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TN Coastal Security Group on alert after thwarting fertiliser smuggling bid to SL
Chennai: Tamil Nadu Coastal Security Group and Coastal police are on high alert after 360 kg of fertilisers were seized from two people who were trying to smuggle it to Sri Lanka…
- India
TN fishermen block roads, demand release of 24 fishers detained by SL Navy
Chennai: A couple of days after the Sri Lankan Navy detained 24 Indian fishers, the mechanised boat fishermen of Jagadapattinam coastal village in Tamil Nadu’s Pudukkottai district on Wednesday staged a protest…
- World
Sri Lanka plans to end power cuts next year
Colombo: Sri Lanka’s Power and Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekera on Saturday said that he will take all possible measures to ensure uninterrupted power supply by January next year. Sri Lanka has been…
- World
Sri Lanka mulls repealing controversial anti-terror law
Colombo: The Sri Lankan government is drafting a new counter-terrorism law to replace the controversial Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA), Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe said on Sunday. The PTA was introduced as…
- Business
Keen to solve Tamil community problems in Sri Lanka by next year: President Wickremesinghe
Colombo: Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Saturday said that he is keen to solve all issues, including land and housing, pertaining to the Tamil minority community in the country’s Northern Province…
- World
Sri Lanka to conduct elephant census in 2023
Colombo: Sri Lanka’s Wildlife and Forest Resources Conservation Ministry has decided to conduct a new countrywide census on the elephant population in 2023, Parliament’s media unit said in a statement on Friday.…
- World
Sri Lanka probes ‘auction of women’ as sex workers in Oman
Colombo: Following an alleged incident where a group of Sri Lankan women who were taken to Oman promising jobs but auctioned off as sex workers, a Minister on Friday said that a…
- Chennai
Lanka tramples Indian fishermen’s rights, a challenge to nation: Stalin to Centre
Chennai: The Sri Lankan Navy continued to infringe on Indian fishermen’s traditional fishing rights, which appeared to be challenging the nation, Chief Minister M K Stalin told the Centre on Thursday, seeking…
- Sports
Sri Lanka batter Danushka Gunathilaka granted bail in alleged sexual assault case
Sydney: Sri Lanka batter Danushka Gunathilaka has been granted bail while awaiting trial on charges of sexual intercourse without consent and the Lanka batter is banned from using his social media accounts,…
- Chennai
Nalini, four other convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi case walk out from TN prisons
Chennai: Nalini Sriharan, her husband and three other convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case were released from Tamil Nadu prisons on Saturday evening. Immediately after she was released from the special…
- World
India shouldn’t feel threatened by presence of any superpower in Indian Ocean: SL Prez
Colombo: Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe reiterated that whatever superpower enters the Indian Ocean, there should not be any threat to India. Wickremesinghe said that Sri Lanka would not be a party…
- Sports
Gunathilaka repeatedly choked victim during alleged sexual assault
Sydney: Sri Lanka cricketer Danushka Gunathilaka’s victim was choked repeatedly and was “fearing for her life” during his alleged sexual assault, according to media reports that quoted police documents. The woman alleged…
- World
SL President Ranil Wickremesinghe opposed to outside intervention
Colombo: President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Thursday said Sri Lanka does not need outside intervention in its internal affairs, as he invited the country’s Tamil minority parties to hold talks next week to…
- World
Sri Lanka’s Danushka Gunathilaka suspended from all forms of cricket
Colombo: Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) executive committee on Monday suspended 31-year-old left-hand batter Danushka Gunathilaka from all forms of cricket with immediate effect following his arrest in Sydney on Sunday morning for…
- Sports
T20 WC: SL batter Gunathilaka arrested on rape charges in Sydney
Sydney: In a shocking turn of events, Sri Lanka batter Danushka Gunathilaka was arrested in Sydney over alleged charges of rape on Sunday morning. As per reports, the arrest was made from…
