Category: Local News

– By Shenali Waduge – Just as we accept that India is Sri Lanka’s largest trading partner, that we remain grateful to King Ashoka for gifting us the benevolence and compassion associated with Buddhism. All that is true but that does not mean India should plan and train groups from Sri Lanka into militants to […]

– Submitted by Walter Jayawardhana – On the morning of March 19, the DMK headquarters witnessed celebrations usually reserved for big electoral victories. DMK patriarch M Karunanidhi had chosen to “honour” Tamil sentiments and pulled the plug on the UPA government at the Centre over its unwillingness to take on Sri Lanka over alleged war […]

– Submitted by Walter Jayawardhana – With uncertainty looming over the participation of the Sri Lankan players in Chennai, the IPL matches here might be shifted out of Tamil Nadu. […]

Following the one-day token fast observed by Tamil Nadu Film Directors’ Association (TANTIS) and Film Employees’ Federation of South India (FEFSI) on March 19, it is now the turn of the Nadigar Sangam to go on a strike in support of Sri Lankan Tamils. […]

The pressure exerted by the US sponsored resolution adopted at the UNHRC in Geneva  would not be of assistance for a political solution to the Tamil issue, EPDP Secretary  General Douglas Devananda said. […]

The ‘Students Federation for Free Eelam’ will petition to the Commissioner of Police urging him not to grant permission for conducting the IPL cricket match in Chennai if Sri Lankan players participate in it. […]

– Submitted by Walter Jayawardhana – Time has not healed the wounds Sonali Deraniyagala suffered when rising waters of the devastating Indian Ocean tsunami engulfed her eight years ago on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, killing her parents, her husband and her two young sons while leaving her stunned and speechless on a mud […]

– Submitted by Walter Jayawardhana – After being silent on an issue of global importance for years, Congress president Sonia Gandhi spoke the bitter truth on Sri Lanka the other day. But she spoke, sadly, only half the truth. […]

– Shenali Waduge – The Rajapakse Government needs to take a reality check without delay. The US and allies inclusive of India are not concerned about the Sinhalese, Tamils, Muslims or how many died, disappeared or were resettled or the scale of development taking place. These are all smokescreens to hide the true agenda. They […]

– By Shenali Waduge – India demands Sri Lanka holds a “credible investigation”. Sri Lanka must oblige India. That investigation must cover two important aspects. Firstly, it must cover India’s role in creating, training, financing and supporting the LTTE as a terrorist movement and India’s war crimes committed on Sri Lankan citizens by the IPKF. […]

Three persons were killed following an accident involving a tipper truck and a three-wheeler in the Dematagala area in Udawalawa this morning. […]

– By Janaka Alahapperuma – (Pix By : Chandana Perera) – President Mahinda Rajapaksa declared open the new Kalladi Bridge which links the Batticaloa and the Ampara Districts on Friday afternoon (22 March). It is another dream of the people of the East has been realized by opening this new Bridge after elimination of terrorism. […]

– Submitted by Walter Jayawardhana – Demanding a referendum on the Tamil Eelam issue and an independent enquiry by the international community into the war crimes in Sri Lanka, over 700 villagers of Kalingapatti, birthplace of Marumalarchi Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam general secretary Vaiko, observed a fast in their hamlet on Friday. […]

– Submitted by Walter Jayawardhana – NEW DELHI: Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy today accused the Centre of not taking a clear stand at the United Nations Human Rights Council when the US-sponsored resolution against Sri Lanka was put to vote. […]

– By Walter Jayawardhana – The younger brother of jailed hedge fund manager Sri Lankan born Raja Rajaratnam has been charged by US prosecutors with conspiring in an insider trading scheme to cheat on Wall Street to earn nearly $1.2 million illegally. […]

Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa said yesterday that the strong statement issued by India at the UN Council session raising accountability issues at war came both as a surprise and a big disappointment. […]