No need to praise Army for its post-war good deeds
C.V.Wigneswaran ,the controversial Chief Minister of Sri Lanka’s Tamil-majority Northern Province, said on Sunday that the Tamils need not praise the Sri Lankan armed forces...
No Internet Please, We’re Sri Lankan!
“You’re an Internet addict!” ...
Wigneswaran sidelined
The United Nations, the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) and the Sri Lankan government have combined to sideline Sri Lanka’s Northern Province Chief Minister C.V.Wigneswaran in...
Prabhakaran’s siblings unlikely to petition office of missing persons
M.K. Shivajilingam, Tamil politician and a relation of the slain Tamil Tiger chieftain Velupillai Prabhakaran, has said that he will assist Prabhakaran’s siblings, now living...
Teen arrested over hacking of website
Sri Lanka police have arrested a 17-year-old school boy on suspicion of hacking into the president’s official website, demanding that his university entrance examination dates...
Rising chicken prices
Annual per capita consumption of chicken in Sri Lanka, which was barely 2.5 kg a decade ago, has now reached 8.2 kg and is likely...
Dejected Dilshan slams former skippers
Sri Lanka’s Tillakaratne Dilshan, who retired from ODI cricket on Sunday, suggested he did not have enough support from his team-mates during his 10-month stint...
Still Counting the Wounds
In his half-built three-room house at Uruthirapuram, 10 km to the west of Kilinochchi, in northern Sri Lanka, one of the headquarters of the Tamil...
Ban will not meet Chief Minister Wigneswaran separately
The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will do his bit to reconcile conflicting interests in Sri Lanka during his three-day visit to the island beginning...
Sitharaman cancels visit
Indian Minister of State for Commerce, Nirmala Sitharaman, who was to come here on August 25 for a short visit at the invitation of the...
Taranjit Sandhu India’s next envoy
Taranjit Singh Sandhu will be the next Indian High Commissioner in Sri Lanka succeeding Y.K.Sinha who has completed his term. An old Sri Lanka hand,...
UN Chief to meet displaced
Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon will meet war displaced people during a visit to Sri Lanka next week, the Foreign Ministry said Friday....
Tamils continue to face racial discrimination says UN Committee
Tamils continue to face discrimination in Sri Lanka, a UN committee stated recently, and questioned the island-country if Indian Tamils were allowed to get back...
Sri Lanka to simplify taxes
Sri Lanka’s new government is drafting norms aimed at simplifying taxes, widening the tax base and increasing compliance, Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake said. The International...
Why Australia’s batsmen struggled in Sri Lanka
A setback of any kind demands a retrospective study. It is a matter of concern for followers of Australian cricket that they have now lost...