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Rights group files war crimes charges against Sri Lankan ambassador

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30th August 2017
A former Sri Lankan general accused of war crimes by human rights groups has left Brazil, where until recently he was his country’s ambassador to...
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Silver linings in Political cloud

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29th August 2017
In contrast to the previous Mahinda Rajapaksa regime, the current dispensation in Sri Lanka headed by President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, is...
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Sri Lanka Must Deliver On Its Commitments

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28th August 201728th August 2017
Submitting a written statement on 21 August for the thirty-sixth session of the UN Human Rights Council, scheduled from 11 September – 29 September 2017,...
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ITAK to re-orient Party Policies

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28th August 201728th August 2017
There is an intention in the top echelons of the Ilankai Tamil Arasu Katchi (ITAK) to re-orient the party’s policies to suit emerging local, regional...
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Speeding to E-NIC surveillance, Setting up an Accessible Information Data Base

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26th August 201726th August 2017
Sri Lanka has presented regulations in parliament to create a database of data about citizens which can be accessed by the defence secretary and other...
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Privacy is a fundamental right: Indian SC

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25th August 201726th August 2017
In a unanimous verdict, a nine-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court on Thursday declared that privacy is intrinsic to life and liberty and an...
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OBOR can ruin small countries

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24th August 2017
Four years ago, Sri Lanka built Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport (MRIA) in Hambantota, 250 km south from Colombo, with Chinese assistance of $190 million, more...
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Wigneswaran led NPC did little to administer the Province

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22nd August 201722nd August 2017
The Northern Provincial Council (NPC), which came into being in September 2013, after a landmark election, had raised much hopes among the people in the...
Features

Government on Financial Policy See Saw

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21st August 201721st August 2017
In the backdrop of announcing a much dreaded re-making of the country’s tax system through a new Inland Revenue Bill, the Lankan Government has paradoxically...
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Government in sixes and sevens

eyeadmin
21st August 201721st August 2017
It’s been two years since two of Sri Lanka’s largest political groupings – the United National Party (UNP) and the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP)...
Sports

Too many cooks

eyeadmin
21st August 2017
Recent losses have prompted anger, and there remain "too many cooks" in the Sri Lanka set-up: these were the grouses of interim coach Nic Pothas...
Features

Caste Based Apartheid Segregates Crematoriums

eyeadmin
20th August 2017
Caste system is still practiced in the Northern Province of Sri Lanka. Contrary to popular view propagated by the ruling caste that caste is a...
Features

Rotting From Within

eyeadmin
19th August 2017
In recent times, the political scandal you may not have heard about deals with the corridors of power in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Ravi Karunanayake, the...
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Port deal opens new era for China-Sri Lanka ties

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19th August 2017
On July 29, Chinese port operator China Merchants Port Holdings (CMPort) and the Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) signed a 99-year lease agreement in Colombo...
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Tamil Nadu pushes for ferry service

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18th August 2017
Six years after ferry service between Tuticorin and Colombo was suspended, the Tamil Nadu government is making fresh efforts to re-establish sea links with Sri...

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