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To facilitate development activities:
Amendments to Constitution in House soon
Amendments to the Constitution will be presented
in Parliament early next month, according to Water Supply and
Drainage Minister and Chief Government Whip Dinesh Gunawardena. He
said that the proposed amendments would remove the limitations on
the terms of the executive presidency.
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Supporting Govt, the need of the hour -SLMC
The Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) unanimously
decided at its high command meeting to support the proposed
Constitutional amendments considering the changing concepts of
national unity and communal amity under the administration of
President Mahinda Rajapaksa, party Chairman Basheer Segu Dawood MP
told the Sunday Observer.
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Navy probes major human smuggling racket
Sri Lanka Navy intelligence operatives along
with the police are conducting further investigations to bust a
major human smuggling racket after they found that the five men
arrested in the Marawila area in mid-August were involved in a part
of a major racket which had been going on for many years.
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LTTE’s main agent in arms network, a serious threat - Expert
International counter terrorism expert Shanaka
Jayasekara said that Ponniah Anandarajah, the main agent of the
LTTE’s arms network in the post-KP period, still poses a serious
threat to Sri Lanka’s efforts in countering the LTTE’s international
links.
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Postal system to be revamped
The entire postal system in the country will get
a facelift under a networking system to be introduced by the Posts
and Telecommunication Ministry to modernise post offices.
Six-hundred-and-forty-seven main post offices and 3,500 sub post
offices will be linked through the networking system to provide a
more efficient service to customers under the program,
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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. 
