Australia considering Tiger ban

SYDNEY: Australia is considering formally declaring the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) a terrorist group, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said yesterday.

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Development mechanism revolutionalised, says President

COLOMBO: Several arduous tasks presumed almost impossible and thereby abandoned in the past, have been fulfilled and accomplished successfully, within the last three years, said President Mahinda Rajapaksa addressing a ceremony to symbolically confer 960 appointments to Cadet Officers cum English Teachers at Temple Trees yesterday.

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SC nod for TMVP leader’s entry to House

The Supreme Court yesterday refused to inquire into the rights application against the appointment of Vinayagamoorthi Muralitharan alias Karuna Amman on the United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) list to Parliament.

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WTC to be ‘full’ soon

Sri Lanka’s premier business hub and office complex, the World Trade Centre (WTC) will be 100 per cent occupied within the next couple of years in housing major companies in the country.

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