– By Shenali Waduge – Does David Miliband speak and act on behalf of the UK Government? The best way to find that out is for Sri Lanka’s External Affairs Minister to summon the UK High Commissioner in Sri Lanka and seek clarification. David Miliband and a host of other UK MPs are denigrating a […]

– By Walter Jayawardhana – Sri Lankan novelist Daya Dissanayake was among five writers honoured with the SAARC Literature Awards in Agra, India on Sunday. The others included writer poet-diplomat Abhay. K from India, Pakistan’s Farheen Chaudhary, Abdul Khaliq Rashid of Afghanistan and Suman Pokhrel of Nepal. Afghanistan, Bhutan, Bangladesh, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and […]

– Submitted by Walter Jayawardhana – Days before a US-sponsored resolution will be taken up against Sri Lanka at the UN Human Rights Council, Colombo accused Washington of committing human rights abuses. […]

– Submitted by Walter Jayawardhana – In a late night swoop, police removed eight students of Chennai’s Loyola College, who were on a fast-unto-death on the Sri Lankan Tamils issue and admitted them to a hospital, police sources said. […]

– By Walter Jayawardhana – Pointing out Tamil Eelam Supporters  Organization (TESO) founded in Chennai does not help at all to solve the problems of Sri Lanka Tamils India’s politically powerful the Hindu newspaper strongly advocated New Delhi in an editorial  to craft a Lanka policy free of the opportunistic imprint of Tamil Nadu’s competitive […]

Britain needs to back the call for Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) to be moved, Former UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband said today. In an article to the British Guardian newspaper he added that, ‘for it to go ahead in Sri Lanka would be a mockery of Commonwealth values and UN authority, and a […]

High spirited Sri Lankans who crushed a so-called unbeatable terrorist outfit in 2009 has now set another world record by placing the country among the top boozing nations in the world, a study carried out by a local research firm showed. […]

All Lankan producers will no longer carry the Halal logo on their products unless requested by their foreign consumer, the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce said a short while ago. Meanwhile it was stated that for export purposes companies could obtain the Halal certification free of charge from the All Ceylon Jamiyyathul Ulama (ACJU). […]

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 […]