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...

Nugegoda (Srilankamirror) - editor of ‘The Sunday Leader’ Fredericka Jansz complained to Mirihana Police around 7.30 last night (Oct. 27) that she has been threatened with death. According to police spokesman SSP Ajith Rohana, the complainant says she has received an anonymous letter threatening her with death. She is the main witness in the ‘white flag’ case, of whic...

The Sunday Leader Editor Frederica Jansz  lodged a complaint with the Mirihana Police today that she has received an anonymous letter asking her to stop writing her articles and threatening her with bodily harm.   The letter which she had received on Thursday was also handed over to the Mirihana Police.   Members of the Special investigation unit of the Mirihana Police have been assigned to invest...

By Champa Fernando KACPAW (Kandy Association for Community Protection through Animal Welfare) These ownerless pups, now barely one month, were cut up by veterinarians who have taken the tender to sterilise dogs in the Central Province on  September 26, when the pups would have been barely three weeks old, having just opened their eyes. We ...

An anonymous caller who had called the UNP Secretary Tissa Attanayake had warned him to be cautious over an attempt of harming his life, said the Cinnamon Gardens Police to...

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 .

TNA Parliamentarian E. Saravanabhavan says he had received death threats through the phone yesterday (June 06) demanding that he leave the country within two days. The MP claims to have received the anonymous call at 9.25pm last night.

New Delhi, May 4 (PTI): An anonymous call threatening to kill Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and former Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee has prompted security agencies to conduct searches in the National Capital Region to identify the caller, sources said today. ....

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 ...

by Prof Michael Roberts Many Sri Lankan fans expected the cricket team to win the World Cup and even stocked up with firecrackers to mark the celebratory moment. The disappointment has been commensurate with this high expectation. It has generated...

The UK vs. Wijesinha By Vimukthi Yapa The British High Commission in Colombo last week told The Sunday Leader they had no idea what ‘note’ UPFA MP Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha was talking about when he told the BBC Sinhala Sandeshaya Service that the former defence attaché at the BHC had handed him a typed note ...

The BBC Sinhala Service, in asking for comments on the 2010 US Report on Human Rights in Sri  Lanka, gave me little notice, and suggested I could just glance through the synopsis with which the report began. As it happened, I was able to look through some of the rest, which was good, because I ...

by Amarnath Amarasingam The recent revelation that members of the federal and provincial Conservative Party have been getting into bed with former members of the World Tamil Movement (WTM), banned as a terrorist organization in Canada since 2008, was not...

by Anthony Reinhart Tories trying to win support from South Asians in Ontario have opened the door to remnants of a Tamil Tiger front group the federal Conservatives themselves banned in 2008. The unlikely association, forged behind a curtain of...

The Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (TRC) today cautioned people to not be deceived by welfare related hoax text messages sent by anonymous sources which claim that if the receiver forwards the...

18 Days That Shook The World How People Power Worked By Charles Levinson And Margaret Coker Hosni Mubarak was thrust by violence into the leadership of the Arab world’s most populous country, and has been forced out by a wave of popular protest. Stability had been the watchword of his presidency, with emergency law — ...

by IRIN News COLOMBO, 12 January 2011 (IRIN) - Ongoing storms have dumped more rain in one eastern district of Sri Lanka than witnessed in a century, according to the country's Disaster Management Centre (DMC). Nationwide, storms have hit some...

By Indi Samarajiva Mark Zuckerberg was recently named TIME magazine’s person of the year. This comes as no surprise to the over 500 million people who know him impersonally as the founding head of their online social network, Facebook. It does, however, disappoint supporters of WikiLeak’s Julian Assange, another strong contender. They both have something ...

On December 9th, the late Sujith Prasanna Perera was given the National Integrity Award by Transparency International. It is perhaps telling that our bearer of integrity is dead. Sujith Perera died for fighting fraud within the Customs Department. His murderers were convicted, but he could not be replaced. More tellingly, his attitude of taking risks ...

By Indi Samarajiva Behind every conspiracy, there’s a Private First Class, getting the coffee. There have always been leaks. WikiLeaks is just a digital bucket. The Leaks Bradley Manning had been busted down to Private First Class for assaulting an officer. It was the latest in a series of troubles for the 22 year old ...

by Tisaranee Gunasekara Basil Rajapaksa is unabashed in claiming that in Sri Lanka an era of ‘ruler kings’ has begun. Western ideas of transparency, he claims, along with limits of presidential power and accountability, are not relevant to ‘Asian Culture’.”...

(Lanka-e-News, 09.Nov.2010, 10.40PM) A senior DIG who wished to remain anonymous speaking to Lanka e news said , the IGP should shoulder the full blame for the stupid and blind raid conducted by the...

By Gazala Anver Construction on the illegal bungalow built by the Air Force Commander, Roshan Goonetilleke in Sudugalla, Knuckles, an environmentally protected area, is still continuing, alleges Programmes Manager, Sri Lanka Nature Forum, Sajeewa Chamikara. According to Chamikara, construction has been going on for over a month now. “Minister Faiser Mustapha went to see the ...

THAT the second testing of his urine sample might clear Manju Wanniarachchi of any wrongdoing and so restore his Commonwealth Games gold medal is pretty much a hope that rides on the wings of a prayer. The truth though is, hardly ever does the result of a second examination (for banned substance in the system ...

We are a group of concerned citizens including university academics who are writing this letter to express our concern over the incident reported in The Sunday Leader of September 19 and 26, 2010. According to these reports the Vice Chancellor of the University of Sri Jayewardenepura sent six female students in a university vehicle to ...

Two weeks ago, Dr Dayan Jayatilleka alleged that I had drafted a constitutional amendment in the 1970s in an abortive attempt to enable Mrs Bandaranaike to extend her term of office. Last week, in an article in which he transported...