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The BBC Sinhala Service, in asking for comments on the 2010 US Report on Human Rights in Sri Lanka, gave me little notice, and suggested I could just glance through the synopsis with which the report began. As it happened, I was able to look through some of the rest, which was good, because I ...
- Make preparations count (Category: Business)
- Wanting in credibility (Category: Breaking News)
- Improprieties in the Sri Lanka section of US State Dept report (Category: Breaking News)
- Govt. readies for next UN session with national plan for human rights (Category: Business)
by Amarnath Amarasingam The recent revelation that members of the federal and provincial Conservative Party have been getting into bed with former members of the World Tamil Movement (WTM), banned as a terrorist organization in Canada since 2008, was not...
- Tigers not a factor any more says Canadian Tamil Activist (Category: Breaking News)
- Group of Canadian parliamentarians schedule to visit SriLanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Canadian PM under attack over candidates alleged Tamil Tiger links (Category: Breaking News)
- Mr Harper should be 'ashamed' of MV Sun Sea ad and Tamil refugees - Bob Rae (Category: Breaking News)
by Anthony Reinhart Tories trying to win support from South Asians in Ontario have opened the door to remnants of a Tamil Tiger front group the federal Conservatives themselves banned in 2008. The unlikely association, forged behind a curtain of...
- Conservative Party gets entangled in post May 2009 Tamil diaspora politics in Ontario (Category: Breaking News)
- Harper brushes off questions over Tamil candidate Paranchothy who praised terrorist group LTTE (Category: Breaking News)
- Lankan origin candidate claims he had no sympathy for terrorists (Category: Breaking News)
- Canada: More furore over personalised stamps bearing Tamil Tiger symbols (Category: Breaking News)
The Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (TRC) today cautioned people to not be deceived by welfare related hoax text messages sent by anonymous sources which claim that if the receiver forwards the...
18 Days That Shook The World How People Power Worked By Charles Levinson And Margaret Coker Hosni Mubarak was thrust by violence into the leadership of the Arab world’s most populous country, and has been forced out by a wave of popular protest. Stability had been the watchword of his presidency, with emergency law — ...
- U.S. is both angel, devil for Egyptian protesters (Category: USA, South Carolina)
- Egypt soccer violence kills 74, fans turn on army (Category: Business)
- Chaos erupts in Cairo as Mubarak supporters attack protesters (Category: USA, South Carolina)
- Egyptian Peoples Revolt Has Deep Lessons For Both Oppressed and Oppressor in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
by IRIN News COLOMBO, 12 January 2011 (IRIN) - Ongoing storms have dumped more rain in one eastern district of Sri Lanka than witnessed in a century, according to the country's Disaster Management Centre (DMC). Nationwide, storms have hit some...
- SRI LANKA: Record rains increase urgency of climate change adaptation (Category: Breaking News)
- Council mergers 'short-sighted' (Category: South Australia)
- Better weather warnings needed (Category: Business)
- Climate talks 'too close to call' (Category: Technology)
By Indi Samarajiva Mark Zuckerberg was recently named TIME magazine’s person of the year. This comes as no surprise to the over 500 million people who know him impersonally as the founding head of their online social network, Facebook. It does, however, disappoint supporters of WikiLeak’s Julian Assange, another strong contender. They both have something ...
- Mark Zuckerberg named Time 'Person of Year' (Category: USA, South Carolina)
- Status update: Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg gets married (Category: Business)
- After Zuckerberg talks, Facebook gains $ 6.8 billion (Category: Business)
- Facebook shares plumb new depths, valuation questioned (Category: Business)
On December 9th, the late Sujith Prasanna Perera was given the National Integrity Award by Transparency International. It is perhaps telling that our bearer of integrity is dead. Sujith Perera died for fighting fraud within the Customs Department. His murderers were convicted, but he could not be replaced. More tellingly, his attitude of taking risks ...
