Category: Local News

Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa alleged that large scale foreign funding of NGOs operating in Sri Lanka would be inimical to ongoing post-war national reconciliation efforts hence, such projects should be resisted. […]

The Minister of Construction, Engineering Services, Housing and Common Amenities, Wimal Weerawansa and the Deputy Minister of External Affairs, Neomal Perera together with Sri Lanka`s Ambassador to Cuba (with concurrent accreditation to Venezuela), Sarath Dissanayake   represented the President, the Government and people of Sri Lanka at the State Funeral of the late President Hugo Chavez […]

– By Shenali Waduge – There is little doubt that both Prabakaran and Osama were leaders of 2 terrorist groups – feared and abhorred. Prabakaran headed the LTTE (Liberation of Tamil Tiger Eelaam) whilst Osama headed the Al Qaeda. Prabakaran’s death was announced on 18th May 2009 while Osama was killed on 2 May 2011. […]

– by Walter Jayawardhana – In a forthright and hard-hitting column published in its Sunday edition India’s Pioneer newspaper said  nothing would be more ruinous for India’s national interest if the Congress were to decide to force Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Minister for External Affairs Salman Khurshid to vote for the resolution against Sri […]

– Submitted by Walter Jayawardhana – Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday did not give any hint of India’s stance at the UNHRC resolution on Sri Lanka slated to be voted upon later this month, even as he asserted that India had pleaded to Colombo that there must be political reconciliation to bring peace to […]

– By Shenali Waduge – The British medical journal Lancet reported that the US-led unprovoked 2003 bombing, invasion and military take-over of Iraq—which NATO officially joined in 2004 in a ‘training’ capacity—had resulted in over 665,000 civilian deaths by 2006, and 200,000 in the UN-authorized, 1991 Desert Storm massacre led primarily by the US with […]

-Submitted by Walter Jayawardhana – Eight students of a city-based college have embarked on a ‘fast-unto-death’ here on the Sri Lankan Tamils issue. […]

– Submitted by Walter Jayawardhana – The US resolution on Sri Lanka, which was presented to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva on Friday, has incorporated India’s suggestion that the Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (OHCHR) take the island government into confidence while probing cases of atrocities. […]

– Submitted by Walter Jayawardhana – WASHINGTON: Janata Party chief Subramanian Swamy has asked the Obama Administration to undertake bilateral consultations with Colombo to work out a consensus on the draft of the alleged human rights violations in Sri Lanka proposed to be tabled in UNHRC in Geneva. […]

  – By Shenali Waduge – The “experts” and “authorities” must have their say and certainly their voice is far more powerful than a country as small as Sri Lanka. They are the ones that make the laws, they decide who the villains and the heroes are, they can make heroes into villains and villains […]

– Submitted by Walter Jayawardhana – A week before Sri Lanka’s human rights record comes up for review before a United Nations panel, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh advocated direct talks between Colombo and the Tamil leadership. […]

– By Janaka Alahapperuma – Pix By: Nalin Hewapathirana – President Mahinda Rajapaksa paid his respect to the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez this morning on 09 March by signing the book of condolence which is placed for the general public at the Embassy of Cuba at Anderson Road in Colombo. […]

On seeing reports in the media on 7 March 2013 on an incident of alleged firing at Indian fishermen by the Sri Lanka Navy off the Kodiakarai coast, an investigation has been carried out. It was revealed that Sri Lanka Naval vessels had not entered Indian waters at any time either on 6 or 7 […]

The U.S. State Department on Thursday announced that it would be awarding $500,000 each for two projects in Sri Lanka, one for increasing support and safety for journalists and a second for facilitating reconciliation on the island. […]

– By Shenali Waduge – In the current context of things it is imperative that we draw the lines between what and who are legal and what and who are not. With 32 nations including Sri Lanka having banned LTTE as a terrorist organization we would first like to have legal luminaries tell us what […]

– Submitted by Walter Jayawardhana – New Delhi: The DMK, which is the ruling Congress’ biggest ally in the UPA, today walked out of the Lok Sabha while External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid was speaking, to bring pressure on the government to vote against Sri Lanka on a resolution expected to be moved by the […]