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Not the PM post, they should be in jail by now, says Chandrika

01/07/201501/07/2015 Karu

Not the PM post, they should be in jail by now, says Chandrika Despite our lives are in danger, we will fight any battle for the sake of the country, former President Chandrika Kumaratunga said. […]

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

Push To Free Tamil Detainees

01/07/201501/07/2015 Karu

By Waruni Karunarathne The issue about Tamil political prisoners has remained a question for sometime now. Many Tamil political parties including the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) have been calling upon the previous government and even the present government […]

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

People will consign Mahinda to the dustbin

01/07/201501/07/2015 Karu

People will consign MR to the dustbin: Navin In a response to former president Mahinda Rajapaksa’s speech today, Tourism and Sports Minister Navin Dissanayake said people would reject Mr. Rajapaksa and consign him into the […]

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

Sri Lankan voters urged to shun ‘candidates of disrepute’

01/07/201501/07/2015 Karu

COLOMBO (EconomyNext) – Sri Lanka’s business community and professionals organisations have thrown their weight behind calls for voters to elect only ‘candidates of repute’ and against those involved in frauds, violence and crime at forthcoming […]

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

We will go it alone unless threat from MR arises: SF

01/07/201501/07/2015 Karu

UNP to hold talks with Fonseka on polls The United National Party (UNP) is to hold talks with Fie… While claiming they would contest alone at the upcoming General Election, Democratic Party Leader, Field Marshall […]

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

Looking to Sri Lanka’s Parliamentary Election

01/07/201501/07/2015 Karu

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena recently dissolved parliament. The election will be held on August 17; a new parliament will gather on September 1. Yet what happens next is still far from clear. To complicate […]

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

More than 100,000 persons jobless in Eastern Province

01/07/201501/07/2015 Karu

By Ifham Nizam, reporting from Batticaloa More than 100,000 people of the Eastern Province, of some 600,000 persons categorized as the working class, do nothing for a living, which is one of the biggest stumbling […]

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

General election 2015: The Diaspora factor, foreign policy issues

01/07/201501/07/2015 Karu

by Shamindra Ferdinando President Maithripala Sirisena has set the stage for an early general election, ahead of the next session of the Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), in early September. The UNHRC holds […]

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

Creates confusion within MR Camp

01/07/201501/07/2015 Karu

Statement issued by President’s Media Unit Creates confusion within MR Camp MR likely to announce plan “B” today President Sirisena endorses proposal to accommodate MR MR initially agrees to consider offer to contest under SLFP […]

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

BBS to represent Sinhalese at Parliament polls

01/07/201501/07/2015 Karu

The Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) said that they will be contesting the upcoming parliamentary elections scheduled to be held on August 17 and will represent the Sinhalese community. BBS General Secretary Galagoda Aththe Gnasara Thero said that […]

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

Mahinda breaks his silence, says he will contest

01/07/201501/07/2015 Karu

Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa today broke his silence with regards to the August 17 Parliament elections and formally announced that he will be contesting the polls. Speaking in front of a large crowd at his […]

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

MAHINDA’s camp confirms MAITHIRI refused to give PM post

01/07/201501/07/2015 Karu

Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s camp has confirmed that President Maithripala Sirisena has refused to name Rajapaksa as the Prime Ministerial candidate of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP). A United Peoples Freedom Alliance (UPFA) politician […]

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

Lands being sold to LTTE – BBS

01/07/201501/07/2015 Karu

The Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) warned that the there were plans underway by the government, to sell areas of strategic importance to national security in the North and East, to a pro-Liberation Tigers of Tamil […]

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

Hyatt hotels in Colpetty and Hambantota – Many of the contracts were handed on personal basis without open tenders, the audit report found

01/07/201501/07/2015 Karu

Initial cost of Rs. 13 b doubles due to massive mismanagement including  Rs. 5 b EPF funds Former board had no formal meetings, contracts doled out with no tender procedure  Rs. 300 m spent on […]

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

President Maithripala has said the UPFA will not field Rajapaksa as its prime ministerial candidate!

01/07/201501/07/2015 Karu

Present, Past Presidents & Care Taker Prime Minister Who will the climb to the top in the greasy polls after the cross pollinations in the nation after all these character assasination? The count down has […]

By Karuna, INDIA NEWS, LATEST UPDATES, SPECIAL NEWS, SRI LANKA NEWS
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  • Divided people in a distorted democracy 01/03/2021
  • For Families of the Disappeared, the International Community is Their Last Hope 01/03/2021
  • Tamils in Jaffna commence hunger strike demanding referral of Sri Lanka to the ICC 01/03/2021
  • British Tamil woman commences hunger strike demanding Sri Lanka be referred to ICC 01/03/2021
  • Support for Sri Lanka’s unity and territorial integrity and Abiding commitment to aspirations of the Tamils of Sri Lanka for equality, justice, peace and dignity 01/03/2021
  • Sri Lanka-Pakistan ties on a new footing following Imran Khan’s visit 27/02/2021
  • Reconcile!! It will never happen Says Sri Lankan Foreign Secretary Adm.Jayanath Colambage 27/02/2021
  • Support us or? Sri Lanka attempting “to play Pakistan Vs India” 27/02/2021
  • More Army men involved in narcotics racket 27/02/2021
  • 21 countries (Russia, China, Pakistan ..)have spoken in favour of Sri Lanka at the UNHRC so far, and that is an achievement. 27/02/2021
  • In Geneva, India Signals to Sri Lanka that Support in UNHRC Is Not a Given 27/02/2021
  • UNHCR Should Focus On The Sovereignty Of The Oppressed Not Of The Oppressors 27/02/2021
  • Lanka’s (Executioner) Ambassador In Geneva Set To Align With World’s Worst Human Rights Violators 27/02/2021
  • UNHRC sessions: What Lanka should have done 27/02/2021
  • UNHRC sessions: What Lanka should have done 27/02/2021
  • SL has Human Rights standard of China 27/02/2021
  • US calls for strategy & timetable to implement OHCHR report’s recommendations on SL 27/02/2021
  • UN to act on report despite objections 27/02/2021
  • Prince Charles ‘nearly drew blood’ laughing in Sri Lanka & was taken to underpant factory 18/02/2021
  • Tamil politics is taking a new direction- The Pottuvil to Polikandi pada yatra 17/02/2021
  • Who is Lying? SL President or US Ambassador? 17/02/2021
  • What If There Is A Showdown In Geneva? 17/02/2021
  • Post-P2P, Pre-Geneva: The GR Regime’s Zero-Option Offer To The Tamils 17/02/2021
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  • SL to tender home-grown resolution that will never grow. 17/02/2021

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