(Lanka-e-News, May 11, 2008, 11.30 PM) The election result of the Batticaloa district has prompted the government to appoint Pillaiyan as the Chief Minister of the Eastern Provincial Council....
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(Lanka-e-News, May 11, 2008, 6.30 PM) President Mahinda Rajapakse left for London today
(Lanka-e-News, 2008 May 11, 5.16 AM) The first ever election in the demerged eastern Province was held yesterday (10) to elect 37 members to the provincial Council.
The results of the election are displayed as soon as officially announced....
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(Lanka-e-News, 2008 May 11, 2.45 AM)
Provincial Council Elections - 2008
Displaced Votes - Trincomalee District-
United National Party - 1143 (85.30%)
United People's Freedom Alliance - 166 (12.39%)...
(Lanka-e-News, 2008 May 11, 2.10 AM)
Provincial Council Elections – 2008
Displaced Votes - Batticaloa District-
Eelam People's Democratic Party - 51 (42.50%)
United National Party - 48 (40.00%)....
(Lanka-e-News, 2008 May 10, 11.45 PM) The election for the Eastern Provincial Council took place with serious incidents being reported from several areas...
(Lanka-e-News, 2008 May 10, 11.45 PM) The Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE) observes that the Eastern Provincial election, which was held today,...
(Lanka-e-News, May 10, 2008, 9.00 PM) President's Adviser A.H.M. ASwer arrived in Sammanthurai, Al-Arfat school polling center in a vehicle bearing the number HW9736,...
(lanka-e-News-2008 May 10, 7.00AM) Human trafficking is a profitable business. In Sri Lanka even politicians, Government officials and police are also involved
(Lanka-e-News, May 09, 2008, 8.00 PM) Deputy Inspector General of Police - Election Affairs, B.K.G. Nawarathna said to Lanka-e-News that...
(Lanka-e-News, May 09, 2008, 11.00 AM) Foreign journalists are sanctioned reporting the incidents of the Eastern Provincial Council election....
(Lanka-e-News, May 09, 2008, 11.00 AM) Opposition Leader Ranil Wickramasinghe warns that the livelihoods of 350,000 direct employers of garment industry and 1,250,000 people that depend indirectly on....
(Lanka-e-News, May 07, 2008. 9.00 PM) This morning, police arrested the group that was protesting in front of the office of the..
(Lanka-e-News, May 07, 2008. 9.00 PM) The President has instructed the Election Commissioner to organize an election for the North Central Provincial Council...
(Lanka-e-News, May 07, 2008, 12.15 PM) A protest campaign was held last evening (06) before the office of the Election Commissioner in Rajagiriya to urge the government to grant....
(Lanka-e-News, May 07, 2008, 12.15 PM) Prime Minister Rathnasiri Wickramanayaka says that 120 officials of armed forces and police were killed and 945 were injured during the period between March 31 and April 29....
(Lanka-e-News, 2008 May 06, 9.15 AM) One person was seriously injured and admitted to Ampara hospital as an armed mob of Pillaiyan Group attacked...
(Lanka-e-News, 2008 May 06, 9.15 AM) Post Master General (PMG) M.K.B. Disanayaka says that the average of the mailing of polling cards is 90%,...
(Lanka-e-News, 2008 May 05, 7.20 PM) President's brother and Defense Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapakse said that he often advised the President to ban...
(LankaeNews, 05 May 2008, 5.50PM) Today (5) around 9.45am in Muhamalai forward defense line troops thwarted an attack by...
(Lanka-e-News, 2008 May 03, 2.40 PM) On April 30, the cabinet of Ministers passed a memorandum submitted by President Mahinda Rajapakse to appoint a Special Task Force as....
(Lanka-e-News, 2008 May 02, 9.40 PM) Weerawansa Faction that broke away from JVP is to launch their new political party in mid May...
(Lanka-e-News, 2008 May 02, 9.30 PM) Lanka-e-news wishes to report how the minor leftist groups...
(Lanka-e-News, 2008 May 02, 9.30 AM) Pillaiyan Group threatened the supporters of Eastern Provincial Council UNP candidate of Batticaloa district Mr. Jegan at gun point not to...
(Lanka-e-News, 2008 May 02, 9.30 AM) A Tamil person working in United Nation's Development Fund was arrested at Irattaperiyakulam police checkpoint while transporting a revolver....
(Lanka-e-News, 2008 May 01, 10.30 PM) Colombo District Court fixed July 14 to hear a case filed by JVP leader Somawansa Amarasinghe against Swarnawahini...
(Lanka-e-News, 2008 April 30, 11.35 PM) Former Minister and Mayor of Colombo Municipal Council Sirisena Cooray filed a civil case in Colombo District Court against...
(Lanka-e-News, 2008 April 29, 10.30 PM) Fraud Investigation Bureau of Mirihana police has initiated a probe on a complaint that two more...
(Lanka-e-News, 2008 April 29, 7.30 PM) Dr. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, accompanied by a high ranking delegation paid...
(Lanka-e-News, 2008 April 29, 9.15 AM) Rathnapura town was flooded this afternoon since the water levels went up in a number of rivers including....
(Lanka-e-News, 2008 April 28, 8.45 PM) United National Party (UNP) says that unidentified masked persons in the Eastern Province often intimidate civilians. UNP said...
(Lanka-e-News, May 11, 2008, 2.10 PM) United People's Freedom Alliance (UPFA) won the Eastern Provincial Council election bagging 20 seats...
(Lanka-e-News, May 10, 2008, 11.45 PM) A team of around 30 cadres of Pillaiyan Group who arrived in the Batticaloa Mahajana Vidyalaya polling center in a van just ten minutes before the polling was closed,...
