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Day: 17 March 2015

National reconciliation: Church failed to make use of Pope’s visit – Fr. Emmanuel

17/03/201517/03/2015 Karu

By Shamindra Ferdinando President of the Global Tamil Forum (GTF) Rev. Dr. S.J. Emmanuel says the Catholic Church has a crucial role to play in post-war national reconciliation process. Dr. Emmanuel said that the Catholic […]

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New Lanka condemns Pak church attacks

17/03/201517/03/2015 Karu

Sri Lanka today condemned “in strongest possible terms” the deadly suicide attacks targeting Christians at two churches in Pakistan. The attacks in Lahore on March 15, killed 16 people and injured over 70 during Sunday […]

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

Gotabhaya no Superman

17/03/201517/03/2015 Karu

By Ifham Nizam Former Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa was not a superman, said Water Supply and Urban Development Minister Rauff Hakeem yesterday, in response to the challenge made by Rajapaksa during an interview that no […]

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

Sri Lanka’s new Government suffers first defection

17/03/201517/03/2015 Karu

Colombo – Sri Lanka’s new government suffered its first defection on Tuesday when the higher education minister quit, saying political reforms had not gone far enough. Rajiva Wijesinghe said proposed constitutional changes fell short of […]

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

Weapons found in floating armoury are not state owned: Gotabaya

17/03/201517/03/2015 Karu

Ex-President’s brother and former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Monday (16) asserted that weapons recovered from the floating armoury in the southern port of Galle are not owned by the state. While claiming that cabinet […]

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

Attacks on fishermen will affect ties with Sri Lanka

17/03/201517/03/2015 Karu

DMK leader M. Karunanidhi warned that attack on Tamil fishermen by the Sri Lankan Navy would affect the bilateral relationship between India and Sri Lanka, especially at a time Prime Minister Narendra Modi had taken […]

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

Foreign mothers having TOO MANY babies in Britain, minister warns

17/03/201517/03/2015 Karu

FOREIGN mothers are having too many babies in Britain and immigration should be curbed, a government minister has warned. Former Home Office undersecretary Lord Bates called for a government crackdown on “those who want to […]

By Karuna, LATEST UPDATES, SPECIAL NEWS, UK NEWS

SriLankan handed over for cronies’ joyrides!

17/03/201517/03/2015 Karu

The Ranil-Maithri ‘Yaha Paalana’ regime has handed over the now fast-sinking SriLankan Airlines to a group of Ranil’s cronies in order to speed up its death, reports say. Functioning under the finance ministry, the airline […]

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Sri Lanka: Beyond Genocide

17/03/201517/03/2015 Karu

Two generations of Sri Lankan Tamils have been lost, fighting for a separate state, playing victim and waiting to be saved. We have to move on. I suggest we go back to the father of […]

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

19th Amendment To The Constitution: Full Text Of Gazetted Bill

17/03/201517/03/2015 Karu

The Gazette notification on the 19th Amendment to the Constitution has been published today. Last Sunday the cabinet decided against the complete abolition of the Executive Presidency as promised in the election manifesto, and instead […]

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

Sri Lanka’s Tamil Minority Grows Impatient With Just Promises

17/03/201517/03/2015 Karu

JAFFNA, Sri Lanka — There may be no place more beautiful on the breathtaking tropical island of Sri Lanka than the white sand beaches along the Palka Strait, which is why building a luxury resort […]

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

Fisher war in the Palk Strait

17/03/201517/03/2015 Karu

Nearly three or more days a week, about 2000 Indian trawl boats or more are crossing the International Maritime Boundary Line to fish on the Sri Lankan side of the Palk Bay in the north. […]

By Karuna, INDIA NEWS, SRI LANKA NEWS

“The state thought we were terrorists, the LTTE thought we were traitors.”- A middle-aged single mother near Batticaloa

17/03/201517/03/2015 Karu

By Athulasiri Kumara Samarakoon – “The state thought we were terrorists, the LTTE thought we were traitors.”- A middle-aged single mother near Batticaloa (Eastern Sri Lanka)[i] By militarily defeating the LTTE, Sri Lanka eliminated a […]

By Karuna, INDIA NEWS, SRI LANKA NEWS, WORLD NEWS

In Sri Lanka, Army runs resorts, shops, salons and travel agencies

17/03/201517/03/2015 Karu

Written by Shubhajit Roy | Jaffna | Updated: March 16, 2015 7:22 pm A pristine white building with a classy brown wooden finish overlooks the blue Indian Ocean at Kankensanthurai, about 19 km from Jaffna […]

By Karuna, LATEST UPDATES, SRI LANKA NEWS

Barbs From Within After Ranil’s Right to Shoot Intruders remark

17/03/201517/03/2015 Karu

COLOMBO/ NEW DELHI:Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe again tried to step on India’s toes by saying his country’s navy has the right to shoot anyone who intrudes into its territorial waters. The statement came  […]

By Karuna, INDIA NEWS, SRI LANKA NEWS

Gota’s sale of arms to Indian terrorists detected: SL craft with weapons in Indian custody

17/03/201517/03/2015 Karu

Gota’s sale of arms to Indian terrorists detected: SL craft with weapons in Indian custody (Lanka-e-News- 21.Jan.2014, 11.00PM) A craft of Sri Lanka (SL) criminal defense secretary Gotabaya Rajapakse’s transporting weapons had been seized by […]

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