- Letters to the editor (Category: Business)
- Diana Gamage gets admitted to hospital following alleged assault (Category: Breaking News)
- Constitutional changes must not be done in secrecy or in haste (Category: Breaking News)
- Diana Gamage and 2 SJB MPs suspended from parliament for one month (Category: Breaking News)
By Indi Samarajiva Behind every conspiracy, there’s a Private First Class, getting the coffee. There have always been leaks. WikiLeaks is just a digital bucket. The Leaks Bradley Manning had been busted down to Private First Class for assaulting an officer. It was the latest in a series of troubles for the 22 year old ...
- Assange calls on US to end witchhunt against WikiLeaks and release Manning (Category: Breaking News)
- Can Wikileaks Lead To Transparency In Diplomacy? (Category: Breaking News)
- Can Wikileaks Hurt America? (Category: Breaking News)
- Wiki-leaker to be court martialed (Category: Breaking News)
by Tisaranee Gunasekara Basil Rajapaksa is unabashed in claiming that in Sri Lanka an era of ‘ruler kings’ has begun. Western ideas of transparency, he claims, along with limits of presidential power and accountability, are not relevant to ‘Asian Culture’.”...
- Compliance with Rajapaksas is the only way to prosper in the Rajapaksa - Land (Category: Breaking News)
- Stop intimidating judiciary,end undermining democracy,hold elections (Category: Breaking News)
- DNA to inundate President with messages for SFs release (Category: Breaking News)
- A True Democratic Leadership (Category: Breaking News)
(Lanka-e-News, 09.Nov.2010, 10.40PM) A senior DIG who wished to remain anonymous speaking to Lanka e news said , the IGP should shoulder the full blame for the stupid and blind raid conducted by the...
By Gazala Anver Construction on the illegal bungalow built by the Air Force Commander, Roshan Goonetilleke in Sudugalla, Knuckles, an environmentally protected area, is still continuing, alleges Programmes Manager, Sri Lanka Nature Forum, Sajeewa Chamikara. According to Chamikara, construction has been going on for over a month now. “Minister Faiser Mustapha went to see the ...
- Air Force Commander Lays Siege To A World Heritage Site (Category: Breaking News)
- Knuckles Committee Yet To Decide (Category: Breaking News)
- SLAF deploy helicopter to douse Knuckles Range fire (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lankan government to take over hotel built by former Air Force Commander in World Heritage S... (Category: Breaking News)
THAT the second testing of his urine sample might clear Manju Wanniarachchi of any wrongdoing and so restore his Commonwealth Games gold medal is pretty much a hope that rides on the wings of a prayer. The truth though is, hardly ever does the result of a second examination (for banned substance in the system ...
- Manju makes Dian’s dream come true (Category: Breaking News)
- Kicking A Fallen Boxer Is No Clean Up Job (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka wins historic Gold (Category: Breaking News)
- Delayed AGM Leaves New ABA With A Heavy Backlog (Category: Breaking News)
We are a group of concerned citizens including university academics who are writing this letter to express our concern over the incident reported in The Sunday Leader of September 19 and 26, 2010. According to these reports the Vice Chancellor of the University of Sri Jayewardenepura sent six female students in a university vehicle to ...
- J’pura VC under house arrest (Category: Breaking News)
- SL Uni Students Protest Against VC (Category: Breaking News)
- Tense Situation At J’pura Uni (Category: Breaking News)
- Suspension issued on 109 Jpura students removed (Category: Breaking News)
Two weeks ago, Dr Dayan Jayatilleka alleged that I had drafted a constitutional amendment in the 1970s in an abortive attempt to enable Mrs Bandaranaike to extend her term of office. Last week, in an article in which he transported...
- Defending the indefensible: Rejoinder to Dr. Nihal Jayawickrama (Category: Breaking News)
- Abolishing The Executive Presidency – Is Time Running Out? (Category: Breaking News)
- The burial of democracy - A response to Dr Dayan Jayatilaka’s spurious allegation (Category: Breaking News)
- The Mother of all discontents (Category: Breaking News)
NOT that our little world of sport was at peace with itself last week and so free of issues that might warrant critical scrutiny. If there was such bliss for seven straight days, then, it must’ve been in some other land; over here (where, as the popular joke says, God deems it unnecessary to station ...
