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Day: 8 February 2015

SLMC seeks unity with the TNA

08/02/201508/02/2015 Karu

The Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) today invited the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) to form a national unity government in the Eastern Provincial Council (EPC). SLMC leader Rauff Hakeem said that at a time when […]

By Karuna, LATEST UPDATES, SPECIAL NEWS, SRI LANKA NEWS

TNA Parliamentarian MA Sumanthiran in Geneva to Lobby for Release in March of UN War Crimes Report Against Sri Lanka.

08/02/201508/02/2015 Karu

By P.K.Balachandran M.A.Sumanthiran, a Tamil National Alliance (TNA) MP, is currently in Geneva lobbying at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) for release of the UN’s investigative report on allegations of war crimes committed in […]

By Karuna, LATEST UPDATES, SPECIAL NEWS, SRI LANKA NEWS

Heroic Saga of an Eastern Warrior: Lt. Col Kausalyan – Batticaloa-Amparai LTTE Political Chief

08/02/201508/02/2015 Karu

By D.B.S.Jeyaraj  (Former Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam(LTTE) political commissar for Batticaloa and Amparai districts Eliyathamby Nagenthiran Lingarasa alias Kausalyan was assassinated on February 7th 2005. This article published in “The Sunday Leader”then is reproduced to […]

By Karuna, LATEST UPDATES, SPECIAL NEWS, SRI LANKA NEWS, WORLD NEWS

Eastern Tiger Political Chief Kausalyan, TNA Amparai Dist Ex-MP Chandranehru and 7 Others Shot Dead 10 Years Ago

08/02/201508/02/2015 Karu

By D. B. S. Jeyaraj (Former Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam(LTTE) political commissar for Batticaloa and Amparai districts Eliyathamby Nagenthiran Lingarasa alias Kausalyan and Tamil National Alliance (TNA)ex-parliamentarian from Amparai district Ariyanayagam Chandranehru and seven […]

By Karuna, LATEST UPDATES, SPECIAL NEWS, SRI LANKA NEWS

Govt Attempting To Hide Rajapaksa Corruption?

08/02/201508/02/2015 Karu

Swarnavahini had been instructed to delay telecasting the raid of a super-luxury meditation center that had been constructed for the use of Rajapaksas,this week. Deputy Minister and UNP MP Ranjan Ramanayake had accompanied a group […]

By Karuna, LATEST UPDATES, SPECIAL NEWS, SRI LANKA NEWS

Over 2,000 important files missing at the Ministry, says Ravi

08/02/201508/02/2015 Karu

Over 2,000 important files missing at the Ministry, says Ravi Minister Ravi Karunanayake says he received information that over 2,000 important files of the Finance Ministry have gone missing. Karunanayake added that he will complain […]

By Karuna, LATEST UPDATES, SPECIAL NEWS, SRI LANKA NEWS

Remarks on the Occasion of the 67th Anniversary of Sri Lankan Independence

08/02/201508/02/2015 Karu

Antony J. Blinken Deputy Secretary of State Washington, DC February 5, 2015 As prepared for delivery. Thank you, Ambassador Kariyawasam. It is a privilege and a joy to celebrate Sri Lanka’s National Day with all […]

By Karuna, LATEST UPDATES, SRI LANKA NEWS, WORLD NEWS

More Time For Probe On Missing

08/02/201508/02/2015 Karu

By Waruni Karunarathne The mandate of the Presidential Commission to Investigate Missing Persons has been extended till August 15, 2015. Secretary of the Presidential Commission to Investigate Missing Persons, H. W. Gunadasa told The Sunday […]

By Karuna, LATEST UPDATES, SRI LANKA NEWS

Thirty thoughts on the First 30 days

08/02/201508/02/2015 Karu

1. The President: Excellent; no two words about this. Maithripala Sirisena is not loud in his manner nor speech but is strong and gives the impression he brooks no nonsense. So we really are in […]

By Karuna, LATEST UPDATES, SRI LANKA NEWS

President Sirisena’s 67-year question and the 100-Day Plan

08/02/201508/02/2015 Karu

by Rajan Philips “We have failed in the essential task of nation building,” said President Chandrika Kumaratunga in her speech to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Sri Lanka’s independence. That was in 1998. Seventeen years […]

By Karuna, LATEST UPDATES, SRI LANKA NEWS

Bypassing Cabinet, Rajapaksa paid Rs. 1.39b to US firms and middleman

08/02/201508/02/2015 Karu

The Presidential Secretariat, under the previous UPFA Government, paid a staggering Rs. 1.39 billion to a middleman and two public relations agencies in the United States to promote Sri Lanka and lobby on behalf of […]

By Karuna, LATEST UPDATES, SRI LANKA NEWS, WORLD NEWS

Worldwide hunt for assets of UPFA leaders

08/02/201508/02/2015 Karu

Worldwide hunt for assets of UPFA leadersWeliamuna joins Mangala to meet World Bank’s StAR unit to recover plundered wealth Measures to trace the foreign assets of top politicians and officials of the former UPFA Government […]

By Karuna, LATEST UPDATES, SRI LANKA NEWS, WORLD NEWS

Govt. to extend controversial detention law by 2 more years

08/02/201508/02/2015 Karu

The new Government is to extend for two years a controversial law which allows the Police to detain for upto 48 hours persons arrested without a warrant on charges of murder and other serious crimes. The […]

By Karuna, LATEST UPDATES, SPECIAL NEWS, SRI LANKA NEWS

UNHRC review on Sri Lanka suspended

08/02/201508/02/2015 Karu

By Sulochana Ramiah Mohan The review on the UN report on Sri Lanka will be put off for September this year, and will not be taken before the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in […]

By Karuna, LATEST UPDATES, SRI LANKA NEWS, WORLD NEWS

Former BBC producer to make film promoting reconciliation in Sri Lanka

08/02/201508/02/2015 Karu

A former BBC television producer is raising money to fund a film promoting reconciliation in Sri Lanka after decades of civil war. Chris Langdon, who lives in Lambolle Road, Belsize Park, recently returned from Sri […]

By Karuna, LATEST UPDATES, SRI LANKA NEWS, UK NEWS, WORLD NEWS

TNA, OISL team discuss report

08/02/201508/02/2015 Karu

The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) has had talks with the team from the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights investigating Sri Lanka (OISL) in Geneva and discussed the report scheduled to be presented to […]

By Karuna, LATEST UPDATES, SRI LANKA NEWS, WORLD NEWS

Lanka’s Govt. hopes to revisit past on its own terms -NY Times

08/02/201508/02/2015 Karu

Lanka’s Govt. hopes to revisit past on its own terms -NY Times The new administration in Sri Lanka has suggested that it could accept the United Nations assistance in trying perpetrators of the worst crimes […]

By Karuna, LATEST UPDATES, SRI LANKA NEWS, WORLD NEWS

Diaspora want UN team in Lanka

08/02/201508/02/2015 Karu

The Tamil diaspora have called on the international community to demand Sri Lanka to allow UN Investigators into the island. The National Council of Canadian Tamils (Canada), Danish Federation of Tamil Associations (Denmark), Italian Council […]

By Karuna, LATEST UPDATES, SRI LANKA NEWS, UK NEWS, WORLD NEWS

That one step by Sampanthan, one giant leap for reconciliation!

08/02/201508/02/2015 Karu

That one step by Sampanthan, one giant leap for reconciliation! Sittrampalam angered by TNA presence – 67th Independence Day celebrations Sampanthan justifies participation at Independence Day celebrations Tamil National Alliance leader R. Sampanthan yesterday justified […]

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