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 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 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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
