President Maitripala Sirisena to work with Mahinda President Maitripala Sirisena, addressing the Nuwara Eliya district committee of the SLFP yesterday, said that he would strive to form a government led by the Sri Lanka Freedom […]
June 22, 2015 (LBO) – Sri Lanka will regain the GSP plus trade concession after the Human Rights Council sessions which are to be held in Geneva in September, Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe said. The […]
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena yesterday said there cannot be two leaders in a country. “A country should be governed by one leader and he should be allowed to run its administration” the President said […]
Mangala-GTF talks split tamil Diaspora – TGTE says GTF has no mandate to represent the rest – ‘Sumanthiran does not have full support of TNA’ Rasika Jayakody Eric Solheim Suren Surendiran V. Rudrakumaran Talks between […]
Relatives of LTTE leaders, including Nadesan and Pulitheven, will explain the circumstances that led to their surrender and their subsequent disappearance at a meeting to be held in Geneva on June 24. The meeting has […]
CHENNAI: A day after 17 Nagapattinam fishermen were apprehended by the Sri Lankan navy, Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa on Sunday urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to personally intervene to secure the release of […]
Festival next step in community’s growth, says Mayor John Tory Tamil Fest 2015 Staff photo/MIKE ADLER Toronto Mayor John Tory and other dignitaries join a group of performers during the launch of Tamil Fest 2015 […]
We continued to organise and strengthen the Consulate General’s Office. We tried to maintain close contact with the Controller of Immigration in Colombo and strict controls were put in place with regards to the issuance […]
The issue of resettling the Muslim people that LTTE expelled from the North in 1990 remains unresolved. Many of them still live outside their original residences. Meantime, various allegations have been directed at Minister of […]
A mortgaged media! media! The immediate outcome of the January 8 election has been a fillip to freedom of expression in the media, but behind the euphoria of the moment trails a three-decade-long record of […]
The outcome of the presidential election of January 2015 created expectations of change, hope and reform among considerable sections of Sri Lankan society. For Muslim communities, who played a pivotal role in the election, the […]
