(CNN) — A high profile member of FIFA’s executive committee, has been provisionally banned from “football related activity” for 90 days, the world governing body said Monday. Sri Lankan Vernon Fernando Manilal has been suspended at the request of the Michael Garcia and Hans-Joachim Eckert, who chair the investigatory and adjudicatory bodies of FIFA’s Ethics […]
– 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 […]
– 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 […]
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). […]
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 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 […]