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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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
The Disaster Management and Human Rights Ministry states that the US State Department’s 2009 Country Report on Human Rights Practices pertaining to Sri Lanka was a conflation of historical background, repetition of statements in earlier reports, unverified assertions and falls short of the high standards that the State Department professes to uphold. Issuing a release in response to the Marc...
- Of human rights fig leaves (Category: Breaking News)
- Winning the global battle (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka / human rights defenders (Category: Breaking News)
- What has the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) actually achieved? (Category: Breaking News)
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