BY Ellmo Gooneratne Jaffna had invaders from Malaysia, Eastern India and Kerala. They conquered the Jaffna Kingdom but never went back but stayed back in Jaffna and settled. The first American Missionary Medical College was […]
By S. Sivathasan – A Plan, What For? What is mystical about 100 days? Everything about it is mystical. Listing out of items shows a clear selection of priorities from a well thought out process. Publicity […]
By Usha S Sri-Skanda-Rajah – “…it is a question that needs to be litigated because, the (Sri Lankan) government certainly behaved as though its intention was to wipe out at least a part of the […]
Yesterday’s rally in Nugegoda organised by the hard-core Sinhala nationalists, i.e. Weerawansa, Dinesh, Gammanpila and Vasudeva with the blessings of former President Mahinda Rajapakse and their pseudo intellectual appendage Dayan Jayatilleke reminds us that the […]
Sri Lanka’s new president has no immediate plans to change laws regarding people illegally leaving the country Asylum seekers returned to Sri Lanka will face court charged with illegally leaving the country as Sri Lanka’s […]
By Gagani Weerakoon and Skandha Gunasekara The Ministry of Foreign affairs informed Parliament yesterday that the government had paid Rs 95,592,244 to a multinational law firm to carry out tasks that Sri Lanka Embassy officials […]
CHENNAI: CPI(M) today demanded that the Sri Lanka government launch an independent high-level probe into allegations of “countless attacks” and human rights violations against the country’s Tamil civilians during the 2009 civil war against LTTE […]
By Niranjala Ariyawansha Charges of corruption had been levelled against 61 politicians, including members of Parliament and ministers, Director General of the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption, Dilrukshi Wickremasinghe, said yesterday (19). […]
BY Gagani Weerakoon Police media spokesman SSP Ajith Rohana is often under attack by various parties in society, including politicians. He has been called a parakeet of the incumbent government. But, Rohana said the police […]
The witness protection bill has been passed unanimously in the parliament today. The much delayed bill was approved by the Cabinet last July. It was first tabled before the parliament in 2008 but was deferred. […]
