High costs slowing push toward solar energy
An ambitious plan by the Sri Lankan government to outfit 100,000 homes with solar panels, to turn them into power producers for the national grid,...
“Ezhuga Tamizh” for greater devolution
The Chief Minister of Sri Lanka’s Tamil majority Northern Province, C.V.Wigneswaran, on Saturday gave a clarion call for a people’s movement to raise issues pertaining...
USTPAC disturbed by Justice Minister’s statement
In an interview with BBC Sandeshaya, Sri Lankan Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe categorically rejected all allegations of war crimes committed by Sri Lanka's armed forces...
Fault-lines in the Transitional Justice Process
Aaranya Rajasingam. ...
Schools banned from imposing dress codes on parents
Schools in Sri Lanka have been banned from imposing dress codes on parents visiting the premises. It comes after a poster outside one elite private...
Important that government expedites legislative process of implementing VAT
A staff team from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) led by Jaewoo Lee visited Colombo during September 13-23, 2016 to hold discussions on the first...
Wigneswaran urges Tamil people to join mass protest
Northern Province Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswaran has urged Tamil people to participate in a demonstration scheduled in Jaffna tomorrow, to oppose the systematic settlement of...
Move to resolve Indian fishermen issue
The National Fishworkers Forum (NFF) has welcomed the statement of Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena on the need for an early solution for resolving the...
Hamas, Tamil Tigers May be Removed From EU Terror Blacklist
The European Union's top court took a step on Thursday toward confirming the removal of Hamas and the Tamil Tigers from an EU terrorism blacklist, despite...
Travails of a war-torn people
On September 21, 2013, tens of thousands of Tamils living in Sri Lanka’s heavily-militarised North decisively voted in the long-delayed provincial elections. They had waited...
The fractured North
By Dharisha Bastians. ...
96 former LTTE cadres examined
Doctors at the government hospitals in the five districts of the Northern Province have, in the past three weeks, examined 96 former cadres of the...
There should be a political solution for the ethnic conflict
Major General Kamal Gunaratne who commanded the 53rd Division of Sri Lanka Army to defeat and kill Velupillai Prabhakaran, the Leader of the LTTE, has...
Country would have to pay a very heavy price
Former General Officer Commanding (GoC) of 53 Division Maj. Gen. Kamal Gunaratne has urged the government to stop rapid deterioration of the country’s premier intelligence...
India’s tryst with Sri Lanka
When Maithripala Sirisena won the presidential elections in Sri Lanka in early 2015, followed by Ranil Wickremesinghe taking over as Prime Minister, New Delhi was...