The events that unfolded this week shockingly foretells the story of the very rapid collapse of the secular state in Sri Lanka. Although, the events around which a new melodrama unfolded in Sri Lanka were some trivial events of several warrants issued against one Buddhist monk, in which the Sri Lankan state finally proved that it is unable to even execute a warrant issued by a …
It has become problematic for the Sri Lankan government to arrest and sentence the virulently anti-Muslim Buddhist monk, Ven. Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thera ,General Secretary of the Bodu Bala Sena (BBS), because he has influential supporters at home and abroad and the government itself considers the issue a political hot potato. On Wednesday, the Colombo Fort Magistrate released Ven.Gnanasara Thera on bail in two cases relating …
Even as the spat between Northern Province Chief Minister C.V.Wigneswaran and the Ilankai Tamil Arasu Katchi (ITAK) leader R.Sampanthan ended in a compromise on Monday, with both sides abandoning brinkmanship, new issues have been raised to muddy the political waters in the Tamil-majority province. writes P.K.Balachandran in Daily Express On Monday itself, Chief Minister Wigneswaran asked the Chairman of the Northern Provincial Council (NPC), C.V.K.Sivagnanam, to …
Controversial Northern province chief minister Canagasabapathy Visuvalingam Wigneswaran who has lost the confidence of at least 22 out of 38 Northern provincial councillors is in a fighting mood and is planning to defy the Tamil National Alliance(TNA) and Ilankai Thamil Arasuk Katchi (ITAK)leadership said informed Jaffna sources yesterday. TNA leader Rajavarothayam Sampanthan and ITAK president Somasundaram Senathirajah have both requested Wigneswaran to resolve the current political …
Uncertainty continued in Sri Lanka’s Northern Provincial Council on Friday, after discussions between Tamil National Alliance (TNA) leader R. Sampanthan and Northern Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswaran. Following the Chief Minister’s recent move, asking two of the four ministers in his Cabinet to resign over corruption charges proved by an inquiry, and call to the two others to go on leave — despite insufficient evidence to prove …
The political conflict in Sri Lanka’s Tamil majority Northern Province, which escalated dangerously on Thursday, appeared to be heading for a solution at the end of the day, with Chief Minister C.V.Wigneswaran and the leadership of the Tami National Alliance (TNA) reportedly going in for a compromise. The compromise solution worked out by intermediaries is that the Chief Minister would take back the two ministers who …
One of the coordinators of the newly formed North-East Hill Country Tamil People’s Forum, and Former Northern Provincial Councillor M.P. Natraj said the New Constitution must recognise Hill Country Tamils as a separate community equal to the Sinhalese, Tamils and Muslims of this country. “We are Sri Lankan Hill Country Tamils,” he said. Following are excerpts of the interview: ? Why did you suddenly form an …
By rushing the Navy and relief material at the first signs of the rains and floods in Sri Lanka recently, India has once again demonstrated the political will to reach out to the neighbourhood in their hour of distress. Not long before the devastating rains, India rushed food relief as the island-nation was reeling under unprecedented drought. So did Pakistan and China, the US and others, …
The World Bank says economic reforms, International Monetary Fund programs and resumption of European Union’s Generalized System of Preferences Plus (GSP+) will help Sri Lanka’s economy to accelerate to 5.1 percent by 2019. The global lender says Sri Lanka’s growth is expected to pick up to about 4.7 percent in 2017 and accelerate to 5.1 percent by 2019, as The IMF-supported program helps improve macroeconomic resilience. …
India’s swift delivery of relief supplies and personnel to flood and landslide-hit Sri Lanka has re-affirmed its position as Sri Lanka’s most relevant neighbour, and also its primacy as a power in the South Asian region. No other country in the region, Pakistan and China included, can act with such speed, and deliver men and material in such high volumes at short notice when natural or …
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