Shenali D Waduge Sans political colours, the policy of One Country One Law was looked forward to being implemented without favour or bias by all citizens of Sri Lanka. This meant that in front of the law civil and criminal laws would be one & applicable to all. It was also accepted that while personal […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Radical groups of Tamil youth   started operating in the north in the 1970s. ‘Standardization’ radicalized the student population, and organizations such as Tamil Maanavar Peravai (Tamil Students Federation) and Tamil Ilaingar Peravai (Tamil Youth Federation) were formed.  At one time there were nearly 34 groups, big and small, engaged in acts of violence, […]

High Commission of Sri Lanka New Delhi Continuing its efforts to enhance dialogue with all major religions in India, the High Commission of Sri Lanka in New Delhi presented a Sinhala translation of the Holy Quran to the Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind (Council of Muslim Theologians of India). Founded in 1919, the Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind is one of […]

Sinhaladeepa Jathika Peramuna It has been reported in the media that the SL Government has decided to take a neutral stand in regard to the Ukraine issue. Since the year 1948 Russia is maintaining the super power balance against the USA and it should be that way because if the USA were given a monopoly […]

නීතීඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන B.Sc(Col), PGDC(Col) යුක්‍රේන ගැටුම සහ එය අවසන් නොවී දිගට ඇදීමෙන් බටහිර මාධ්‍ය බරපතල ලෙස අසරණ වන අතර ඉංග්‍රීසි කතා නොකරන රටවල් වන ප්‍රංශය, ජර්මනිය, ඉතාලිය, නෙදර්ලන්තය, ජපානය, කොරියාව, චීනය වැනි රටවල් ඇමෙරිකාවට සහ එංගලන්‍තයට සහාය නොදෙන බව ලෝකයට පෙනෙන්නට පටන් ගනී. ඉංදියාව සහ අරාබිය එක්සත් ජාතීගේ ආරක්ෂක මණ්ඩලයේදී ඇමෙරිකාවට සහ එංගලන්තයට […]

by Nava Thakuria The news broke from Chennai in south India as a senior photojournalist killed himself on 13 February 2022 in his office itself. Initially it was assumed T. Kumar’s suicide as a personal affair, but soon the harsh  reality surfaced. The victim did not receive full salaries for nearly five years and he […]

John Rozario Karnataka, India One of the long-standing unresolved issues between Bangladesh and India is the Teesta water-sharing agreement. The agreement between Bangladesh and India on Teesta water sharing has been discussed for the last few years. But the Teesta issue has stopped with assurance. After the Ganges Treaty in 1996, the issue of distribution […]

by Algemeiner Staff Courtesy Algemeiner An Israeli citizen who was killed in Ukraine called his partner shortly before being fatally shot, saying, I don’t want to die.” Roman Brodsky, 37, was gunned down while in his vehicle, apparently by Ukrainian forces who mistook him for a Chechen soldier. He made the phone call to his […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka says it is convinced that counter-terrorism legislation must secure and protect the rights of persons subject to investigation detention and trial, and must not restrict democratic freedoms such as the freedom of expression. Minister of Foreign Affairs, Prof. G.L. Peiris made this remark delivering the High-Level Segment Statement at the 49th […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Health Ministry says that another 914 persons have tested positive for Covid-19 today, as the daily count of new cases continues to rise in the country. This brings the tally of Covid-19 cases registered in the country thus far to 646,948.  According to official figures, 609,092 positive cases have recovered. Following the […]