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SLFP begins islandwide reorganisation campaign:
Govt ready to face elections -President
The Government is ready to face elections as it
enjoys the fullest confidence of the people throughout the island,
President Mahinda Rajapaksa said yesterday. Addressing a series of
rallies held to mark the commencement of the re-organisation
campaign of the SLFP from the Anuradhapura District, President
Rajapaksa pointed out that it was the Opposition which was
apprehensive of facing elections at any level.
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Public support vital to control dengue mosquitoes
Health Minister Maithripala Sirisena said that
dengue mosquitoes cannot be controlled by appointing only a task
force or using chemicals. The support of social service
organisations, the public and schoolchildren are vital to destroy
dengue breeding grounds. Minister Sirisena will launch the `Dengue
Control Week’ tomorrow.
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No aircraft fuel without quality certificate
No fuel will be issued to aircraft without a
quality assurance certificate, said Petroleum Industries Minister
Susil Premajayantha. The laboratory tests conducted by the Ceylon
Petroleum Corporation (CPC) had revealed that 7,500 MT of the 20,000
MT received on April 27, 2012 were not up to standard.
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UNP ‘resurrects’ Tiger flag
Youth Affairs and Skills Development Minister
Dullas Alahapperuma said the Tiger flag which had fallen at the
Nandikadal lagoon on May 19, 2009 was again hoisted at the joint
TNA-UNP rally led by Opposition Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe in
Jaffna on May 1. It is very unfortunate that Wickremesinghe,
willingly or unwillingly acts to cater to the interests of the
pro-LTTE Tamil diaspora.
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LTTE’s US head sentenced to time served
The former head of the LTTE in the US who had
pleaded guilty to providing material support to the group, was
sentenced to the time served of five years on Friday. Karunakaran
Kandasamy, 55, was among the four persons who had pleaded guilty in
2009 to purchasing improvised explosive devices, missiles and
machine guns and raising millions of dollars for the Liberation
Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
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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. 
