By Walter Jayawardhana The Pudukottai by-election is likely to be a cakewalk for the ruling Jayalalitha led AIADMK, as the main Opposition DMK of Karunanidhi has decided to boycott the poll, saying that opposition parties would not get justice from the Election Commission, reported the Hindu. Political analysts said in the Pudukottai area AIADMK candidate […]

By Walter Jayawardhana India’s Pioneer newspaper said in an editorial that Chief Minister Muthuvel Karunanidhi’s recent clamor to divide Sri Lanka and carve out a separate Tamil homeland has been done for a political mileage and it can also be seen as an attempt to brush aside all troubles in his own party and home. […]

by Walter Jayawardhana A team ofƒ”š‚  British university scientists have announced that they discovered signs of life in a meteorite recovered from a desert in Morocco. The team ƒ”š‚ in a preliminary study published in the current issue of the Journal of Cosmology say the electronic microscope pictures taken by the team of the piece of […]

By Walter Jayawardhana New CID investigations revealed that a DMK functionary led gang has killed a five year old girl to take her blood to sprinkle around a large building as a vow of black magic in one of the most barbaric and eerie acts. The Hindu reported: “The CB-CID on Saturday arrested three persons, […]

By Walter Jayawardhana The Supreme Court today decided to adjudicate itself the mercy pleas of Rajiv Gandhi killers against their death penalty due to the delay of over 11 years in deciding their mercy petitions by the President Pratiba Patil, reported the Pioneer Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was killed by a female suicide bomber […]

By Walter Jayawardhana D.M.K. and the newly appointed Tamil Eelam Supporters Organization (TESO) leader Muthuvel Karunanidhi said ƒ”š‚ he was optimistic that his new struggle to bifurcate Sri Lanka and carve out a Tamil Eelam would receive the blessings of the Indian Central government, eventually. He was recently showered with praise as the senior most Indian […]

By Walter Jayawardhana When Dhanapala Sinham and Sreedasan from Jaffna arrived in the beautiful Kerala city of Kollam , police think, they had some reason to be silent and not talk much: They were there illegally and suspected to be smuggled into the country by human trafficking racketeers. Since they could not answer questions in […]

Byƒ”š‚  Walter Jayawardhana In Britain, an old bastion of Christian heritage there had been a widely accepted practice of starting public meetings by saying prayers until secularist campaigners protestedƒ”š‚  sometimes even by challenging the authorities in courts of law. Eventually some local government bodies dropped the practice altogether. But when three councilors in Gloucestershire, ƒ”š‚ who […]

By Walter Jayawardhanaƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚  Chinese news agency Xinhua reported Sri Lanka has refused to accept an Indian offer to upgrade a refinery that is built to refine only Iranian oil, a minister said Sunday. Petroleum Minister Susil Premjayantha said the offer to upgrade the Sapugaskanda oil refinery had come from the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) but […]

By Walter Jayawardhana United National Party leader Ranil Wickramasinghe has been able to obtain financial help from Presidentƒ”š‚  Mahinda Rajapaksa to pay the medical bills for Dr.Jayalath Jayawardena who suddenly took ill at a London air port. The former Minister and senior opposition parliamentarian was found unconscious while travelling there and later admitted to East […]

By Walter Jayawardhana Havana which has made many medical feats for a small country has manufactured a very effective drug for asthma Cuba’s Prensa Latina News Service reported. A pharmaceutical Lab has demonstrated “a highly effective”ƒ”š‚ meeical product made from banana peel the Cuban news agency has reported. Jorge Luis Martinez and Yudit Rodriguez, executives […]

By Walter Jayawardhana There had been many reported incidents where the majestic tiger had been killed by animals of lesser stature especially when it comes to the saving of off springs. In addition to the motherly instinct in the incident reported ƒ”š‚ last Saturday ƒ”š‚ the ferocious tiger was already injured in an earlier fight in the […]

By Walter Jayawardhana Going ahead with his campaign for carving out a separate “ƒ”¹…”Tamil Eelam’ in Sri Lanka, Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam president M. Karunanidhi on Wednesday sought the revival of the Tamil Eelam Supporters Organisation (TESO), an outfit he was associated with in the 1980s, to fight for a separate State for Tamils on Gandhian […]

By Walter Jayawardhana Attacking Muthuvel Karunanidhi the leader of the DMK for asking for the separation of Sri Lanka and create Eelam through UN intervention the Hindu newspaper in no uncertain terms said the cases of Montenegro, South Sudan, East Timor and Kosovo where the UN intervened have no relevance to Sri Lanka. “Tamil ‘Eelam’ […]

By Walter Jayawardhana The Leader of the all-party Indian delegation was quoted having told the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that she discussed devolution of powers to the Sri Lankan provinces with President Mahinda Rajapaksa. ƒ”š‚ According to the Hindu newspaper which covered the meeting the devolution was on the lines of the 13th amendment to […]