(Lanka-e-News, May 10, 2008, 9.00 PM) The peaceful environment that prevailed only an hour after the polling was commenced for the Eastern Provincial Council changed to violence rapidly reporting incidents of chasing polling agents from polling centers,....
(Lanka-e-News, May 10, 2008, 9.00 PM) Photos depict controversial character UPFA candidate Chandrakanthan Kusgeran alias Pillaiyan voting, his father Mr. Arumugam Sivaneshanthurai voting at....
(Lanka-e-News-2008 May 10, 6.30AM.) Unader water explosion damaged and caused logistic vessel A-520(MV Invincible) to sink while moored at the Ashroff...
(Lanka-e-News, May 09, 2008, 8.00 PM) UNP complained to the Deputy Inspector of Police Trincomalee that President's Adviser Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra...
(Lanka-e-News, 2008 May 09, 7.00 PM) A bomb blast inside the hotel named "New City Cafe" at Ampara town around 5.45 P.M. today (09).
The initial report received from the area said....
(Lanka-e-News, 2008 May 9, 1.30 PM) Sri Lanka Army soldiers fighting against LTTE on the Mannar front, captured Adampan town area this morning (09), defence sources said....
(Lanka-e-News, May 09, 2008, 11.00 AM) The Coordinator of the People's Movement for a Free and Fair Election Nimalka Fernando was blocked entry to...
(Lanka-e-News, 2008 May 08, 7.40PM) Today (08) troops captured two square km of ground in 2km South of Adampan area including the Adampan tank in Mannar....
(Lanka-e-News, May 07, 2008. 9.00 PM) United National Party (UNP) said in the parliament yesterday that the Pillaiyan Group that contested...
(Lanka-e-News, May 07, 2008. 9.00 PM) Minister of Media Lakshman Abeawardhana says that the government had no special reason to prorogue the parliament and it was intended some time ago...
(Lanka-e-News, May 07, 2008, 11.30 AM) The President has decided to prorogue the parliament since midnight yesterday (06).
The proroguing is to be announced by a special gazette by the President....
(Lanka-e-News, May 07, 2008, 11.30 AM) Much hyped Mihin Lanka launched by the Rajapakse regime has become a bankrupt company with no assets and a loss of Rs. 3.2 billion....
(Lanka-e-News, 2008 May 06, 9.15 AM) The helicopter in which Opposition Leader Ranil Wickramasinghe was returning to Colombo from Eastern Provincial Council election campaigning in Batticaloa was emergency-landed a due to a....
(Lanka-e-News, 2008 May 05, 7.20 PM) A spokesman of the JVP Moderate Group said to 'Lanka-e-News' that another traitor of the 1988-89 period is still in the JVP - Somawansa Faction...
(Lanka-e-News, 2008 May 5, 11.35 AM) 12 kg of explosives were found from Ambakote area in the Theldeniya Police division during a search operation....
(Lanka-e-News, 2008 May 02, 9.00PM) State intelligence has unearthed a subtle, astounding plan of the LTTE to kill the President using the bride as a suicide bomber....
(Lanka-e-News, 2008 May 03, 10.30 PM) Reliable sources say that the JVP politburo has decided to appoint Kurunegala district MP Bimal...
(Lanka-e-News, 2008 May 02, 11.20 AM) 'Lanka-e-News' learns that a third group named 'Moderates' have been formed in the JVP after ten MPs led by Wimal Weerawansa split from the party....
(Lanka-e-News, 2008 May 02, 9.30 AM) Rajapakse regime that attempted to solve the ethnic problem through war is now in an effort to bring the LTTE into negotiation table....
(Lanka-e-News, 2008 May 02, 9.30 AM) Piliyandala police says that they have arrested two Tamils and a Sinhalese with the remote controller used to detonate the bomb in a passenger bus...
(Lanka-e-News, 2008 May 01, 10.30 AM) LTTE was attacking Padaviya occasionally with artillery shells since yesterday morning (30).
(Lanka-e-News, 2008 April 30, 11.30 PM)Due to frustration over the internal conflicts of the JVP, Chulani Hewawasam, the only member of the Horana Urban Council..
(Lanka-e-News, 2008 April 29, 6.30 PM) Minister of Labor Dr. Mervin Silva was seriously injured today (29) when the vehicle he was travelling in met with an accident at at Ninth Mile Post,...
(Lanka-e-News, 2008 April 29, 10.20 PM) United National Party (UNP) says that Air Force unpreparedness while the security forces..
(Lanka-e-News, 2008 April 29, 10.00 AM) Iran President Mahamood Ahamadinejad arrived in Sri Lanka yesterday (28) afternoon for a two day visit...
(Lanka-e-News, 2008 April 29, 9.15 AM) A suspect named Rani who was kept in the custody of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) 6th floor under suspicion....
(Lanka-e-News, 2008 April 28, 10.50 AM) A powerful bomb was found and defused at a crowded bus station in Galgamuwa today (28) morning...
(Lanka-e-News, 2008 April 27, 8.30 AM) LTTE air wing has reportedly launched two aerial attacks at Welioya Forward Defense Line today (27) around 1.40 AM...
(Lanka-e-News, 2008 April 27,7.10 AM) The photos depict the exploded bus with shattered roof, in which a bomb exploded killing 26 passengers and injuring 73 more at Piliyandala...
(Lanka-e-News, 2008 April 26, 4.30 PM) A tense situation prevails near Kalubowila hospital as the authorities has failed to release 16 bodies of the persons killed by the bus bomb at Piliyandala, for funerals....