothers, Basil and Gotabhaya, have both shown a keen sense of likened thinking with regard to the conduct of the war in Sri Lanka. In a leaked US embassy cable Basil Rajapaksa is quoted as having told members of the US Senate Foreign Relations that, ‘I’m not saying we’re clean; we could not ...
- US Raises Concerns About SL’s HR Record (Category: Breaking News)
- Do not put SL’s wellbeing in peril, Prof. Peiris asserts in Paris (Category: Business)
- SL not done enough says US (Category: Breaking News)
- Relevance of Non-alignment or ‘dynamic neutrality’ to SL’s foreign policy (Category: Breaking News)
(Lanka-e-News -06.Nov.2011, 2.30PM) The President of the panel of judges of the High court , justice Ms. Deepali Wjesundara in the white flag case had received anonymous letters threatening her with death,...
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has written an open letter to President Mahinda Rajapaksa urging him to take whatever measures are necessary to protect Frederica Jansz, the editor of The Sunday Leader, and to ensure that those responsible for last week’s death threats against her are arrested. The threatening letter Jansz received on 27 October was ...
- Letter From Frederica To Editors Guild (Category: Breaking News)
- Honouring Rajapaksa: An Open Letter To The UN Resident Coordinator (Category: Breaking News)
- Honouring Rajapaksa: An Open Letter To The UN Resident Coordinator (Category: Breaking News)
- Honouring Rajapaksa: An Open Letter To The UN Resident Coordinator (Category: Breaking News)
Foreign minister GL Peiris on Sunday condemned the "preposterous" UN-commissioned report alleging war crimes and revealing he stopped Canada raising it at a Commonwealth meeting, AFP reported Foreign Minister Gamini Peiris also confirmed Sri Lanka will host the next Commonwealth leaders' meeting in 2013, saying that none of the 54-nation bloc raised the prospect of moving it during t...
- British PM wants Sri Lanka to improve HR (Category: Breaking News)
- SL foreign minister slams 'biased' UN rights report (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka should be held accountable for war crimes - Baird (Category: Breaking News)
- UN must act says Canada (Category: Breaking News)
British Prime Minister David Cameron urged Sri Lanka on Sunday to make progress on human rights before it hosts the next Commonwealth leaders meeting in 2013 to prevent the likelihood of boycotts, AFP reported. Cameron said he pressed President Mahendra Rajapaske during this year's Commonwealth heads of government meeting in Australia to show that Colombo did not "have things to hide" fol...
- David Cameron tells Lanka to make progress on rights by 2013 (Category: Breaking News)
- Commonwealth sessions end with agreement on reforms (Category: Breaking News)
- Britain urges SL to make progress on rights by 2013 (Category: Breaking News)
- Britain urges Sri Lanka to make progress on rights by 2013 (Category: Breaking News)
Last week’s My View talked about six popular fallacies of currency or exchange rate appreciation which both the authorities and the public have tended to harbour in themselves. Of them, the following three were discussed in detail: Fallacy One: The government can fix the external value of a currency at any level it wishes. Fallacy ...
- Appreciating the exchange rate to create prosperity (Category: Business)
- External value of the rupee: Market driven or Central Bank driven? (Category: Business)
- Appreciating exchange rates: Not a boon always (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka swims against Asian currency depreciation tide (Category: Business)
Gives comprehensive address highlighting issues of developing countries Shoots down discriminatory practices by developed countries Outlines post-war development, reiterates stance against terrorism Backs Palestine, Cuba and Africa By Nisthar Cassim in New York In his much-anticipated address to the UN, President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday took a comprehensive local, regional and world view, with...
- CB releases full details on new laws to curb terrorism funding and money laundering (Category: Business)
- LTTE was engaged in the drug trade to finance itself – Kohona (Category: Business)
- Lankan envoy in US hosts National Press Club’s Intl. Correspondents (Category: Business)
By Dinali Goonewardene As stock markets the world over strongly slid downwards on fears of slowing economic growth, foreigners took their money out of the Colombo stock market yesterday, contributing to a seven-week low. Foreign sales were Rs. 70 million and net foreign outflows Rs. 21.8 million, albeit a relatively low component of total turnover. ...
- Blue Chips attract more foreign buying (Category: Business)
- Market moves up marginally (Category: Business)
- Asia Asset Finance soars on debut (Category: Business)
- Market rebounds as sentiment improves (Category: Business)
Daily FT speaks to a forensic auditor on how to keep a company cleanExecutive Director Forensic Services at KPMG India Gaganpreet Singh Puri has led a large number of investigations, fraud risk management and dispute resolution engagements, including loss of profit computations and quantifications of damages and claims. He has just returned from a two-year ...
- Pushing for knowledge on forensic accounting (Category: Business)
- New book exclaims: Dubious Deals – What a Paradox! (Category: Business)
- KPMG introduces Ethics Hotline for Sri Lankan corporates (Category: Business)
- Ministry of Finance appreciates COPE (Category: Breaking News)
Sept 01, Colombo: Sri Lanka Computer Emergency and Readiness Team (SLERT) chief engineer Rohana Palliyaguru says there is no information to indicate that an anonymous Sri Lankan group has hacked into the DNS servers of several large international and local organizations.
No complaints have been made regarding the hacking of the DNS servers of many international company websites by the Sri Lankan branch of Anonymous while no serious effects have yet to be felt following the breach, the Computer Emergency and Readiness Team (CERT) stated.
The Sri Lankan branch of Anonymous claims to have hacked into the DNS servers of Symantec, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, and several other large organizations over the past few days. .
Anonymous Sri Lanka says that it's breached the DNS servers of several major companies, including Symantec, Apple, Facebook, Skype, and Cisco.
Aug 01, Colombo: The A Singapore-based international arbitrator has dismissed a Citi Bank claim against Sri Lanka's state-owned Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) on the payment of soured hedging deal, Reuters report said citing anonymous sources .
The report of the UN Advisory Panel was finally released and the government moved into top gear to get the country behind the regime. The government informed the state media of a press conference on Thursday last week. The Ambassador for Russia in Sri Lanka was agreeable to grant an interview against the Ban panel ...
- US – India Alliance Puts Pressure On Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- The "Glass House gang of four" behind the Moon move to appoint A UN Panel on Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Mahinda’s Problems And Ranil’s Woes…. (Category: Breaking News)
- Mahinda Keeps Mum On General’s Sentence At Cabinet Meeting (Category: Breaking News)
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