ECONOMYNEXT – Speaker Karu Jayasuriya today pledged that all independent commissions in line with the constitution will be established before the end of October while the anti-graft panel will be in place this month itself. […]
by Neville Ladduwahetty The bizarre political collusion between the two major coalitions the UNFGG and the UPFA has caused the UPFA to become a constituent of the UNFGG-led Government. The unintended consequence has been for […]
Objection to Rajavarothiam Sampanthan being made Opposition Leader has ranged from rank communalism, justifiable fears given his and his party’s unabashed endorsement of a terrorist outfit, through a questioning of representational power to the machinations […]
Uva-Wellassa was the granary of Kandy before it was annexed by the British in 1815 | (lsdtourism.site50.net) Ihave written no less than three times requesting that the road named after the butcher of Uva-Wellassa, Brownrigg, […]
Few things are so cliché as an oil spill by a large multinational corporation in a third-world country. It would hardly make news nowadays. Oil spills in poor places are boring stuff, not dazzling enough […]
Tamil tilt to the inquiry scale Will the TNA fall in line with the government stance on war crime probe?: by P. Krishnaswamy With less than two weeks to go for the Geneva sessions of […]
Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa has dismissed allegations made by former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga in her recent interview with The Hindu newspaper that his government had been a ‘police state’. Issuing a strongly worded statement […]
Leader of the Global Tamil Forum Rev.Fr. S.J.Immanuel says our struggle was ended up at the Mulliwaikal and international community well aware on it. Lankan government together with 20 nations brutally attacked the Tamil people […]
The team behind the controversial Emmy-nominated feature documentary No Fire Zone – credited with playing a key role in convincing the international community to take action over the Sri Lankan massacres of 2009, in which […]
The Government is confident of obtaining support in Geneva at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC). Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapaksha said that the international community had placed its faith on the new Government following the […]
At the end of August, the United States announced that it would support Sri Lanka’s plan for investigating alleged war crimes that occurred during the final years of the country’s long-running civil war, which ended […]
The Tamil question cannot be settled by merely regarding it as an economic issue, Mano Ganesan, one of the three Tamil Ministers in the Sri Lankan government, has said. “There are people who even now […]
With an important UN Human Rights Council session on the horizon, Colombo’s plan for ‘accountability’ is hotly debated. With the opening of the U.N. Human Rights Council’s 30th session just days away, many Sri Lanka watchers […]
Sri Lanka’s controversial human rights record comes up before the UN Human Rights Council in September, this time in the backdrop of monumental political changes in the island. The new Sri Lankan Government will be […]
By Dinesh D. Dodamgoda – The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) leader Mr. R. Sampanthan was selected as the Leader of the Opposition in the Sri Lankan Parliament by the Speaker, Mr. Karu Jayasuriya. The position […]
By Aboobacker Rameez – The country marks another historical milestone with the selection of Mr R. Sampanthan, a Tamil MP by ethnicity, as the opposition leader of the Parliament. It was Mr Amirthaligam MP who […]
19 years in remand without conclusion of case, 17 years and case still ongoing in High Court, 15 years to file charges, 400-500 court hearings without conclusion of a case, 15 cases against one person, […]
National List? What List? The 8th parliament has been convened after a roller-coaster election. The indelible ink still stains my little finger, but my optimism about the national list wore off some time ago. The […]
By Shamindra Ferdinando President Maithripala Sirisena yesterday sworn in UNP Chairman Malik Samarawickreme as Minister of Development Strategies and International Trade, Vijith Wijayamuni Zoysa as Minister of Irrigation and Water Resource Management (SLFP) and Faizer […]
Plethora of UPFA MPs facing serious criminal allegations gets deputy minister slots Firebrand economist and UNP’s number three in Colombo District Harsha de Silva made Deputy Foreign Minister as opposed to Economic Affairs and Policy previously Niroshan Perera– […]
