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Refugee advocates want the Federal Government to move an 11-year-old asylum seeker out of detention at Pontville near Hobart, and into the local community. The Pontville centre, re-branded as an alternative place of detention by the Immigration Department, has been used to detain almost 300 unaccompanied minors from places like Afghanistan, Vietnam, Iran and Sri Lanka. The Sri Lankan child is being held …
Tuesday, July 9, 2013 2:37 pm,
by eyeadmin
▶sinhala– සිංහල ▶english– A suspected Indian Mujahideen member, who was arrested yesterday from the Nadia district in West Bengal, will be questioned over whether he had any role to play in the multiple blasts that rocked the Mahabodhi temple in Bihars Bodhgaya yesterday morning NDTV News reported. Union Home Secretary Anil Goswami said that serial explosions inside and outside Mahabodhi Temple complex …
Monday, July 8, 2013 9:47 am,
by eyeadmin
Minster of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, Rajitha Senaratne, warned if the 13th Amendment to the Constitution was scrapped, the government would be ‘finished.’ He also said, “There cannot be any question of scrapping the 13th Amendment, because the government will have to leave power if they do so.” Minister Senaratne also noted, “These so-called nationalist groups that are against the 13th Amendment are …
Sunday, July 7, 2013 11:51 am,
by eyeadmin
India on Friday told Sri Lanka categorically not to dilute a key constitutional provision that promises autonomy to the Tamil minority.External affairs minister Salman Khurshid conveyed the message to Sri Lankan minister Basil Rajapaksa that Colombo should go beyond the 13th amendment to the constitution “to ensure meaningful development of Sri Lanka”. Basil Rajapaksa, a brother of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, arrived in New …
Saturday, July 6, 2013 7:19 am,
by eyeadmin
▶sinhala– සිංහල ▶english– The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) issuing a press release stated that the TNA took a decision on the 29th of June 2013, not to participate in the proposed Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC). It stated that the The TNA placed before the Government delegation in writing at the very first meeting itself, the speech made by President Rajapaksa at the inaugural …
Friday, July 5, 2013 9:11 am,
by eyeadmin
▶sinhala– සිංහල ▶english– The leader of Egypt’s military ousted President Mohammed Morsi from office and replaced him with the head of the country’s constitutional court — a move the presidential palace quickly branded a “complete military coup.” The announcements ended days of a political crisis that brought millions of Egyptians out to the country’s streets, spurring bellicose rhetoric from Morsi’s backers and Egypt’s …
Thursday, July 4, 2013 9:56 am,
by eyeadmin
▶sinhala– සිංහල ▶english– A former police officer, who was part of the special investigation team that probed the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, has moved the Madras high court for a direction to the Centre and the CBI to consider his representation seeking the extradition and interrogation of ex-LTTE leader Kumaran Padmanabhan alias KP, the Times of India reported. The PIL, filed by J …
Wednesday, July 3, 2013 9:33 am,
by eyeadmin
India’s National Security Adviser Shiv Shankar Menon is scheduled to meet President Mahinda Rajapaksa 9th July for discussions on recent developments concerning the Thirteenth Amendment brought about by the India-Sri Lanka accord.Menon is expected in Colombo on July 7th. Menon who has served in Sri Lanka as High Commissioner and also held the post of foreign secretary is expected to convey a high level …
Tuesday, July 2, 2013 9:30 am,
by eyeadmin
The Sri Lankan parliamentary select committee (PSC) on devolution will meet on July 19 despite boycott by opposition members, who say the meeting has been convened to strip provincial council of powers. “The PSC with 19 government MPs would meet as scheduled. The opposition is yet to name their allocation of 12 members,” Nimal Siripala de Silva, the senior minister and Chair of the PSC …
Monday, July 1, 2013 10:38 am,
by eyeadmin
▶sinhala– සිංහල ▶english– The Tamil National Alliance(TNA) has decided not to participate in the Parliamentary Select Committee(PSC) appointed to study and make relevant changes to the 13th amendment to the constitution, TNA MP Suresh Premachandran said. Representatives of the main constituent political parties of the TNA, such as Illankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi (ITAK), People’s Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam (PLOTE), Tamil United …
Sunday, June 30, 2013 10:49 am,
by eyeadmin
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