By L. Fernando Iggy Pop and The Stooges Probably the funniest rider of all time, Iggy Pop and The Stooges’ rider aims to entertain and humour instead of scare and intimidate. The rider, which is written in a rambling conversational tone with a few internal monologues thrown in for good measure, is quite frankly a ...

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 ...

The nun attached to Mother Theresa’s Missionaries of Charity home in Rawatawatte was released by Colombo Additional Magistrate today and acquitted of all charges including allegations for sending children for adoption without proper approval.   Sister Mary Eliza was arrested following an anonymous call received to the National Child Protection Authority that illegal adoption of babies are ta...

By Ranee Mohamed At a press conference held at the Bishop’s House of Colombo yesterday, Archbishop of Colombo, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith proclaimed that he will not be attending any functions of the state or state institutions till the authorities clear the name of the Missionaries of Charity and stop the unfounded allegations and harassment. ‘I ...

(Srilankamirror) - Questioning the arrest of an Indian nun over a baby farm allegation, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith has decided to boycott all government functions in protest over the incident. The Colombo archbishop told the media that he has serious questions over the conduct of the National Child Protection Authority, police and the media regarding the charge against ‘Prem Nivasa’...

  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 ...

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 was concealed inside a ceiling at a building belong to the Arts Faculty of the complex. The Mirihana po...

Sumana Premachandra the wife of the slain former parliamentarian and presidential advisor Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra lodged a complaint with the Cinnamon Garden police regarding anonymous calls she has being receiving...

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 ...

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 ...

(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,...

The Koswatta Police  have arrested the father and a friend in connection with the kidnapping of the 15-year-old who was returning  to the Haldanduwana Catholic Church recently. The Police said the kidnappers who were arrested yesterday during the exchange for the boy turned out to be his parents. The Police  commenced investigations after Fr. Don Francis Laus had lodged a ...

Koswatta Police said it was still to make a breakthrough in the abduction of Manoj Priyankara,  a 15-year-old boy who went missing while returning to Hal-aduana Catholic Church after visiting his parents. The kidnappers had reportedly demanded a ransom of Rs. 500,000 from a priest of the church. Fr. Don Francis Laus had lodged a complaint at the Koswatta Police, stating that the 15-year-old w...

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 ...

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 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 ...