Sri Lanka News Brief Journalists across the country began a massive protest in front of the Fort in Colombo today to protest against the Navy Commander for attacking journalists while they were reporting the tense atmosphere prevailed between the Magampura port workers and Navy  a few days ago. Media Employees Trade Union Federation, Working Journalists […]

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Dilrook Kannangara The Minister of Justice raised a few eye brows when he decided to sort out matters connected to Venerable Ampitiye Sumanarathana Thero outside the legal system. Tamil, Muslim and Sinhala MPs questioned his rationale behind his action. They argued that the venerable Buddhist monk should be punished for hate speech and arousing ethnic […]

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Shenali D Waduge The ISGA (Interim Self Governing Authority) was proposed by globally proscribed terrorists in October 2003 for power sharing of merged NorthEast province. The proposal was titled Proposal by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam on behalf of the Tamil people for an agreement to establish an interim self-governing authority for the North […]

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Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Gove Crescent .  Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . Canada Hounarable Mithripala Sirisena President of Sri Lanka Presidential Secretariat Galle Face Colombo 1 Sri Lanka Archbishop of Colombo, Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith Re:  The Tallest Christmas Tree in the World 2016 Dear President Sirisena: When I read that this stupid ChristmasTree Project […]

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By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe expressed his regret for the Jaffna Library’s destruction in 1982. Though many misconstrued his expressed regret as an apology, very few commended him for it. This is because the list of wrongs done during the UNP tenures, especially since the 1977 Constitution, is long. Instead, he […]

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