Month: July 2013

     “No Fire Zone – The Killing Fields Of Sri Lanka” shortlisted for the 2013 British Documentary Awards. The 41st Annual British Documentary Awards...

     Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird is denying reports he has confirmed plans to attend the Commonwealth summit in Sri Lanka. Two newspapers...

  - සිංහල -     Mamnoon Hussain, a little-known textiles magnate from Karachi and a loyalist of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, won the presidential vote...

    Britain’s Home Office was today at the centre of a volley of confusing statements around the proposed £ 3,000 ($4,350) visa bonds for visitors...

  - සිංහල -      On the way to Rio de Janeiro on July 22, Pope Francis told reporters, "I don't give interviews." But at...

  - සිංහල -     The Tamil National Alliance filed nomination papers of Northern Provincial Council election for Jaffna and Killinochchi district at 12.30...

     Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had assured Tamil Nadu government that there was no change in the stand of the Centre on reconciliation and...

     Fishermen in Jaffna have rejected any solution formulated by India in order to resolve the issues faced between Indian and Sri Lankan fishermen...

      Canagasabapathy Viswalingam Wigneswaran was named by the Tamil National Alliance(TNA) on the Ides of July as its chief ministerial candidate for the...

   'Arappor', a documentary on the mass protests that swept across Tamil Nadu earlier this year, is set to be released in Chennai on Sunday...

The British Parliamentary delegation, currently in Sri Lanka, toured the Southern Province on Thursday, according to statement issued by the British High Commission yesterday. They...

  - සිංහල -    A report prepared by Freedom House has reportedly stated that media freedom remained restricted in Sri Lanka in 2012, with...