India sees,13A as way forward for Sri Lanka
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj told the visiting TNA delegation on Friday that New Delhi continues to look at the 13th amendment as the framework...
Sri Lanka’s Intransigence
Sri Lanka’s president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, said Tuesday that his government would not cooperate with the United Nations investigation begun last month into suspected human rights...
BJP gets ready for Tamil Nadu assembly polls
Propelled by the "Modi wave", the party used the support base of six regional players it had aligned with as a launch pad to perform...
TNA MPs meet Swaraj, seeks Indian help to resolve SL Tamil issue
A delegation of Tamil National Alliance (TNA), which rules Jaffna Province of Sri Lanka, called on External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Friday and said...
UN rights chief rebukes Security Council for failure to act
Outgoing U.N. rights chief Navi Pillay rebuked the U.N. Security Council on Thursday for putting short-term geopolitical concerns and narrowly-defined national interests ahead of intolerable...
30 held for staging protest at airport
Around 30 members of Periyar Dravida Kazhagam were arrested by the police for assembling at the airport to stage a protest against the visit of...
Sri Lanka’s National Security
In a paper published in the latest issue of the US Defence Department’s journal “Prism”, Sri Lanka’s Defence Secretary, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, has reiterated his belief...
Diaspora and foreign states are threats to country
“While we have defeated the LTTE in Sri Lanka, the organization, its ideology and its operations are very much alive in a number of western...
Fishermen to lay siege to Pamban road bridge
The striking fishermen of Rameswaram, who are desperate to get their boats freed from Sri Lanka, have decided to lay siege to the Pamban road...
TNA to meet Modi on Saturday
Senior members of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA), an amalgam of Tamil political parties currently in power in Sri Lanka’s Tamil-majority Northern Province, will meet...
Defying the UN inquiry will also prepare the ground for future conflict.
Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapaksa has made a grave miscalculation in insisting that only his own country is competent to investigate allegations of war crimes in the...
Australia’s highest court to hear test case on asylum seekers
Australia's highest court set a date on Thursday for a full hearing into how a group of Sri Lankan asylum seekers were detained at sea,...
TNA to meet Modi
The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) says it will urge Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister (EAM) Sushma Swaraj to push for the full...
Kachatheevu: SC to hear Karunanidhi, Jayalalitha’s petitions together
The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear together the petitions filed by the DMK President M. Karunanidhi and the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa...
UN Secretary‑General fully supports UNHRC, High Commissioner and her leadership
“The Secretary‑General encourages Sri Lanka to cooperate with the inquiry led by the office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, that was established by...