ISSN: 1391 - 0531
Sunday, November 19, 2006
Vol. 41 - No 25
 
TIMES ONLINE
Front Page
News
Editorial
Columns
Sports
Plus
Financial Times
International
 
MAGAZINES
Mirror
TV Times
Funday Times
 
MONTHLY MAGAZS
Kandy Times
ST - 1
MediScene Updated
 
SERVICES
Archive
News feeds
Weather
Advertisements
Contact us
 
GROUP PAPERS
Daily Mirror
Lankadeepa
Hi !!
Wijeya Pariganaka
News 

Rock row: Lanka seeks proof from UN
pdfedition ad

Human Rights and Disaster Management Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe will this week ask the United Nations to furnish the Government with substantial evidence to corroborate charges that sections of the Government troops are helping the Karuna group in recruiting child soldiers to battle the LTTE.

 
Mahinda dashing: Lanka protests to Oslo
The Government has lodged a strong protest with Norway over its reported inability to deal firmly with a visa applicant who had stormed the Sri Lanka Embassy in Oslo, removed a portrait of President Mahinda Rajapaksa that was on the wall and dashed it on the ground.
 
Slow follow-up action on Scotland Yard help

Despite the initial urgency in soliciting the assistance of Britain's Scotland Yard to probe the Raviraj assassination, help is not forthcoming yet because of Colombo's delay in sending the terms and conditions required by the Metropolitan Police, it is reliably understood.

 
Collision at bend kills 11, injures 15
Eleven people were killed and at least 15 injured in a collision between a private bus and two vans at Gokarella in Kurunegala last evening, police said. The private bus was heading to Colombo from Anuradhapura when it collided with the two vans plying to Dambulla and Polonnaruwa.
 
UNP ‘Reformists’ speak to JVP; Karu J’s position shaky
The Opposition United National Party (UNP) holds its annual convention today despite a last minute attempt to have it cancelled as the re-appointment or sacking of its deputy leader Karu Jayasuriya becomes the major issue of the event.
 
 
Chaos in House as TNA MPs protest
Odds and Ends
 
Rights treated like rites
Adornment for Relic
 
Rohan Perera elected to Int’l Law Commission
Appointed Navy Chief of Staff
 
Economy on recovery path: Treasury Chief
Claymore blast and gunfire kill four civilians, five troops
 
Cloak of confusion over Budget proposal on garments
   
Viral fever accounts for 80 percent of admissions
   
Firemen wage two-hour battle to douse fire at Kollupitiya
   
Armed gang robs food lorries meant for Vakarai IDPs
   
Somawansa warns Rotarians of main threat to Lanka
   
City floods - polythene the culprit?
   
Who devilled the dance?
   
‘We will continue to agitate for reforms’, says Karu
   
Lilantha back to politics
   
Visa procedures misused by local companies?
   
JVP gets cheering Govt. without hearing
   
Foreign Ministry shifted out
   
The shock and shame of Subashini slaying
   
On dangerous ground
   
Mahinda, the humanist -Comment
   
Proposed Muslim representation changes are disturbing: NMM -Comment

Copyright 2006 Wijeya Newspapers Ltd.Colombo. Sri Lanka.