- The Ring Is A Women’s World (Category: Breaking News)
- Indo-Lanka Dual Next Week (Category: Breaking News)
- Anusha Hits Road To London (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lankan boxer Nilmini Jayasinghe targets 2012 Olympics (Category: Breaking News)
Government officials in the Vavuniya, Kilinochchi and Mullaitivu districts yesterday said that they get a number of complaints from people who have returned to the country after a lapse of 20- 25 years over the illegal occupation of their lands. Lands taken over by the LTTE were distributed among Mahaveer families by them during the time of the Ceasefire Agreement. The UNF Government had issued t...
- Arid Niger desert is 'Noah's ark' (Category: Technology)
- Army owns 1033 lands and houses in Jaffna district (Category: Breaking News)
- Plane belly lands at Brisbane Airport (Category: Australia, Queensland)
- Low lands of Jaffna peninsula submerged with flood water (Category: Breaking News)
By Tisaranee Gunasekara “Today there was total confusion in Sri Rajapaksistan (formerly Sri Lanka) when thousands and thousands of people changed their name to “Rajapaksa” to get into Parliament or even get a job… Hospital authorities report that all new...
- Sri Lanka debates on constitutional reforms (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka parliament approves constitutional reforms with two-third majority (Category: Breaking News)
- UNP, JVP scared to face another Presidential Poll - CP Governor (Category: Breaking News)
- The 18th Amendment and the reawakening of President Rajapaksa (Category: Breaking News)
By Anushka Gunawardena President Mahinda Rajapaksa at a meeting with editors and publishers last Monday, September 7th at Temple Trees, produced a copy of an affidavit claiming to be from the Samurdhi officer where he had said he had willingly asked to be tied to a tree, based on Silva having threatened to do so if ...
- Mervyn testifies (Category: Breaking News)
- Silva’s Disciplinary Inquiry Continues (Category: Breaking News)
- Committee concludes probe on Mervin, final report next week (Category: Breaking News)
- Mervin not guilty, decides committee (Category: Breaking News)
by Dushiyanthini Kanagasabapathipillai “To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure. But risk must be taken because the greatest hazard is to risk nothing” – Anonymous...
- In Pictures: One of the oldest Hindu Women's School in Sri Lanka marks 80th Anniversary (Category: Breaking News)
- "Kaballeva" in Kandy: Rare photos of a Sri Lankan armadillo (Category: Breaking News)
- In Pictures: GLF ~ 5th Galle Literary Festival commences (Category: Breaking News)
- Ramakrishna Mission, Batticaloa appeals for flood relief helping hands (Category: Breaking News)
YOU’D expect players to be climbing over each others’ shoulders to get a slice of the action at a National Championship, especially one with a rich history, like that of tennis. There was no desperate scramble, though, to get on court for the ongoing 95th Tennis Nationals, an annual tournament so immersed in tradition that ...
- First Capital SSC Open Ranking Tennis Championships 2023 begin (Category: Breaking News)
- Airtel Lanka dials support for 97th Colombo Championships 2012 (Category: Business)
- Biology teacher Rukshika wins tennis double (Category: Breaking News)
- Can exhausted junior players hold their fitness at open badminton nationals? (Category: Breaking News)
By a special correspondent Exclusive to BBC Sinhala service The alert and watchful eyes of weary soldiers scanned every vehicle passing through the checkpoints. Broken, torn buildings tower over the tiny UNHCR tents on the gardens and court yards. Hanging...
- Tamil anxiety over Army camps changing demography in N-E (Category: Breaking News)
- U.K. Tamil Activist "Moved" by Sonia Gandhi's Gesture (Category: Breaking News)
- Police beefs up security (Category: Breaking News)
- Police beefs up security (Category: Breaking News)
By Hilal Suhaib (islandcricket.lk/blogs/hilal) Last week I was forwarded several emails from an anonymous source. These emails included an email from a Roy Bishop of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka which was sent to various news agencies, journalist, ICC officials, officials of other Test playing countries
- Murali – Symbol Of A Resurgent Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Thanks Murali, For Our Triumphs And Your Legacy (Category: Breaking News)
- Being captain would have been a burden for me - Murali (Category: Breaking News)
- Murali Bites Back (Category: Breaking News)
A group of 76 undocumented immigrants from Central America and Sri Lanka were rescued with signs of dehydration from inside a semi-trailer left abandoned in the southeastern state of Chiapas in Mexico, an official source said. The semitrailer was found at Kilometer 21 (Mile 13) on the Villaflores-Ocozocoautla highway, the Chiapas delegation of the federal Attorney General’s Office said. An...
