17 TNA candidates unite on 3 key demands
In the final run up to the election, candidates of the TNA across the five districts have come together on three key points...
Supreme Court issues stay in display of pictorial warnings on cigarette packets
The Supreme Court of Sri Lanka issued an interim order suspending the implementation of the gazette notice requiring to display pictorial warnings on...
War-Scarred Sri Lankan Tamils See Hope in Election
The ethnic Tamils of Sri Lanka tried to gain autonomy in their northern heartland first through three decades of protests and strikes,...
Vote in Sri Lanka’s North stirs Tamil calls
Voters in northern Sri Lanka go to the polls on Saturday in a provincial election that threatens to stir up old animosity between...
I was intentionally sidelined during UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay’s visit
Ananthy Sasitharan, a rising Tamil voice in the North says that during the time of the LTTE women were actively involved in politics and...
I questioned about the Buddhist Flag: Navi Pillay
UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva states that although at a discussion about peace and reconciliation, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Ms....
Wigneswaran wants India to take part in CHOGM
While leaders of political parties in Tamil Nadu have been strident in their demand that India boycott of the Commonwealth Heads of...
Ban Ki- Moon: Elections as an important opportunity to foster political reconciliation
Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- Moon issuing a statement Thursday, 19 Sept on Sri Lanka's provincial elections says; The Secretary-General welcomes the forthcoming...
TNA MP calls for international investigations on prisoners of war
Tamil National Alliance (TNA) parliamentarian Suresh Premachandran has called for an international investigation on the state of Prisoners of War (POW) according...
Do not discredit The NPC Election process
Exercising a ‘right of reply’ with regard to references made to Sri Lanka by Germany, the US and Ireland under Agenda Item 4...
Election monitors to look at whole process
Commonwealth election monitors say they will look at the entire process leading up to the Northern Provincial Council Elections when compiling their report...
Foreigners monitor Sri Lanka’s Provincial election
Foreign observers held talks with officials and candidates in Sri Lanka’s former war zone Wednesday to ensure the region’s first elections to...
Civil Society censures wrong politics of TNA but urges people to vote for it
The Tamil civil society in the North, comprising of religious dignitaries, including the Mannaar Bishop, academics, doctors, student leaders and trade union...
Mandana Ismail seeks refuge in North American country?
A senior Sri Lankan journalist has left the country three weeks after she and her family were held at knife point during a...
This election is the first step for a long-term solution
After decades of bloody civil war that ended with the decimation of the LTTE in 2009, the Tamil-majority Northern Province in Sri Lanka...