AIADMK MPs seek solution to fishermen’s problems
AIADMK MPs led by deputy speaker M. Thambidurai on Monday met Union external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj seeking a permanent solution to the problems faced...
Some Tamil prisoners to get bail
The Sri Lankan government on Monday decided to move court for bail in respect of a section of Tamil prisoners. A decision to this effect...
Karuna to Join Pro-India TULF
Vinayagamoorthy Muralitharan alias Colonel Karuna, who was the LTTE’s Commander for Batticaloa and Amparai districts till he defected to the Sri Lankan government side in...
Not everyone has got the message that things have changed
“Our ancestors lived here,” said the elderly woman. She and a dozen other Muslim inhabitants of the village of Kasankurni spoke to a Sri Lankan...
The world is increasingly focused on the Indian Ocean region
Addressing the 15th Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA) Council of Ministers Meeting in Indonesia on October 23, 2015 Atul Keshap U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka and Maldives said, 'The world is...
Foreign involvement in mechanism a political decision
The Chairman of Sri Lanka’s three-member probe commission says that certain isolated incidents that may have occurred outside the activities of the war should be...
A more credible mechanism
The recent findings of two inquiry commissions in Sri Lanka underscore the need for a formal process to investigate and prosecute those responsible for grave...
The other oppressed minority
Ahilan Kadirgamar. ...
Railway line from Maradana to Battaramulla
A feasibility study on establishing a 10 km railway land line from Maradana to Battaramulla via Dematagoda would be started today (26), Sri Lanka Railways...
UN Resolution ‘Dangerous’
Former president Mahinda Rajapaksa today rejected the UNHRC resolution on Sri Lanka as "dangerous", warning that if agreed to, it will punish the country's war...
Government was downplaying the international component
Tamil Civil Society Forum Co-Spokesperson Kumaravadivel Guruparan was invited by BBC's South Asia Editor Charles Havilland on BBC World Service on 21 October 2015 to speak...
Feasibility study on road to Talaimannar soon
The Centre will soon carry out a feasibility study on establishing a road link between Rameswaram and Talaimannar in Sri Lanka, said Pon. Radhakrishnan, Union...
Paradise lost, will it be regained?
There cannot be a better moment for our closest neighbour Sri Lanka where all the planets seem to be smiling in the right houses. Before...
Accountability process would be purely domestic
The process to fix accountability as mandated by the latest UNHRC resolution for the alleged rights abuses during the conflict with the LTTE will be...
Do not expect much from Pak. on LeT promise
South Asia watchers in the U.S capital acknowledge that Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s commitment to take action against the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) is technically a...