by Melani Manel Perera On 17 July, masked men wielding weapons destroyed the homes of residents in Panama and Ragamvila, two coastal villages in northeastern Sri Lanka. Police and troops who now occupy the area have prevented residents from coming...
- 919 villages of Sri Lanka lack deeds to verify land ownership (Category: Breaking News)
- Retirement villages call in receivers (Category: South Australia)
- Police landmine assistance mission (Category: Western Australia)
- SL's half million mines to take a decade to clear (Category: Breaking News)
Foreign news reports quoting an official source have stated that a group of 76 undocumented immigrants from Central America and Sri Lanka were rescued with signs of dehydration from inside a semi-trailer left abandoned in the southeastern state of Chiapas in Mexico. The Latin America Herald Tribune has quoted the Chiapas delegation of the federal ...
- Immigrants get help from states, cheer inclusion in US bill (Category: USA, New Mexico)
- Immigrants get help from states, cheer inclusion in US bill (Category: USA, New Mexico)
- Immigrants get help from states, cheer inclusion in US bill (Category: USA, New Mexico)
- Caught (Category: Business)
by Frederica Jansz Since the bloody 30 year war ended in a shoot-out in a remote mangrove in the North, in Colombo we have all been enjoying a semblance of peace. Of course there are yet no strong institutions which would boost Sri Lanka’s democracy. Good discipline is sadly lacking at all levels for peace ...
- Investment opportunities in Sri Lanka expanded, President informs Japanese delegation (Category: Breaking News)
- Sinhala symbols, war, peace and ethnic reconciliation in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘SL from a nation of war to amongst the most peaceful’ (Category: Breaking News)
- LLRC was for reconciliation, not to create divisions – President Rajapaksa (Category: Business)
Mahinda Rajapaksa’s Peoples Alliance and Ranil Wickremesinghe’s main opposition UNP have agreed, in principle, to alter the Constitution to create an Executive Prime Minister post. In 1978, J.R. Jayawardene used his majority to replace a British-style Parliamentary system with a French-style Parliament plus Executive Presidency. Now it seems that Mahinda is using his majority to ...
- Ranil, opposition talks (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka may shed presidential system in reform package (Category: Breaking News)
- Mahinda and Ranil engage in engagement of convenience (Category: Breaking News)
- UNP for executive PM (Category: Breaking News)
HARDtalk - Sri Lanka Part 1 - The Tamils and the North: Hardtalk on the road in Sri Lanka: In May 2009, after almost 30 years of civil war, Sri Lanka's government announced its defeat of the separatist Liberation Tigers...
- Louise Arbour on the responses thus far to ICG report on Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- “Our military was a highly disciplined military.” - Gotabaya Rajapaksa (Category: Breaking News)
- යුද හමුදාව – කැන්ඩි කස්ටම්ස් ජය වාර්තා කරති (Category: Sports)
- Interviews with Mr. Robert Templer of ICG and Dr. A.R.M. Imtiyaz, Temple University (Category: Breaking News)
By Emil van der Poorten I have had some feedback subsequent to the recent piece I did on some exceptional athletes of the ’50s at Trinity, urging me to put more reminiscences on paper. What I propose doing this week is to talk about the culture that Norman Walter, Principal of Trinity College, Kandy from 1952 to [...]
- Talibanization Of Trinity (Category: Breaking News)
- Royalists Came With A Will To Win (Category: Breaking News)
- Cedric Oorloff and his stature (Category: Business)
- Trinity College rugby powered by Zesta Pure Ceylon Tea (Category: Business)
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