People’s verdict will reign supreme
As support grew for the proposed 18th Amendment
to the Constitution, the Government yesterday reiterated that it is
the people who would decide whether the incumbent President is
re-elected for a third term. “The new Constitutional Amendments will
give the right to the executive incumbent to recontest.
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Majority support certain for Constitutional Amendments
Over 164 MPs including 10 from the UNP, will
support the Constitutional Amendments to be presented in Parliament
this week, informed sources said. Four UNP MPs namely Lakshman
Seneviratne, Earl Gunasekera, Manusha Nanayakkara and Abdul Cader
announced last week that they would support the Constitutional
Amendments.
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CEB gets tough on power pirates
The Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) has warned
electricity consumers against illegal power extraction since it will
not only lead to long-standing power supply terminations, but also
jail terms along with heavy fines.
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Raj Rajaratnam case - allowed to proceed
A Federal Judge in New Jersey last week allowed
to proceed a lawsuit accusing the Wall Street hedge fund billionaire
Raj Rajaratnam and his father of using a charitable front in the US
to funnel millions of dollars to the LTTE, the New Jersey Law
journal reported.
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Torture of maid: full investigation assured
Saudi authorities have assured a full
investigation into the allegations of torture on Sri Lankan maid
L.P. Ariyawathie who returned from Riyadh recently with over 23
nails embedded in her body, according to External Affairs Minister
Prof. G.L. Peiris.
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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. 
