A small hydropower station being built at Athwelthota in Baduraliya by Dhammika Ranatunga’s Sakura Engineering (Pvt.) Ltd. is causing damage to environment, alleges the Environment Conservation Trust.

John Amaratunga has been sworn in as the Minister of Land a short while ago.

The Government of Japan has decided to provide a total sum of US$ 1,238,003(approximately Rs. 177 million) as grant aid to two organizations for humanitarian demining in Northern Sri Lanka under its Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Project(GGP).

The Lanka Japan Friendship Society (LJFS) announced their 60th anniversary recently.

The conflict between India and Pakistan has for long prevented integration between the South Asian countries, former Sri Lankan president Chandrika Kumaratunga said here on Tuesday.

A middle-aged Tamil mother Monday identified her missing son in a photograph that showed a group of LTTE cadres alive while in the Sri Lankan military custody during the final few days of the bloody war.