Source: BBC India’s media has criticised the decision of Tamil Nadu state not to host Indian Premier League (IPL) games with Sri Lankan players, amid anger over Colombo’s rights record. The Indian Premier League said teams taking part were being told of the move. Players from around the world compete in the world’s richest cricket […]
The city of Chennai, in many ways, has been a second home for Muttiah Muralitharan. Besides being a Tamil, the former Sri Lankan off-spinner is married to an Indian who belongs to the city. Moreover, Muralitharan represented the Chennai Super Kings during the first three seasons of the Indian Premier League (IPL). […]
By Janaka Alahapperuma – (Pix by: Chandana Perera) President Mahinda Rajapaksa declared open the newly carpeted and developed access road to the Muhudu Maha Vihara in Pottuwil, Ampara district Sunday morning on 24 March while he was in the Eastern Province to attend the Deyata Kirula 2013. The Muhudu Maha Vihara is over 2000 years […]
– 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 – In further signs of fissures within the DMK, party chief M. Karunanidhi’s son M.K. Alagiri on Monday skipped the crucial Executive committee meet, which is likely to take key decisions in the wake of the party’s pullout from the ruling UPA at the Centre. […]
– 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 […]
– 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. […]