CHENNAI: Officials of the Air Intelligence Unit of the Customs seized gold bars weighing 1.16 kg from a Sri Lankan national at the Anna International terminal here on Friday. They were concealed in stroller rods of checked-in baggage. They arrested ...

  By Mandana Ismail AbeywickremaThe JVP last week charged that the government has unleashed a state of financial terrorism in the country and splurged millions of rupees of the Norochcholai power project on vehicles and political propaganda for VIPs in the ...

  Euro Scan Exports (Pvt) Ltd., the marketers of the world renowned brand of tea - Mlesna - ceremoniously opened the “Mlesna Tea Castle” the biggest of its kind in Patana, Talawakelle recently with much pomp and fanfare amidst a distinguished ...

  By Padmini MatarageLabour unions representing estate workers claim that over Rs.700 million in ETF and EPF funds of estate workers of the Namunukula Plantations Limited have gone missing. According to the Ceylon Estate Staff's Union, over 700 million rupees ...

  State intelligence agencies have received information that the LTTE had called up its operatives in foreign countries to immediately come to battle. Intelligence agencies say that the LTTE is calling up its members from overseas as they are unable to ...

 By Gayan Kumara WeerasinghaPolice investigations have revealed that the killing of Dr. S.W. Palitha Padmakumara, who was serving at the Nawakkadu government hospital in Vavunathivu, Batticaloa, had been carried out on the orders of “Varnan” who is a TMVP area ...

   Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa yesterday called for an audit of funds received by INGOs and NGOs for development work in areas under LTTE control at the time of the Norwegian brokered CFA came into operation in February 2002. He ...

  Massive port development projects now underway will see an upsurge of shipping into the country giving ship chandlers many new opportunities which they must be ready to exploit, Capt. Ravi Jayawickrema, the Harbourmaster, told the recent AGM of the ...