[TamilNet, Tuesday, 12 January 2016, 23:21 GMT] The uprooted Eezham Tamils from Champoor in Moothoor East of Trincomalee district complain that the occupying Sri Lanka Navy, which was supposed to vacate from Champoor Maha Viththiyaalayam […]
BY RUWAN LAKNATH JAYAKODY The Bodu Bala Sena (BBS), the Bodu Jana Peramuna (BJP) and the Eksath Sinhale Mahajana Peramuna (ESMP) called on provisions to be included in the new Constitution changing the name of […]
As Foreign Minister Hugo Swire prepares to visit Sri Lanka this week, the human rights charity Freedom from Torture is calling on him to make sure that UK taxpayers’ money is not handed over to […]
Sri Lanka’s main opposition Tamilleader R Sampanthan today appealed to Mahinda Rajapaksa to back the new Constitution-making process, saying the former president’s support is important. “I wish to make a special appeal to him to […]
COLOMBO: In what appears to be a low-key, business-like visit to Sri Lanka, Indian Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar on Tuesday had talks with his Lankan counterpart, Chitranganee Wagiswara, on the entire gamut of bilateral relations. […]
The Batticaloa Magistrate today further remanded former Eastern Province Chief Minister Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan alias Pillayan, who was arrested in connection with the murder of ex-MP Joseph Pararajasingham, until January 27. The suspect was further […]
The International Truth and Justice Project (ITJP) has welcomed the announcement by the Government of Sri Lanka that it has endorsed the G8 Declaration on Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict. However ITJP has called on […]
THIS GUY’S MARKETING STUNT WAS SO ON-BRAND THAT WE’RE ACTUALLY WRITING ABOUT IT THE COFOUNDER OF MENSWEAR STARTUP MINISTRY OF SUPPLY RAN A HALF MARATHON IN A SUIT; IT WAS PART CUNNING PR, AND PART […]
What is Opposition Leader R. Sampanthan’s stand on the alleged involvement by Colombo District UNP parliamentarian Hirunika Premachandra in the abduction of a youth from a shop in Dematagoda last month? What has he got […]
by Mahendran Thiruvarangan More than six years after the war’s end, a particular line of thinking has come to the forefront in Tamil nationalists’ defence of their politics around national self-determination. I would broadly describe […]
Why is Norway back Southern (Sinhala) extremists are now attempting to gain undue political advantage of the recent visit by the Norwegian Foreign Minister who was on a brief visit to Colombo. These extremists used […]
By Maheesha Mudugamuwa Housing and Samurdhi State Minister Dilan Perera yesterday said that he was ready for an open debate with former External Affairs Minister Prof. G. L Peiris over his contradictory views regarding the […]
[TamilNet, Monday, 11 January 2016, 23:05 GMT] Northern Provincial Councillor M.K. Shivajilingam on Monday urged the public to attend a protest in Jaffna on Wednesday expressing their opposition to the deceptive politics being staged by […]
( January 12, 2016, London, Sri Lanka Guardian) As Foreign Minister Hugo Swireprepares to visit Sri Lanka this week, the human rights charity Freedom from Torture is calling on him to make sure that UK […]
The opposition leader R. Sampanthan said that it is necessary to get the former president Mahinda Rajapaksa’s support for the new constitution. The opposition leader and the leader of TNA said this when he joined […]
The difference between the political universe in the Sinhalese south, and the Tamil north cum Muslim-Tamil north-east, is that the former is a sharp and acid standoff, the latter is confusion. Seven years have passed […]
By D.B.S.Jeyaraj “A thousand and one objections could be raised against the system, but when the objections are dissipated, I am convinced that some form of Federal Government will be the only solution’” – S.W.R.D.Bandaranaike […]
By Upul Joseph Fernando Southern extremists are now attempting to gain undue political advantage of the recent visit by the Norwegian Foreign Minister who was on a brief visit to Colombo. These extremists used anti-Norway slogans […]
ast week Defence Secretary Karunasena Hettiarachchi acknowledged that ‘at least 36 Sri Lankans have gone to Syria’and that ‘some of them have joined the ISIS’. That was after the Sunday Times reported in the previous […]
The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), which in 1983 was accused of attacking Tamils, today recognised the legitimate concerns of the Tamils in the North. Speaking in Parliament today, JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake said that […]
