Charles.S.Perera H.E.President Mahinda Rajapakse, Temple Trees, Colombo. Your Excellency Mr. President, Some say they do not want you to present yourself for a Presidential election for the third time. Some  others say that you have no chance to win because the UNP Candidate Hiran Fernando getting  elected at the Badulla Provincial Council election, may be […]

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Shenali D Waduge UNHRC and its head have been thrown off balance. OISL investigation is being questioned and rightly so when a LTTE is arrested with blank UNHRC war crimes submission forms with signatures. Pre-emptive strategies are taking place to shift the focus from what should remain 2 questions integral to the integrity and credibility […]

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By Camelia Nathaniel Courtesy The Sunday Leader Serious concerns regarding the credibility of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) investigation on Sri Lanka (OISL) being carried out has arisen, due to the recent discovery of signatures being obtained in blank forms, from the families of those affected by the conflict. The minister […]

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ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න   ස්ථිර ලේකම් වරු ඇතුළු බොහෝ නිලධාරීන්  ඔබ විසින් පත් කරන නිසා දැන් ඇමතිවරු හොඳටම අසරණ වී ඇත. ලේකම් වත්  ඇමතිට බය නැත. වකුගඩු රෝගයට  පාරම්පරික බෙහෙත් දෙන ජංගම සේවයට  යන වෙදදුරන්ට  වාහනයක් වත්  නොදී  ඔවුන් අසරණ බවට පත් කරන ඇමති නියෝග පවා  හමස් පෙට්ටියට දාන ලේකම් වරු දේශීය වය්ද්‍ය  අමාත්තය්න්ශයේ අරක් ගැනීම […]

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By Afshain Afzal On evening 2nd November 2014, in an unfortunate explosion near Pakistan-India entry gate at Wagah, around 60 persons were killed and more then 120 injured. The attack reminds last Muharram’s massacre at Raja Bazar, Rawalpindi in an attack on almost century old Masjid cum Madrassa, in which over 200 Sunnis were killed. […]

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චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි. සක්දෙව් රජ: ඔබ මනු ලොවින් පැමිණි අයෙක්; කරුණාකර ඔබගේ පැනය මට යොමු කරන්න! ලක් වැසියා 1 : දීර්ඝායුෂ වේවා! සක්දෙව් මහා රජතුමණි, මම ශ්රී ලාංකීය  පුරවැසියෙක්මි. සම්මා සම්බුදු පියාණන්වහන්සේ විසින් උන්වහන්සේගේ, පිරිනිවන් මංගල්‍ය දා, ශ්රී ලංකාද්වීපයේ ආරක්ෂාව සම්බන්ධව සියලු වගකීම් ඔබ වහන්සේ වෙත පැවරූ පුවත දැඩිව විශ්වාස කරන පරපුරේ නියෝජිතවරයෙක් වෙමි. මා […]

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Dilrook Kannangara Given the critical importance of the Office of the President, presidential elections in Sri Lanka rarely go without legal battles. The legendary legal battle for the 1988 election went to history books as one of the largest in the world in terms of witnesses summoned. After a legal battle, the Supreme Court decided […]

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By Munza Mushtaq for Khabar South Asia in Colombo -Courtesy Khabar South Asia An organisation in Tamil Nadu is assisting in repatriating Sri Lankan war refugees. An NGO in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu is trying to help Sri Lankan war refugees who fled there come home, five years after the ethnic conflict ended. […]

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Sri Lankan News Thirty-five sets of written submissions have been tendered to the Registrar of the Supreme Court yesterday, in respect of the two questions referred to the Supreme Court by President Mahinda Rajapaksa.In terms of Article 129(1) of the Constitution, the President sought the opinion of the Supreme Court whether there is any impediment […]

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