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 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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
[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 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 […]
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 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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
