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Crisis takes new turn:
Delaying tactics will hit UNP supporters - Thalatha
The United National Party (UNP) leadership is
acting in a manner which is damaging the credibility of millions of
UNP supporters all over the country by delaying the party reforms,
said Ratnapura district UNP parliamentarian Thalatha Athukorale.
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Guard your mouth, Dayasiri tells Sarath Fonseka
Kurunegala district UNP MP Dayasiri Jayasekera
said that DNA leader Sarath Fonseka was currently paying the price
for his unguarded sayings in the past. He told a media briefing last
week that there would be serious consequences if Fonseka did not
guard his mouth and stop castigating the UNP over the 18th
Amendment.
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Uncultivated paddy lands under the plough soon
The Government has decided to acquire
uncultivated paddy lands and make them available for prospective
cultivators. Agrarian Development Commissioner General Ravindra
Hevavitharana said that this decision was gazetted in January 2009.
Although the Government spent over Rs. 800 million to provide
irrigation facilities to uncultivated lands during the past two
years, the owners had not cultivated paddy.
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Canadian sleuths identify six LTTE captains
Canadian investigators have identified six LTTE
captains among the illegal immigrants who arrived on board the Ocean
Lady in October 2009 and MV Sun Sea last month. “Investigation
findings remain discreet as the government intends to arrest the
organisers of both these ships shortly,
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Sunday Observer in top slot in SRL Ratings
The Sunday Observer, Sri Lanka’s leading English
newspaper with the largest circulation, has again secured the top
slot in the latest SRL Ratings. In the latest SRL Ratings for July,
2010,
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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. 
