Evicted Muslims will be resettled by May - President
President Mahinda Rajapaksa said all Muslim
civilians who were forcibly evicted from the North 20 years ago will
be resettled in their original places of residence with all
infrastructure facilities. President Rajapaksa was speaking at the
All Ceylon Muslim Congress Northern Convention - 2009 at Alankuda,
Kalpitiya yesterday.
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Joyful Christmas in Jaffna
For the first time in 30 years, the sounds and
lights of firecrackers dominated the skies of Jaffna, replacing the
deadly sounds of artillery shelling, rocket launchers, aerial
bombings and machine guns when the Christmas midnight mass was held
in the churches of Jaffna, informed sources said.
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Boost for tourism sector
Sri Lanka’s tourism sector is expected to grow
by leaps and bounds following the ending of the 30-year-old war that
severely affected the tourism industry. Director General of the Sri
Lanka Tourism Development Authority, S. Kalaiselvam told the Sunday
Observer.
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No room for rice shortage - Trade Minister
The Government yesterday assured that there is
no rice shortage in the market and that this is just an unsuccessful
move by certain traders to create an artificial rice shortage in the
market during the election period.
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Two international bodies to monitor poll
Two international bodies, the Commonwealth
Secretariat and the Association of Asian Election Monitors have
responded positively to Elections Commissioner Dayananda
Dissanayake’s invitation to observe the January 26 presidential
poll.
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The visiting foreign Minister of Seychelles Jean Paul Adams and Foreign Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris held bi-lateral discussions at the Foreign Ministry this evening.
Sri Lanka registered a superb 35 (five goals) points to 10 (one goal and one penalty) victory over Singapore in their Asian Five Nations Rugby Division 1 tournament match played at Rizal Memorial Stadium in Manila, Philippines today.
Two Thai women who were pretending pregnant mothers, were apprehended while attempting to smuggle 162 cocaine tablets. 
The Government decision to increase the import tax on motor vehicles was aimed at controlling the number of vehicles added annually to the vehicle fleet of the country as excessive number of vehicles have been imported to the country during the past three years, Acting Media Minister and Cabinet Spokesman Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena said today. “We had no other intention behind this move other than controlling the number of vehicles added annually to the road network”, the Minister said.
The Catholic Church today appealed to the President to halt any amendments leading to relax existing Abortion Law of the country, cautioning that such measures would aggravate the social issue and deprive children of their right to life. 
Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) reported Wednesday night that the new head of the government’s Socialist Left party (SV) has ousted veteran SV politician and former party leader Erik Solheim as the government minister in charge of both environmental and foreign aid issues.
The Department of Wildlife and Conservation (DWLC) has launched an investigation why the army shot two wild elephants in Bundala yesterday. According to environmentalists one jumbo was shot in the head and the other sustain similar gun shot injuries.
The Sri Lankan delegation, who left the country Wednesday to attend the 19th session of the United Nations Human Right Council in Geneva, Switzerland, says they have a well-organized plan to counteract the arguments against Sri Lanka.
Eight Indian fishermen from Keechankuppam fishing hamlet in Nagapattinam district sustained injuries in an alleged mid-sea attack by Lankan fishermen at midnight on Tuesday.
The UK still believes that a process led in Sri Lanka is better than one led internationally, said the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Alistair Burt, participating in a debate on the situation in Sri Lanka in the House of Commons yesterday (22).
In a new boost to Sri Lanka’s geo-textile industry and Sri Lanka’s standing as world’s largest exporter of coir fibre, a top US government agency has cleared the way for Sri Lankan made geo-textiles for two projects. 
