by Hemantha Randunu Courtesy The Island Police investigations into a complaint that a group of more than 50 persons led by Opposition and TNA Leader R Sampanthan forcibly entering an army camp at Paravipachchan in Kilinochchi on April 16 have been stalled as the army has been ordered not to pursue the case. Police said yesterday […]

Shenali D Waduge The Northern Provincial Council has boldly passed a resolution contravening its mandate claiming ‘Sinhalese colonization in the North’. Leaving aside what the Government should do about the NPC violations, the counter question is what about Tamil colonization of the South steadily taking place. Why are those supporting the Northern colonization claim silent […]

by Basil Fernando Asian Human Rights Commission The name Kondaya is now a household name, following the tragic Sewwandi case, the abduction, rape and murder of a little girl of around 4 years. Discovery of the dead body led to an uproar not only in her village and the neighbouring villages but throughoutthecountry. There was a […]

By R. M. B. Senanayake Courtesy The Island Statesmen and public interest organizations expected much from the UNP government under Ranil, which came to office on January 8th last year. They have been in office for over a year, but have carried out the same irresponsible populist policies; and done nothing to ensure sound government and […]

Foundation stone laid for the Indian Housing Project in Central and Uva Provinces High Commissioner of India, Mr. Y. K. Sinha, and Hon’ble P. Thigambaram, Minister of Hill Country New Villages, Infrastructure & Community Development jointly laid the foundation stone for the third phase of the Indian Housing Project at Dunsinane estateon 24 April 2016 […]

by Sujeeva Nivunhella in London Courtesy The Island British Opposition Leader, Jeremy Corbyn said that until Sri Lanka’s Tamils achieve justice and self-determination the “war is not over”. Addressing a meeting organized by ‘Tamils for Labour’ at the committee room in the Houses of Parliament last week, Corbyn said the Labour Party is committed to the […]

Courtesy Adaderana Neither the Prime Minister nor the President had responded in connection with the Northern Provincial Council’s decision to adopt a resolution seeking a federal solution for the country’s Tamil community, Pivithuru Hela Urumaya leader Udaya Gammanpila says. The observation was made while speaking at a press conference held in Colombo this afternoon (25). […]

 Courtesy The Daily Mirror Dr. Sanath Hettige won the Presidential Award for the best medical invention for 2013 at the presidential awards ceremony held on the Feb 5, 2016 for his invention of papaya leaf syrup, tablets and capsules for the treatment of dengue fever and other medical conditions. This is the highest award for […]

Shenali D Waduge Commencing with the ITAK in 1949 and its aims and objectives to the TULF and the Vaddukoddai Resolution of 1976 and the formation of the LTTE in the same year/month, to the demands made by LTTE (Thimpu Principles/ISGA as solutions) and India’s solutions (Indo-Lanka Accord/13th amendment) the similarities in the demands being […]

ධර්මන් වික්‍රමරත්න විසිනි අන්තර් විශ්ව විද්‍යාල ශිෂ්‍ය බල මණ්ඩලයේ(අන්තරේ) 1992 මැයි සිට 1993 පෙබරවාරි දක්වා කැඳවුම්කරු වශයෙන් කටයුතු කල කැලණි සරසවියේ සමාජ විද්‍යා පීඨයේ සිසු ඩබ්ලිව් එම්. විරාජ් මර්වින් පෙරේරා(47) ඉකුත් 2016 අප්‍රේල් 23 වැනිදා ජිවිතයෙන් සමුගත්තේය. අභාවප්ප්‍රාප්ත වනවිට රාජ්‍ය පරිපාලන සේවයට අනුබද්ධ අනුරාධපුර සහකාර ගොවිජන සේවා කොමසාරිස් ලෙස කටයුතු කල විරාජ්ගේ අවසාන කටයුතු අනුරාධපුරයේදී […]

වරුණ චන්ද්‍රකීර්ති ගල් විහාරයේ සැතපෙන බුද්ධ ප්‍රතිමාවේ ශීර්ෂය පැත්තට වෙන්න නෙළලා තියෙන සිටි ප්‍රතිමාවහන්සේ ගැන විවිධ අදහස් පළකරපු කාලයක් තිබුණා. ඒ, බුදුරජාණන්වහන්සේ ගේ පරිනිර්වාණය ගැන කම්පාවෙන ආනන්ද හාමුදුරුවෝ කියලා සමහරු කිව්වා. ඒත් පරණවිතාන මහත්තයා කිව්වේ ඒ පර දුක්ඛ දුක්ඛිත මුද්‍රාවෙන් නිරූපණය කළ බුද්ධ ප්‍රතිමාවක් කියලා. කොහොම වුනත් මේ ගැන දැන් කවුරුවත් වාදකරන්නේ නෑ. ඒකට හේතුව […]

Slavery –Up to 13,000 working as slaves in UK -Courtesy The Guardian Government launches strategy to end slavery as number of victims found to be up to four times higher than thought. As many as 13,000 people in Britain are victims of slavery, about four times the number previously thought, analysis for the government has found. The […]