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New Delhi knows better about Pakistan in Jaffna: TNA parliamentarian
New Delhi knows better about Pakistan in Jaffna: TNA parliamentarian [Tami lNet, Tuesday, 23 October 2012, 17:38 GMT] Answering a question put by media in Jaffna on Monday, whether a Pakistani...
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Gotabaya gets Delhi invite ahead of UNHRC session
Gotabaya gets Delhi invite ahead of UNHRC session By P K Balachandran 23rd October 2012 The Indian government has invited Sri Lankan Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa to New Delhi for talks, ahead...
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Clash between Colombo school students – Police officer and 6 students injured
Clash between Colombo school students – Police officer and 6 students injured A tense situation has been reported in Reid Avenue in Colombo 07 due to a clash between two groups of students from Royal...
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Govt. allies want 13-A scrapped
Govt. allies want 13-A scrapped TUESDAY, 23 OCTOBER 2012 Several allies of the ruling United Peoples Freedom Alliance (UPFA) have decided to continue their campaign to pressure President Mahinda...
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Indian aid to Sri Lanka: For better or for worse?
Indian aid to Sri Lanka: For better or for worse? By Ankit Grover on October 23, 2012 The 26 years long civil war in Sri Lanka caused extensive damage to a progressive and promising economy. The war...
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Jaffna protests Sri Lanka’s oppression of Tamil civic bodies
Jaffna protests Sri Lanka’s oppression of Tamil civic bodies [TamilNet, Tuesday, 23 October 2012, 12:51 GMT] 13 elected civic bodies in the Jaffna Peninsula organized parallel agitations in their...
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The Myth of Blanket Immunity Of The President
The Myth of Blanket Immunity Of The President By Elmore Perera -October 23, 2012 Elmore Perera Article 3 of the much maligned 1978 Constitution unambiguously sets out that “In the Republic of Sri Lanka...
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Sri Lanka: Public Threats and Harassment Against Human Rights Defender Dr...
Sri Lanka: Public Threats and Harassment Against Human Rights Defender Dr Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu William Gomes asks Sri Lanka’s President to aid longtime human rights activist. Dr Paikiasothy...
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Video: Life After Menik Farm
Video: Life After Menik Farm The Government opened the 700-hectare Menik Farm in Northern Sri Lanka’s Vavuniya district as an IDP site in 2009, and at its peak, later that year, it held 225,000 people....
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UPDATE 1-S.Lanka’s Ceypetco may close refinery on supply delay
UPDATE 1-S.Lanka’s Ceypetco may close refinery on supply delay Mon Oct 22, 2012 6:33am EDT * Ceypetco struggling to bring in Iranian crude after U.S. sanctions * Seeking alternative crude to replace...
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Romance Of Personal And Political In Contemporary Art In Sri Lanka
Romance Of Personal And Political In Contemporary Art In Sri Lanka By Dev N Pathak -October 24, 2012 Dr.Dev N Pathak Lecture delivered at the launch of the book, Artists Remember; Artists Narrate:...
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SL, Indian sex workers face police/military harassment: UN
Sex Work and the Law in Asia and the Pacific The report is intended to provide an evidence-base for: policy makers working in government, regional and multilateral organizations; parliamentarians;...
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Message From Tokyo
Message From Tokyo Wednesday, October 24, 2012 www.thesundayleader Four key messages came out from the IMF-World Bank (WB) annual meetings which concluded in Tokyo last Sunday. They were that the...
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Letter to UN Gen. Secretary requesting to send a UN team to find Prageeth
Letter to UN Gen. Secretary requesting to send a UN team to find Prageeth Wednesday 24 of October 2012 (Lanka-e-News -24.Oct.2012, 5.00PM 22nd October 2012 marked the completion of 1000 days since...
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Teachers’ & Principals march with University Dons
Teachers’ & Principals march with University Dons WEDNESDAY, 24 OCTOBER 2012 The protest march organized by teachers’ and principals’ trade unions demanding solutions for six demands that affect...
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The Loss Of Our Collective Memory
The Loss Of Our Collective Memory By Sajeeva Samaranayake -October 24, 2012 Sajeeva Samaranayake [This is a sequel to the essay Is this also a Buddhist response? published last week. Readers are...
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Government’s Pro-Poor Education Policy Yet To Be Implemented
Government’s Pro-Poor Education Policy Yet To Be Implemented Wednesday, October 24, 2012www.thesundayleader By Dinidu de Alwis, Nirmala Kannangara and Chrishanthi Christopher The Appropriations Bill...
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Extreme weather creating urgent need for better forecasts
Extreme weather creating urgent need for better forecasts Mon, 22 Oct 2012 13:00 GMT Source: Alertnet // Amantha Perera Women in Selvanagar village in northern Sri Lanka work together to pull sand out...
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WikiLeaks: Gota Will Call And Threaten, Mahinda Will Then Follow Up By Saying...
WikiLeaks: Gota Will Call And Threaten, Mahinda Will Then Follow Up By Saying Not To Worry – Lasantha Wickrematunge To US October 24, 2012 JDS “Lasantha Wickrematunge of the Sunday Leader, an...
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Sampanthan trusts India to take up the Tamil issue
இனப் பிரச்சினையை தீர்க்கும் பொறுப்பை விரைவில் இந்தியா எடுத்துக்கொள்ளும்; சம்பந்தன் நம்பிக்கை தெரிவிப்பு இலங்கையிலுள்ள தமிழ் மக்கள் நீதியாகவும், கண்ணியத்துடனும், சுயமரியாதையுடனும் வாழ்வதை...
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