By Walter Jayawardhana A new variety of Sri Lankan monkeys have been discovered by a nature conservation group doing their observations in the Sinharaja forest. The attractive species have white fur on the body and black hair on the face. The group who have identified this new kind, members of Galle Wildlife Conservation Association said […]

By Walter Jayawardhana Muthuvel Karunanidhi, the President of the of Drvaida Munetra Kazhagam (DMK) continued to embarrass the New Delhi Central government after rejecting to participate in the all party parliamentary delegation which is visiting Colombo now ƒ”š‚ also by declaring Tuesday in the party organ Murazoli that Sri Lanka should be divided and a new […]

By Walter Jayawardhana ƒ”š‚ The Communist Party of India(Marxist) said instead of keeping away all shouldld ensure that the Parliamentary delegation to Sri Lanka succeeds in its mission of finding a political solution to the ethnic problem in Sri Lanka. ƒ”š‚ CPI (M) State secretary G. Ramakrishnan said on Monday that instead of keeping away from the […]

By Walter Jayawardhana Not only the two Members of parliament from AIADMK and DMK in Tamil Nadu even the Congress Party head of the state has dropped out of the Sri LANKA trip at the last moment , the Times of India reported. It was ultimately a much smaller team of parliamentarians, minus three MPs […]

By Walter Jayawardhana A multi-party MPs delegation embarked on a six-day visit to Sri Lanka during which they will oversee developmental projects by India and handing over of houses in the areas worst affected by the decades-old civil war, reported the Times of India. Once in Sri Lanka theywil press for political reforms that wouold […]

By Walter Jayawardhana Colombo’s Island newspaper reported that Dr. Jayalath Jayawardena UNP parliamentarian and former Minister who suffered a heart attack while travelling in London is now discharged from a hospital. He was found unconscious at Gatwick International Airport and was rushed to East Surrey Hospital in London last Friday.

By Walter Jayawardhana The decision of the Drvida Munnetra Kazhagam Party(DMK), a constituent of the Unitedƒ”š‚  Progressive Alliance (UPA) government in New Delhi to keep out of a Parliamentary delegation going to Sri Lanka could be called a major embarrassment to Manmohan Singh led government ƒ”š‚ said the Hindu newspaper. “In what could be a major […]

By Walter Jayawardhana India should not feel awkward about the Chinese presence in Sri Lanka since there is plenty of room for both declared Member of Parliament and Presidential advisor Rajiv Wijesinghe in an interview in New Delhi. In a stopover in the Indian capital while travelling to Nepal Wijesinghe said India cannot have exclusive […]

Walter Jayawardhana Copying exactly what his Tamil Nadu rival Chief Minister Jayalalithaa Jayaram did DMK leader Muthuvel Karunanidhi also announced that he would withdraw the lone DMK representative to go in the all party parliamentary group headed by Sushma Swaraj. Accordingly a key UPA representative Rajya Sabha M.P.T.K.S.Elangovan will drop out of the delegation following […]

By Walter Jayawardhana Shah Rukh Khan has all types of admirers who love him.ƒ”š‚  One of them not only happens to be a terrorist and lovesƒ”š‚  to use Sharuk “ƒ”¹…”s name as an alias and that would have made the Bollywood star attract the attention from airport officials in the US said Times of India. […]

By Walter Jayawardhana Indian Muslims have urged to add a Muslim representative to the Indian parliamentary team headed by Opposition Leader Sushma Swaraj scheduled to visit Sri Lanka April 16. State president of the Indian Union Muslim League K.M. Kader Mohideen has voiced concern over the exclusion of Muslim MP in the delegation. The MP […]

By Walter Jayawardhana The India Today magazine said Jayalalitha’s withdrawal of her nominee from the all-party parliamentary delegation to Sri Lanka has upset Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s calculations who is bending over backwards to pacify the ruffled feathers of Sri Lanka after the vote at the UNHRC meeting in Geneva. “Upsetting the calculations of the […]

By Walter Jayawardhana In response to Chief Minister Jayalalitha’s allegation that the Indian parliamentary team would become a public relations event for the Rajapaksa’s other than serving any useful purposes India has announced that the Indian delegation would get the opportunity of interacting with all elected parliamentarians of the Tamils when they visit the island […]

By Walter Jayawardhana Tamil Nadu’s Chief Minister and and General Secretary ƒ”š‚ of the AIADMK Jayalalitha Jeyaram said her party would boycott the 15 member parliamentary delegation scheduled to visit Sri Lanka on a fact finding mission scheduled April 16 arguing it may prove an eyewash . So, the the parliamentary delegation arriving in Sri Lanka […]

By Walter Jayawardhana Sri Lanka’s former President Chandrika Kumaratunga has justified India for voting against Sri Lanka at the United Nation’s Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva recently. In an interview with a Press Trust of India correspondent in New Delhi she said there must have been “justifiable reasons”ƒ”š‚ for India’s voting at the council […]