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Month: May 2017

Mahinda Rajapaksa’s Nocturnal Rendezvous With Narendra Modi

25/05/201725/05/2017 Karu

by D.B.S.Jeyaraj Vesak festivity in Sri Lanka acquired an international dimension this year with the Island nation hosting the United Nations International Vesak day. The icing on this Vesak event cake was the participation of […]

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

New Constitution will turn Sri Lanka into a de-facto confederation within a federation

25/05/201725/05/2017 Karu

By Dayan Jayatilleka – Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka As confirmed by Dr. Jehan Perera’s latest column, the PM disclosed in Mannar that Indian Prime Minister Modi had urged him, President Sirisena and ex-Presidents Kumaratunga and Rajapaksa […]

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

Implement the law properly, that will solve half the problems

25/05/201725/05/2017 Karu

   BY SHAAHIDAH RIZA If the law was implemented equally amongst all, the extremist elements will be contained and reconciliation can be achieved said United Peoples Freedom Alliance (UPFA) MP Mahinda Yapa Abeywardene. In an […]

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

No one pretends the situation is perfect

24/05/2017 Karu

What we want in return is for Sri Lanka to honour the commitment that it’s already made on human rights, labour rights and environmental standards EU consumers demand high standards and we make no apology […]

By Karuna

Today, the plight of Sri Lankan Tamils is worse than that in the 80s

24/05/201724/05/2017 Karu

Today, Eelam is heard only in the occasional slogans of a few regional parties like the MDMK, PMK and VCK In public sphere too, the cause doesn’t elicit the response it did a couple of […]

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

Mahinda, Mathiri or Ranil are politicians and will never implement their promises, as they are true followers of Lord Buddha

23/05/201723/05/2017 Karu

Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe today called for unity in the country saying there cannot be room for another war but was not prepared to give powers to the provincial councils as per the Sri Lankan […]

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

British politicians call for a stop to continuing genocide of Tamils in Sri Lanka

23/05/201723/05/2017 Karu

At the Mullivaikal Genocide (Sri Lanka) Remembrance Day 2017 held at the Hyde Park, London on the 18th of May 2017, organised by the British Tamils Forum, several British politicians called for an end to […]

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

Resettled Tamils complain increased harassments by SL military at Kudumpi-malai

23/05/201723/05/2017 Karu

[TamilNet, Saturday, 20 May 2017, 22:09 GMT] The deployment of Sinhala military belonging to 232 Brigade Headquarters of the occupying Sinhala military at Kudumpi-malai (which is also known as Thoppik-kal and Baron’s Cap) in the […]

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

Northern Province Development: My Preferences

23/05/201723/05/2017 Karu

By C.V. Wigneswaran – C.V. Wigneswaran A few years ago a group of officials from the Northern Provincial Council met a farmer in Vavuniya and asked for his preferences in respect of some matter. The […]

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

Victory over Remembrance: A day of division

23/05/201723/05/2017 Karu

Featured image by Raisa Wickrematunge On May 18, 2009, Sri Lanka ended a decade long civil war. The day after, May 19, has traditionally been celebrated as “Victory Day” and marked with military parades. That […]

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

Reversing the growing trust deficit in the North

23/05/201723/05/2017 Karu

By Jehan Perera During the period of the previous government May 18 became a day of tension in the North. The previous government celebrated the war victory over the LTTE in the South of the […]

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

Resolving the National Question: Where is the key?

23/05/201723/05/2017 Karu

By Sumanasiri Liyanage “We all know the old joke about a guy looking for his lost key under the street light; when asked where he lost it, he admits that it was in a dark […]

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

Probe Commissions now just name boards – ACF

23/05/201723/05/2017 Karu

Many extremely corrupt individuals who carried out thieving to the maximum in the Mahinda Government were given Cabinet Ministry posts on behalf of the SLFP because of the government of good governance. They are doing […]

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

Trump trumped by media he threatened

23/05/201723/05/2017 Karu

During his presidential election campaign last year the ever-loquacious and unpredictable Donald Trump threatened to change Washington which he called a swamp.  Not even four months after occupying the Oval Office Trump is sinking in […]

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

GSP plus: Renewed opportunities and policy imperatives

23/05/201723/05/2017 Karu

The European Union’s decision last week to restore the GSP plus concession allows Sri Lankan exports tariff free entry to its 28 countries. This could be a turning point in the country’s trade as the […]

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

Gnanasara Shows Police He Is Above The Law, As Muslim Owned Shops And A Mosque Attacked In Kurunegala

22/05/201722/05/2017 Karu

An incident in Kurunegala last night showed how the notorious Bodu Bala Sena’s (BBS) General Secretary Galagoda Atte Gnanasara was above the law, amidst claims by the hardcore Buddhist group that their supporters thwarted attempts […]

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

Federalism Is Good For The North, But Better For The South!

22/05/201722/05/2017 Karu

By Veluppillai Thangavelu – Veluppillai Thangavelu On April 26, 2017 Dr. Rajitha Senaratne, Minister of Health, Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine delivered the keynote address at the SJV Chelvanayakam’s 40th death anniversary commemoration held at Kathiresan Hall, Bambalapitiya. The […]

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

8th year candle light vigil will happen as planned

21/05/201721/05/2017 Karu

PM Modi  wants all protests in Tamil Nadu against Sri Lankan government stopped, and Weak Tamilnadu government agrees after a deal of NOT dissolving the current government NOT taking any action against corruption by MP’s.  MAY 17 […]

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

Apart From Grandstanding Internationally, cheating Sri Lankan Govt Must Deliver at Home By Expediting Re-settlement of War Displaced People

20/05/201720/05/2017 Karu

By Meera Srinivasan After 20 years in India, wearing a “refugee” tag that led her from one camp to another, it was only in December 2016 that Edward Selyn, 55, returned home. Until a few days […]

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

Chief Minister Wigneswaran Says He Wont Let North Be Used as a “Vassal Province For The Benefit Of Wayward Investors”.

20/05/201720/05/2017 Karu

The Chief Minister of Sri Lanka’s Tamil-majority Northern Province, C.V.Wigneswaran, has said that his administration would not like industries coming up in the province to use locally available resources and would want them to deploy […]

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

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