Shenali D Waduge  When Narendra Modi set out to campaign and become the Prime Minister of India, he did not plan to win an election to be told how he should lead by one of India’s 31 Chief Ministers. Yet, the Tamil Nadu tantrum has become a curse to India’s Central Government and dented India’s […]

According to the news reports the Government is planning to introduce a Bill to settle the land issues pertaining displaced persons on account of the terrorist activities of the LTTE. The legislation , the Prescription (special provisions ) Bill as per Justice Ministry’s legal consultant  M.HM.Salmann would help clear the land in the North and […]

D.B.S.Jeyaraj -Courtesy The Daily Mirror It was in April this year that this column  exclusively reported for the “Daily Mirror” about how Subramaniam Kapilan alias Nanthagopan had been deported on March 6, 2014 to Sri Lanka from Malaysia with the assistance of law enforcement authorities in Iran and Malaysia. The 45-year-old deputy leader of the […]

Dr D.Chandraratna Perth Today’s news item in the Indian Daily ‘The Hindu’ states that ‘President Mahinda Rajapaksa will hope that the BJP’s independence of Tamil Nadu allies will make New Delhi more supportive of his regime. India values ties with Sri Lanka but Colombo must make room for political aspirations of the minority Tamils.’ Another […]

By Damien Fernando After the meeting the HE had with the new prime minister of India the once again the talk of delegation of police and land powers to the provincial councils is doing the rounds. The need and also the motives of people demanding for delegation such powers in a small country like Sri […]

The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma.” ”• Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery Dr. Judith Lewis Herman is a pioneer in the study of post-traumatic stress disorder and the sexual abuse of women and children. Herman’s best-known contribution to […]

Shenali D Waduge World events most of which are ‘engineered’ leave a trail that leads to the architects. We next discover that there are 3 cities on earth that come under no national authority, they have separate laws, they pay no taxes, they have their own police force and even possess their own flag of […]

Nalin de Silva The Malaysian authorities have to be congratulated for deporting two so called refugees and one “asylum seeker” who are none other than terrorists whose interests are being watched by “Human rights watch”. It is now known that United Nations Organization is responsible for giving so called refugee status to much more than […]

Nava Thakuria Guwahati: As the news about the killing of a young television journalist by miscreants spreads, the condemnation pours on the Orissa government in central India. Orissa (now known as Odisha) thus records the first murder of a working journalist in India this year with the slaughtering of Tarun Kumar Acharya on May 27 […]

Mr. Senaka Weeraratna, Attorney-at-Law and Buddhist activist, has urged that a course in “Animal Law and Ethics” be started at the Faculty of Law or the University of Colombo. He says in a letter to Mr. N. Selvakumaran, Dean of the Faculty of Law, that this is a field that law schools in developing countries […]

Niranjan de Silva Deva Aditya Sri Lankan born Niranjan de Silva Deva Aditya has made history again by going against the trend and increasing his share of the vote in the European Parliament election held last Sunday through out Europe when the 500 million people of the European Union went to the polls to elect […]

Media Release The President of the General Assembly, The Ambassador of Thailand and the Special Representative of the Alliance of Civilisations The United Nations (UN) in New York commemorated the International Day of Vesak in accordance with General Assembly Resolution 54/115 at a well-attended ceremony held in the Trusteeship Council in the UN Conference Building […]

Dr.Tilak Fernando (Nicky Karunarathna exposures – continued from 80) First and foremost an apology is due on an inadvertent error in Para 4 (Part 80) under the sub-heading Slave Trade which would have given the reader the impression of history being distorted. In fact 4th paragraph should have read as follows: “If one were to […]