Chief Government Whip and Highways Minister Johnston Fernando yesterday (4) said that the show being enacted in Geneva against Sri Lanka showed the duplicity of Western nations. Addressing the media after participating in a tree planting campaign at Padukka, the Minister said that several Western nations had taken upon themselves the task of protecting human […]
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A protest march from Pottuvil to Jaffna, with the participation of representatives of civil society organizations, regional politicians and religious leaders that commenced Wednesday in the Eastern province, ignoring a court order prohibiting protests is heading towards Jaffna. The protesters are marching against alleged large scale land grabs, state sponsored settlement programmes, failure to implement […]
By Rathindra Kuruwita
The mastermind of the Easter Sunday attacks was Naufer Moulavi, a mentor of NTJ leader Zahran Hashim, Minister of Public Security, Dr. Sarath Weerasekera said yesterday, when asked by a journalist whether there had been a foreign hand behind the attacks. Former Jamaat-e-Islami leader, Rasheed Hajjul Akbar too had played a main role, the Minister said.
The Minister said so at a press briefing in Colombo on the future of the report on the PCoI on the Easter carnage.
Weerasekera also said that there was no concrete evidence to prove that Pulasthini Rajendran alias Sarah Jasmine, the wife of Atchchi Muhammadu Muhammadu Hastun, who detonated a suicide bomb at St. Sebastian’s Church, Katuwapitiya on 21 April 2019, had escaped to India.
Kandy Mayor Kesara D. Senanayake garlanding the D.S. Senanayake statue at the Mahamaluwa. BY CYRIL WIMALASURENDRE KANDY – The 73rd Independence Day was celebrated in Kandy near the statue of the first Prime Minister D.S. Senanayake opposite the Sri Dalada Maligawa. The event was organised by the Kandy Municipal Council. Mayor Kesara D. Senanayake garlanded […]