Category: Local News

A United States diplomat has expressed alarm at a rising anti-Muslim campaign in Sri Lanka and warned that such sentiments should not be allowed to fester. […]

– Submitted by Walter Jayawardhana – Tamil Tigers might have threatened the then Chief Minister, M. Karunanidhi, in 1989 “with a significant increase in the level of militant violence in Tamil Nadu” if he did not “boost their cause,” the United States surmised. […]

A number of areas were left without power following breakdowns at the Norochcholai coal fired power plant on Sunday and the Keralapitiya Combined Cycle plant yesterday. […]

– Submitted by Walter Jayawardhana – Sri Lanka on Monday reacted strongly to the recent Tamil Nadu assembly resolution against it, saying it was “disturbing” and asked the critics to visit the country to see the progress on the ground instead of going by “exaggerated” allegations of human rights abuses. […]

– Submitted by Walter Jayawardhana – CHENNAI: Union environment and forest Minister Jayanthi Natarajan has asked the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) to cancel a tour of Sri Lanka organized by it for a group of Indian parliamentarians to facilitate bilateral talks. […]

– by Walter Jayawardhana – The lead op-ed piece published by the Hindu in its latest edition said the resignation of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam from the United Progressive Alliance government is more likely that the party has used the Sri Lankan crisis to push for a separation from the UPA, because it is politically […]

Chennai, Apr 8: Finance Minister P Chidambaram has criticised Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for not supporting the UPA government’s efforts to pass a resolution in Parliament on the Sri Lankan Tamils issue. […]

The Lanka Private Bus Owners Association (LPBOA) yesterday announced that they would launch a one-day bus strike some time between April 20 – 30 if the authorities failed to increase the bus fares as requested by the bus owners. […]

  – Submitted by Walter Jayawardhana – Sri Lanka’s newly appointed Deputy High Commissioner to India has not been able to take up the post in Chennai due to a delay by Indian authorities in issuing the envoy a visa, a media report here claimed today. […]

– by Shenali Waduge – Open a Buddhist Desk at Sri Lanka External Affairs Ministry Nations and nation systems did not emerge without a history. Nations like Sri Lanka have a rich cultural and historical heritage they should not feel shy about. The modern day liberal secularists would profane a different notion but against the […]

– Submitted by Walter Jayawardhana – Sri Lankan Navy has arrested 30 more Indian fishermen for allegedly poaching in the country’s waters, taking the total number of those captured to 56 in the last two days. […]

– Submitted Walter Jayawardhana – COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s president on Sunday ordered an investigation into a mass grave dating back to a period when thousands of people disappeared during a crackdown on Marxist rebels, his spokesman said. […]

– Submitted by Walter Jayawardhana – MDMK general secretary Vaiko and New York-based Human Rights Watch made separate calls to assist 19 Tamils being readied to be deported to Colombo from the United Arab Emirates. […]

  – by Shenali Waduge – Ranil Wickremasinghe won parliamentary elections in December 2001 and within 2 months signed the ceasefire agreement placing a terrorist organization on par with a democratic government and virtually allowing the LTTE a carte blanche – an agreement like the Indo-Lanka Accord withheld from the People of Sri Lanka and […]

Decision before New Year The Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) on Friday denied reports of internal party rifts, but said members have called on the party high command to take a firm stand on the recent spate of anti-Muslim campaign and push the government to address the issue. […]

The Buddhist hardline organization Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) Friday said that the country’s fate would be changed within two months.  Addressing a press briefing held in Colombo, the secretary of BBS Ven. Galagodaaththe Gnanasara Thero said that a conference of Buddhist monks would be held soon to decide the future action. […]