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Following Delhi High Court blast:
India heightens surveillance on LTTE
India has intensified intelligence gathering on
terrorist groups in India and the region including the LTTE
following the deadly blast outside the Delhi High Court on
Wednesday. The Indian Home Ministry had advised all States to watch
out for terror groups including the LTTE in the wake of the Delhi
blast which claimed 13 lives. In the wake of the blast outside the
Delhi High Court,
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Substandard petrol issue:
Vehicle owners given time till Sept 30
Vehicle owners who made claims over the
telephone will be given time till September 30 to submit written
claims, said Petroleum Industries Minister Susil Premajayantha. He
said that reimbursement for vehicle owners whose vehicles were
damaged due to the substandard petrol will be made next week. Over
1,800 claims have been received by the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation
(CPC) in this regard, the Minister said.
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UPFA victory at LG polls, a certainty
Sports Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage said
that the Government would definitely win all Municipal Councils
including the Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) at the forthcoming
Local Government polls due to the vast development carried out by
the Government in the cities and the utmost confidence reposed by
the people on President Mahinda Rajapaksa.
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Hambantota, a blueprint for other C’wealth nations - CGF
The five-member Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF)
Evaluation Commission that conducted inspections on the Hambantota
and Gold Coast for the 2018 Games has concluded that there are huge
benefits of bringing the Commonwealth Games to Sri Lanka.
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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. 
