Category: Local News

– By Shenali Waduge – With the UN Human Rights Council sessions in Geneva currently taking place it is a perfect time to explore India’s end of the bargain vis a vis the plebiscite promised for Kashmir to decide its right to self-determination. Kashmir’s fate has been lying in the hands of India for over […]

Washington: The US is going ahead with its resolution against Sri Lanka at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva as the Rajapaksa government has failed to fulfill its international obligations, which it promised after the fall of the LTTE, the Obama Administration said. […]

A Buddhist monk from Sri Lanka was assaulted by three unidentified persons on board the Tamil Nadu Express, just as it arrived at Chennai Central Railway Station on Monday. […]

– Submitted by Walter Jayawardhana – NEW DELHI: The resolution in the UN Human Rights Council against Sri Lanka is “uncalled for” and the international community should not get involved in the country, Sri Lanka high commissioner to India Prasad Kariyawasam said on Monday. […]

– Submitted by Walter Jayawardhana – DMK President M. Karunanidhi on Sunday issued a final warning to Congress-led UPA Government saying that the DMK would certainly leave the alliance if India fails to take steps to incorporate suitable amendments to the draft resolution to be placed before the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). […]

By Janaka Alahapperuma – (Pix by: Sudath Silva) Sri Lanka’s second airport, Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport (MRIA), ceremoniously declared open today on 18 March at 10.54 am by President Mahinda Rajapaksa. […]

– Submitted by Walter Jayawardhana – BEIJING: Newly-elected Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday offered his support in protecting Sri Lanka’s national sovereignty, hinting at Beijing’s backing to stave off a US-backed resolution against the country at UN Human Rights Council. […]

– Submitted by Walter Jayawardhana – Away from the current political turmoil, in the quiet hills of Sri Lanka, plans are afoot to build a temple for goddess Sita at Divurumpola, near Nuwara-Eliya, a place believed to be associated with the Ramayana. […]

There are no suitable words to condemn the manner in which India has stooped to such low depths as to attack a Sri Lankan Buddhist monk visiting a temple.

Exclusive interview by Janaka Alahapperuma from London The Hambantota Mahinda Rajapaksa International Airport (MRIA) is Sri Lanka’s second international airport, with its wondrous new sky gate which has currently finished in its 1st phase. The official opening to the nation will be on 18 March 2013. I had a very rare opportunity to talk directly to […]

– Submitted by Walter Jayawardhana – COLOMBO: Sri Lankan immigration authorities have deported a British national who had arrived on holiday to the island. […]

A Sri Lankan Buddhist monk, Pathberiye Gnanaloka Thero, was assaulted by members of Tamil outfits at the Big Temple in Thanjavur, in Tiruchi, India on Saturday. […]

Customs and excise officials yesterday forced open two 40-foot containers and found 210 barrels comprising 62,000 liters of contraband ethyl alcohol imported from Vietnam under the guise of thinner. […]

– Submitted by Walter Jayawardhana – DMK president M. Karunanidhi on Saturday expressed his disappointment over the Centre’s silence on announcing its stand on the US-sponsored draft resolution against Sri Lankan in the United Nations Human Rights Council for its war crimes. […]

  – By Shenali Waduge – Now is a good time for the Sri Lankan Tamils to finally break their silence. For far too long they have either been silenced or chosen to be silent. Silence has played a pivotal role in the lives of the Tamils throughout the conflict. Now they have the opportunity […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa will commission Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport on March 18. This is the second International Airport in Sri Lanka and the first ever Sri Lankan International Airport to be operated as an International Airport ‘from the day of commencing operations’, Civil Aviation Minister Priyankara Jayaratne said. […]