Daya Hettirachchi Toronto Canada Your Excellency ƒ”š‚ Mahinda Rajapaksaƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚  President of Republic of Sri Lanka Colombo Sri Lanka. Apr.15 2013 Your Excellency. ƒ”š‚ Northern Province Elections Sri Lanka recently faced the United Nations Human Rights Council resolution for the second consecutive year. This 2013 resolution had acknowledged and welcomed the LLRC report and the upcoming provincial elections […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 Canada 17 April 2013 The Editor THE OTTAWA CITIZEN Sir: You editorial “ƒ”¹…”No Surrender to Fear’ was spot on.ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚  But defeating terrorism has its down side.ƒ”š‚  The self-appointed Human Rights Police like Amnesty International and Human RightsWatch will be lurking around the corner […]

P.A.Samaraweera, Melbourne ƒ”š‚  The US Ambassador in Sri Lanka, Michele J Sisson addressing Foreign Correspondents last week, had warnedƒ”š‚ that if Sri Lanka does not show progress in reconciliation matters the country could see a return to war. She signalled about other options by the so called International Community as well. Sri Lanka did not comply […]

Malin Abeyatunge Our sympathies are with kith & kin of the three (reports 4 now) victims of the Boston Bomb Blast andƒ”š‚  many others who were injured. But Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria who experience daily bombs blasts and Sri Lanka up to 19 May 2009 experiencing daily bomb blasts by LTTE terrorists should have no sympathy […]

Vijayani Edirisinghe Daily News * To foil flight to escape bribery probe * Used time buying tactics when called for submissions The Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery and Corruption impounded the passport of former Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake to prevent her from escaping to a foreign country until the probe into the allegations of […]

The Daily News Mine was not a political appointment, it was that of Shirani Bandaranayake, says former Chief Justice Sarath. N. Silva. “In 1996, I was not appointed as Chief Justice and I held the office of Attorney General. The appointment made in 1996 which was vehemently opposed as having been made on political considerations […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando The Island Central Bank Governor Ajith Nervad Cabraal yesterday said claims being made in some quarters that the government was facing a 20 per cent cut in US aid, were hightly exaggerated as USAID funds had always been channeled through various NGOs and civil society organizations. The Governor was responding to media […]

By Shamindra Ferdinandoƒ”š‚  Courtesy Island.lk April 16, 2013, 10:09 pm UPFA MP Dr. Sudarshini Fernandopulle, yesterday said that the terrorist attack on the Boston marathon was the first attack on a sporting event in the world since the assassination of her husband, Minister Jeyaraj Fernandopulle, as he was about to flag off a marathon at […]

Justice Shirani Thillakawardene was sworn in as Acting Chief Justice yesterday. Thillakawardene takes oaths before President Mahinda Rajapaksa, while presidential secretary Lalith Weeratunga looks on (Pic by Sudath Silva) In recent incident in courts,ƒ”š‚ a lady witnessƒ”š‚  has been reprimanded for failing to observe the dress code. In Sri Lanka, court dress is worn by both […]

Press release – ProWal Radolfzell/Copenhagen, April 17th, 2013 – During the last weeks pilot whale blubber, coming from the Faroe Islands, was regularly offered on the ferryboat “Norrona”, owned by the steamship company Smyril-Line, as per reports from the dolphin and whale protection organization ProWal. Andreas Morlok, CEO of ProWal is disgusted: “The pilot whale […]

by Prof. Dr. Siddharth Singh,The Buddhist Channel, Apr 16, 2013 New Delhi, India — The Government of India has recently removed Pali – an ancient classical language – as a subject from the main examination of the Civil Services (popularly known as Indian Administrative Services i.e. IAS) of India, 2013, which wereƒ”š‚  under the purview […]

Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute for International Relations and Strategic Studies, Colombo. April 30, 2013, 2.00 “ƒ¢¢”š¬…” 6.00 p.m. Water security has acquired a prominent place in the global political, economic and security discourse given its indispensability to life on earth, development, energy and sanitation. Increasing demand for water with rapid water pollution on one hand and […]

MEDIA RELEASE Embassy of Sri Lanka Paris, France The President of the Senate of Spain, Pio Garcia Escudero commended the rapid growth and development taking place across Sri Lanka and hailed the cordial ties that exist between Spain and Sri Lanka, during his meeting with the Minister of Water Supply and Drainage and Chief Government […]