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Day: 22 August 2016

Exposing MIG deal resulted in Lasantha’s death: Rajitha

22/08/201622/08/2016 Karu

Journalist Lasantha Wickrematunge was mysteriously killed soon after he revealed the corrupt deal involving the purchase of MIG jets during the previous regime, Health and Indigenous Minister Dr. Rajitha Senaratne said. “Although the value of […]

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

Australian govt. never recognised ‘Tamil Eelam’ as a separate country: HC Hutchesson

22/08/201622/08/2016 Karu

Australian High Commissioner (HC) Bruce Hutchesson has responded to the Sunday Times following last week’s page 1 lead story “Australia lists Tamil Eelam in census”, stating that, what happened was that internal guidelines of the […]

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

Why hiding secrets, Anura asks President

22/08/201622/08/2016 Karu

President Maithripala Sirisena must reveal the secrets that he knows, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake says. The observation was made while he was speaking to reporters in Colombo this afternoon (22). Dissanayake was […]

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

North Sri Lankan CM Wigneswaran boycotts Investment Forum organized by Governor

22/08/201622/08/2016 Karu

COLOMBO: The Chief Minister of the Tamil-majority Northern Province,  C.V.Wigneswaran,   boycotted  the International Investment Forum organized by the  Northern Province Governor Reginold  Cooray  in Jaffna on Monday. In a letter written to Cooray last week, […]

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

Ganesan wants list

22/08/201622/08/2016 Karu

By Sulochana Ramiah Mohan Minister of National Dialogue and Co-existence, Mano Ganesan last Friday demanded for the list of names of those ex-LTTE cadres, who Tamil politicians claimed had been poisoned during rehabilitation after the war […]

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

Sri Lanka’s National Policy Document on Rehabilitation Recommends Comprehensive Legal Framework

22/08/201622/08/2016 Karu

COLOMBO: The Sri Lankan Ministry of Rehabilitation has recommended, through its National Policy Document, the enactment of a comprehensive law that addresses all displaced persons and communities in order to be prepared for any eventuality […]

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

Alleged deaths, illnesses of ex-LTTE cadres: Five member committee to assist probe

22/08/201622/08/2016 Karu

Northern Province Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswaran has appointed a five member medical committee to assist in an investigation into the alleged deaths and illnesses of some ex-LTTE cadres during and since their time in rehabilitation. […]

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

We’re Giving Government Our Fullest Support – D. Sidharthan

22/08/201622/08/2016 Karu

by Thushari Nathaniel PLOT leader and TNA MP D. Sidharthan says he has confidence in the current regime that it will deliver justice to the Tamil people. He said that even though the government has […]

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

‘Tamil diaspora can help rebuild Sri Lanka’

22/08/201622/08/2016 Karu

Visiting MPs from the island nation say there is an opportunity to find a permanent solution to the ethnic issue An atmosphere conducive to find a permanent political solution to the Sri Lankan Tamil issue […]

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

Kilinochchi-Mullaitivu residents demand OMP for North

22/08/201622/08/2016 Karu

Residents of Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu districts staged a protest on Thursday claiming that the setting up of the Office on Missing Persons (OMP) in Colombo, will not be beneficial to the people in the North. […]

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

IDPs in Jaffna to be resettled by year-end

22/08/201622/08/2016 Karu

The number of such landless families in Jaffna is 936, according to the Resettlement Ministry The Sri Lanka government will complete the resettlement of landless internally-displaced persons (IDP) in the Jaffna district by year-end. According […]

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