Tamil Nadu Chief Minister O. Panneerselvam on Thursday sought Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s intervention to secure 75 fishing boats from the custody Sri Lankan authorities. […]

Latin American socially oriented governments have rejected IMF’s neo-liberal policies after realizing that neither IMF nor World Bank have any solutions or wish to give any solutions to raise developing nations from their poverty. Have the World Bank or IMF raised a single developing nation to a developed level to date through their policies and […]

The All Ceylon Nurses’ Union (ACNU) is demanding that the government allocate 5% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to the health sector in Budget 2015. […]

Appearing on the 1st October 2008 website of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation is a request by the US to Tame the Tigers from the US. The brief describes LTTE’s resume as perfecting the use of suicide bombers, inventing suicide belts, pioneering the use of women for suicide attacks and FBI says that the […]

At least one person was killed and another 55 injured when a bus plunged into a precipice at Teldeniya on the Kandy-Mahiyanganaya road a short while ago, police said […]

LTTE ground force including its leader were defeated in May 2009. LTTE remains banned in 32 countries even 5 years after its defeat. LTTE did not fight with sticks or stones but became a terrorist movement with its own aerial and naval wing with suicide cadres and Eelam bank issuing its own currency/notes, had its […]

The European Commission proposed a ban on imports of fish from Sri Lanka for not tackling illegal fishing properly and lifted a ban on fish imports from Belize following the reform of its vessel inspection practices. […]

The validity of an Australian law used to detain 157 Tamil asylum seekers at sea in June is under the spotlight in the High Court in Canberra. The group, which included 50 children, set out from Pondicherry in India after fleeing Sri Lanka some time earlier. […]

The government, that has a serious social media phobia, will attempt to prevent people from accessing Facebook as the presidential election draws near, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) MP Vijitha Herath said. […]

A ceremony was organised on October 13, 2014 to mark the inauguration of the Pallai-Jaffna reconstructed railway track and signal system. The ceremony was graced by Mahinda Rajapaksa, President of Sri Lanka, Kumara Welgama, Minister of Transport, Douglas Devananda, Minister of Traditional Industries and Small Enterprises Development, Y. K. Sinha, High Commissioner of India, Rohana […]

Yal Devi, which is currently running between Colombo and Palai, will be extended to Jaffna from today (13) under the patronage of President Mahinda Rajapaksa. […]

We are talking about sterling pounds 5000-6000 being paid to be burnt with cigarette butt ends and face other tortures to enable British doctors to verify health records and endorse the torture as being ‘recent’ and to imply the tortures/rape were committed by the Sri Lankan forces. The monetary aspect fattens the purses of those […]

The Department of Excise today said that the price of arrack has been increased by Rs 90 per proof litre with effect from October 10. The price of beer with over 5% alcohol has been increased by Rs 15 while beer with less than 5% alcohol has been hikes by Rs 10. […]

The UNP, on Friday, proposed and seconded Party Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe as the common candidate from the single largest Opposition political party. When the 20-member committee, appointed to assist in the presidential election, met, deputy leader Sajith Premadasa asked Wickremesinghe whether he could confirm his intention to be the Party’s presidential candidate. The UNP leader […]

India was the first to proscribe the LTTE in 1992. US came next in 1997. UK followed in 2001. EU did so in 2006. Thereafter, the International Community began on LTTE fronts. US proscribed the Tamil Rehabilitation Organization in 2008, the Tamil Foundation in 2009. Canada proscribed the World Tamil Movement in 2008, France banned […]

UNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe has told Opposition Leader of the Uva Provincial Council Harin Fernando that naming a prime ministerial candidate in the run-up to the forthcoming presidential election is not realistic as the party was campaigning for the abolition of the executive presidency. […]