Photo courtesy of Asia News Twelve years ago today The Sunday Leader Editor, Lasantha Wickrematunge, was brutally murdered in broad daylight within a high security zone. His killers have never been punished....

“Will Destroy The Industry” Dilmah Boss By Dinouk Colombage Sri Lanka’s globally recognised tea industry has been hit by a major controversy with the industry divided over a proposal by the Tea Exporters Association to import cheap tea for blending with local tea. Merrill Fernando, former chairman of the Tea Council of Sri Lanka and ...

Apr 17, Colombo: The Sri Lanka Embassy in Moscow, Russia has published a Catalogue of Tourism in Sri Lanka in Russian language to promote Sri Lanka as a tourist destination in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries including Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan .

More Indian firms are eyeing to enter Sri Lanka to explore oil, says a media report. According to the report, India’s state run ONGC and IOC are making attempts to enter exploration activities in the Island. Minister of Petroleum Resources Development Susil Premjayantha has said that representatives of the two Indian firms have visited Sri Lanka to ...

Srilankamirror  - Four FEMEN activists have undressed at the Indian embassy in Kiev in protest against the country’s plan to block young Ukrainian, Russian and Kazakh women from entering India as part of a national anti-prostitution campaign. Reports states that the topless activists, partially clad in Indian clothes, used a ladder to climb the Indian embassy’s balcony and un...

By: Prasanna C. Rodrigo Sri Lanka says several countries including Russia, India, Ukraine and Vietnam have expressed their interest to enter oil exploration activities in the Gulf of Mannar basin. Saliya wickramasuriya, the Head of the country’s Petroleum Resources Development Secretariat

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By D.B.S.Jeyaraj The  tragic history of post-independence records that the Tamils of Sri Lanka have been subjected to mass-scale mob violence in the years 1956, 1958, 1977, 1981 and 1983. The anti-Tamil violence of July 1983 was the most terrible and horrible of them all. It remains etched in memory even after 27 years. Twenty ...

In Ukraine, President Mahinda Rajapaksa said “Problems can only be resolved through the will of the people instead of external intervention.” In earlier remarks, he had said “By defeating the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), one of the most ruthless terrorist organizations in the world by launching a humanitarian operation, we have set an ...

Sri Lankan and Ukrainian leaders hold bilateral talks to further solidify relations between the two countries. The two countries have signed three agreements. President Rajapaksa is visiting Ukraine at the invitation of his Ukrainian counterpart Victor Yanukovych. He arrived at the Kiev’s Boryspil International Airport last night. He was accorded a very warm welcome at ...