News Source: Asian Tribune
| about 2 hours ago
Selvaraj Kajendran, the TNA Member of Parliament, who was on an extended honeymoon with his newly wed wife has landed in Colombo on the 28 November, after an absence of two long years...Kajendran who was on a continuous leave for the last two years
News Source: Hindustan times
| 6 days ago
The Legatum 2009 survey on wealth and well-being says Sri Lankans value their families and turn to them in troubled times. The example of family kinship is possibly coming from the top. Nobody knows the importance of family more than President
News Source: Asian Tribune
| 8 days ago
Fully facilitated war heroes’ village; "Rana Jayaviru Housing Village" at Ipalogama in Anuradhapura was handed over to war heroes yesterday (November 22) by the President Mahinda Rajapaksa. The newly constructed war heroes’ village comprised of
News Source: Aantara.co.id
| 18 days ago
Sri Lanka`s top general, who engineered the defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam after a 25-year war, has resigned, sources said on Thursday, amid speculation he will run for president as an opposition candidate. General Sarath Fonseka is
News Source: The New York Times
| 18 days ago
The general, Sarath Fonseka, was moved to a largely ceremonial post soon after the army defeated the insurgency in a grim battle that devastated the rebel group’s entire command. Opposition political parties have rallied behind General Fonseka as
News Source: Daily News & Analysis
| 18 days ago
If Fonseka enters the race, he is expected to weaken Rajapaksa's core voter base and erode the incumbent's present monopoly on claiming political capital from the war victory. "I gave my retirement papers," General Sarath Fonseka told reporters. "I
News Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
| 18 days ago
ET The Associated Press Sri Lanka's top general, who led the battle to crush the Tamil Tiger rebels and ended the island's 30-year civil war, has resigned, an official said Thursday...Sarath Fonseka's resignation comes amid growing media reports
News Source: India Abroad
| 18 days ago
Fonseka's likely entry in the fray would pose a serious challenge to the re-election of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who was hoping for a cakewalk after the rebel Tamil Tigers were wiped out by the army in May. The 58-year-old Army General submitted