Fashion Bug attack a communal act- Tissa

Condemning Thursday’s attack on clothing store in Pepiliyana by a violent mob, the UNP today said it’s dissatisfied with the manner in which the government acts regarding such incident.The intervention of security forces to resolve the situation had been delayed and that a lukewarm approach was evident in the legal steps which had followed, charged UNP General Secretary Tissa Attanayake.

Ninety Rolls Royce cars to be imported for CHOGM

UNP urges GL to resign: Charging that the Minister of External Affairs Professor G.L. Peiris was responsible for the current diplomatic crisis, the United National Party (UNP) today urged him to resign from his post immediately.UNP MP Harin Fernando told a news conference that Minister Peiris should step down as he had failed to perform his duties towards the nation. He blamed the Minister for failing to maintain the diplomatic ties with the closest neighbour India.

JSS President Dr. Jayalath Jayawardana petitions PUC against proposed electricity tariff increase

The Jathika Sevaka Sangamaya (JSS) yesterday petitioned the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) against accepting the Ceylon Electricity Board’s proposed electricity tariff hike, which the business community says was one of the highest in the world. JSS President Dr. Jayalath Jayawardana, MP, said, after handing over the petition to PUC head Jayatissa de Costa,

Defence Ministry funding attacks on religious minorities

The Defence Ministry was funding extremist groups responsible for harassing and attacking religious minorities, the UNP charged yesterday. Sri Lanka was going through a very tragic phase. Instead of uniting all communities with the end of a near thirty year old war, the Defence Ministry had provided Sinhala extremists with the required assistance including finances to create confusion and mayhem in the country,

You cannot safeguard the good name of the country by opening an airport - Ranil Wickremesinghe

Leader of the United National Party Ranil Wickremesinghe says that rather than implementing the LLRC Report and safeguarding the good name of the country what the government did was spend millions and open an airport.He expressed this view at an event held in Biyagama on Tuesday.''I told them to implement the recommendations of the LLRC Report. I said that then we will not have any problems. All of us made this request.

Stop joking and resolve differences with India - UNP

Minister Mervyn Silva’s offer to go to Tamil Nadu and stop attacks on Sri Lankans there was the biggest joke and not worth considering, the UNP said yesterday.UNP media spokesman Gayantha Karunathillake, MP told The Island that Sri Lanka was being humiliated in other counties including in Tamil Nadu as well as at the United Nations due to the Rajapaksa regime’s inability to

ERADICATION OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

The Lakvanitha Organization is working toward strengthening its membership targeting 100,000 new members for the year 2013. We invite all our women both local and foreign to enroll in our membership. All those women with special skills who can make a contribution in strengthening this movement as well as those who wish to come out of the closed door who have had no opportunities in the past to both give and learn are welcome.

Government likened to Somali pirates- UNP

The UNP yesterday likened the SLFP-led UPFA government to pirates operating off the coast of Somalia. The UNP alleged that the government was undermining the economy, the way Somali pirates were threatening shipping lines much to the discontent of the global community. UNP spokesman, Galle District MP Gayantha Karunatilleke yesterday told that the government had been mercilessly increasing the tax burden on those struggling to make ends meet,

Mattala International is a joke; oil is brought from bowsers from Katunayaka -Ravi Karunanayake

Opposition Party M.P. Ravi Karunanayaka explains that Mattala International Airport which was opened last week is but a joke. At a meeting held with the media some days ago he had made the following comments: "Katunayaka Airport now is in a state that requires a fivefold development process. It is good that when it is in such a state that Mattala Airport too has been added for the purpose of doing good to the public.

Grama Niladharis ordered to campaign for SLFP’s ‘Nil Rella’

The SLFP has directed Grama Niladharis to participate in its ‘Nil Rella’ membership drive which was to commence this week, the UNP charged yesterday. UNP Media Spokesman Gayantha Karunathillaka, MP, produced a letter, at a news conference in Colombo, which he said had been sent by the Bentara-Elpitiya SLFP Organiser Geetha Kumarasinghe to Grama Niladharis, in her electorate,

Shifting from Washington to Beijing consensus : have we got it right? - Eran Wickramaratne

The Sri Lankan economy grew at an average of about 5 per cent over the past two decades. However it achieved a GDP growth rate of over 8 per cent in 2010 and 2011 which has declined to 6.5 per cent by the third quarter in 2012. The post-war growth rates were achieved largely due to the integration of the North-East Economy, and the public investment programme of 6 per cent