On 18th May 2014, Sri Lanka celebrated the victory over the internationally banned terrorist movement LTTE. Sri Lanka has every right to celebrate the defeat of terrorism and the victory of peace. It came after 3 decades and the loss of civilian lives, military lives, assassinations of politicians, destruction of public property and affected the […]

(Reuters) – Minority ethic Tamils said on Sunday they had been banned from commemorating the deaths of their relatives five years ago in the final battle of a 26-year war with Sri Lanka’s military, a charge denied by the army. While President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who is under international pressure to investigate war crimes in the […]

The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna had a special meeting with Ven. Maduluwawe Sobhitha Thero on Sunday. […]

The United National Party (UNP) will present a no-confidence motion, against the government, in which they will also reveal the names of three prominent parliamentarians and one minister linked to the distribution of heroin. […]

Sri Lanka President Rajapaksa addressing the nation at the fifth anniversary Vicgtory Day celebrations said, that the great victory achieved by the security forces through great sacrifice of lives must be preserved and remembered by all. […]

The main suspect arrested  in connection with the abduction and murder of a Police Constable in Kurunegala was killed during a confrontation with Police at Ududumbara last night, Police said. […]

The fifth Victory Day celebrations will be held today on a grand scale in Samudra Mawatha, Matara. Troops of the Tri Services, police and Civil Defence Service personnel, Mechanised Columns and differently-abled soldiers in wheelchairs will take part in the parade. […]

A total of 17 university students have been arrested today during a protest in front of the University Grants Commission (UGC) in Colombo. […]

The Vice Chairman of China’s Central Military Commission Air Chief Marshal Xu Qiliang called on President Mahinda Rajapaksa this evening (16) at Temple Trees. The purpose of his visit, Mr. Xu said, is to further enhance the “strategic mutual trust” between China and Sri Lanka and  to elevate “relations between the two countries and the […]

– by Shenali D Waduge – India, that is Bharat, has elected its 16th Prime Minister in a historic election. He is none other than Shri Narendra Modi securing a virtual landslide victory in a mammoth election drawing 800million eligible voters. There has not been a clearer vote on Bharat’s choice of leader. It is […]

  Too many catastrophic events are occurring too close together and should make any to wonder if there is a pattern and more importantly whether those causing the events are the same people. On this basis we must wonder whether those who control mainstream media, global banking systems, global food supply, production of medicines and […]

The Ministry of Home Affairs has extended the ban on Liberations Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) for another five years, describing the Sri Lanka-based outfit as a terrorist organisation that is “likely to impact VVIP security adversely in India.” India had banned LTTE after the assassination of former PM Rajiv Gandhi in 1991. […]

Dangerous suspect: Special Branch officers taking the suspected terrorist into custody. Photo courtesy the Star The Malaysian Bukit Aman Special Branch counter-terrorism division has helped thwart a planned attack on foreign consulates in India with the arrest of four suspected terrorists including a Sri Lankan. […]

  The case of Kathiravel Thayapararaja appearing from the ‘dead’ cannot be taken lightly. If not for his arrest by the Indian police the world would have continued to believe the University Teachers for Human Rights report, continued to accept the War without Witnesses report, the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights report and continued […]