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Achieving Millennium Development Goals
Sri Lanka way ahead in South Asia -Indian HC
Sri Lanka is way ahead of India in achieving MDGs
(Millennium Development Goals) said Indian High Commissioner to Sri
Lanka, Ashok Kantha. He was addressing the 23rd annual sessions of
the OPA (Organisation of Professional Associations, Sri Lanka).
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Paddy cultivation in full swing after three
decades:
Jaffna brings 11,000 ha under the plough
For the first time in three decades 11,000
hectares of land came under the plough with the onset of the Maha
paddy cultivation season in Jaffna last week. “Hundreds of hectares
of paddy lands remained inaccessible to farmers for decades in the
North.
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CMC gets tough with unhygienic eateries
The Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) will come
down hard on over 700 eateries, cafeteria owners and small scale
hoteliers in the city and the suburbs, who do not provide proper
sanitary facilities for customers.
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Army to the fore in clean-up campaign
Army personnel from all field formations
deployed all over the country participated in a series of
community-oriented clean-up campaigns in the Kandy area to mark the
61st commemoration of Army Day on October 10.
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Germany relaxes travel advisory further
Germany will further relax its travel advisory
to Sri Lanka from this month following the improvement in the
security situation in the country. German Ambassador Jens Plotner
told the Sunday Observer that Germany has relaxed the travel
advisory after the war and it will be further relaxed from this
month.
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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. 
