TNCC questions Swamy’s Sri Lanka visit
The Tamil Nadu Congress Committee President B S Gnanadesikan on Tuesday asked the Centre to clarify in what capacity did BJP leader Subramanian Swamy visited...
The real reason why India scuttled Pakistan talks
Despite Modi's high-flown rhetoric about good-neighbourly relationships in South Asia, he lacks a road map how to proceed -- be it with Bangladesh or with...
Sri Lanka says will refuse entry to UN war crimes investigators
Sri Lanka will not grant visas to UN investigators probing war crimes allegedly committed during the island's decades-long separatist conflict, President Mahinda Rajapakse said Tuesday....
Evidence for investigation is being clandestinely collected
Prof G.L. Peiris, Minister of External Affairs in his presentation at the Defence Seminar - 2014 on ‘Defining the Nation’s Success: a Critical Examination of the...
Pope to visit Madhu
Pope Francis would visit the historical Madhu Shrine during his stay in Sri Lanka in January next year, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, the Archbishop of Colombo...
Mass grave exhumation delayed
Sri Lankan officials on Monday sought more time to exhume a suspected mass grave in a former war zone after failing to secure the services...
Narendra Modi may visit SL next year: Swamy
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi may visit Sri Lanka early next year, according to Dr Subramanian Swamy, head of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Strategic Action...
Northern and Eastern Provincial Council members call for UN to investigate genocide
Thirty-three members of the Northern and Eastern Provincial Council have written to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), calling on the...
UN questions measures taken to address HR violations
The 112th session of the Human Rights Committee will be held at the United Nations Office at Geneva from 7 to 31 October with Sri...
NIA seeks information from Malaysia on Sri Lankan suspect
The National Investigation Agency has sent a request to the Malaysian authorities seeking information under the Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty on a Sri Lankan national...
Kaushal to urge compromise
Indian human rights activist, Avdhash Kaushal, who has been invited by Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa to join a panel of experts which will advise...
4000 US $ GDP promise for 2015 will not be reached even by 2026
Optimism about Sri Lanka’s future growth abounded at the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce’s economic summit held last week. The running refrain was that Sri Lanka...
Suicide Rate Up in Jaffna Post-war: Univ Professor
Peace returned to Jaffna after a 30-year brutal war in May 2009. But paradoxically, the suicide rate has gone up there since the end of...
Clashes erupt at audio launch of Tamil movie
Clashes erupted on Saturday at the audio launch of a Tamil movie based on the Sri Lankan army’s killing of Tamil Tiger leader Velupillai Prabhakaran’s...
We are not extremists, we work closely with some moderate Muslim groups
Just like in Burma, the recent years have seen the unrest between the Buddhist majority and the Muslim minority on the upswing in Sri Lanka....