By Walter Jayawardhana The Kudnkulam nuclear plant diplomatic tussle between Sri Lanka and India has given a shot in the arm to many anti-nuclear agitators in Chennai who have been protesting against the upcoming plant in the ƒ”š‚ area reported the Hindu. “For the anti-nuclear protesters in Kudankulam, who remained firm that the project should be […]

By Walter Jayawardhana Premakumar Gunaratnam a leader of the JVP splinter group, Frontline Socialist Party who was banished from Sri Lanka to his second home Sydney receivedƒ”š‚  the widest possible publicity in Australia when he held a press conference there In the press conference he has ƒ”š‚ accused the Colombo government of widespread human rights violations […]

By Walter Jayawardhana DMK President and former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Muthuvel Karunanidhi ƒ”š‚ slammed Sri Lanka for raking up the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project issue, saying it had been there for many years and India’s Southern neighbour’s protests now cannot be accepted. The Kudankulam project was not something new and had been started many years […]

By Walter Jayawardhana The Bharatiya Janatha Party led state government of Madhya Pradesh is favouringƒ”š‚  a Hindutva agenda in granting subsidies to the state pilgrims to visit Sitamatha temple in Sri Lanka , the Opposition leader of the state has alleged. Leader of the Oppostion of the Congress Party Ajay Singh last Friday alleged that […]

By Walter Jayawardhana Chinese new agency Xinhua reported that Colombo will raise its concern over the nuclear power plants along the coastline of South India before the International Atomic Energy Agency. The news agency said quoting Sri Lanka’s Power and Energy Minister Champika Ranawaka the issue will be raised at the International Atomic Energy confabulation […]

By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles A book written by former US diplomat advocates that India should concentrate on the division of Sri Lanka . The bookƒ”š‚  ƒ”š‚ also says India once failed to project itself as a regional power when it did not send its troops to Sri Lanka to capture Prabhakaran or kill […]

By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles The recent statement that some cadres of ƒ”š‚ Sri Lanka’s crushed Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have joined Maoists of the Sothern Indian state of Karnataka is a process that continued to happen without any break with the fall of the movement back in 2009 by the Sri […]

By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles ƒ”š‚ An article written in response to what the paper said was India’s U turn in foreign policy by voting against a close ally, Sri Lanka at a United Nation Human Rights Council (UNHCR) in Geneva ƒ”š‚ warned that the “Indian government might find itself in a very uncomfortable situation […]

By Walter Jayawardhana ƒ”š‚ The United Nations Human Rights Council resolution against Sri Lanka was not passed in its original form but tweaked by India so that the wording to say that the implementation of its assistance that the UN Commissioner will provide must be with the concurrence of Sri Lanka said the Hindu newspaper in […]

By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles The Norway Broadcastingƒ”š‚  (NRK) reportedƒ”š‚  the country’s UN special envoy to Sri Lankan peace process and the powerful leftist politician Eric Solheim has been stripped of his Ministerial titles-both of environmental issues and foreign aid and replaced by younger ones in the party in the country’s coalition government. […]

By Walter Jayawardhanaƒ”š‚  reporting from Los Angelesƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚  ƒ”š‚ Over the past two decades astronomers and space scientists have discovered vast quantities of organic molecules everywhere in the universe “ƒ¢¢”š¬…” in planets, comets and moons of our solar system, in clouds of gas and dust that are the birthplace of stars, and even in the most distant […]

By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe said the latest discoveries reported last week implying the existence of hundreds of billions of alien planets has an intimate connection with his theory that life is exceedingly commonplace in the universe. Now Director of a new research Centre studying all aspects of Life in […]

By Walter Jayawardhana in Los Angeles A US born Buddhist monk, Venerable Siridhamma (85) died of a massive heart attack while attending the funeral of a Sri Lankan. Just few minutes before the last rites of the Late Mrs. Batugedara was performed at a funeral home in Lancaster in Southern California where the monk was […]

By Walter Jayawardhana in Los Angeles Norwegian terrorist bombs that killed more than 90 people “ƒ¢¢”š¬…”mostly young summer vacationers in that country have been ironically made with fertilizer , a method popularized by Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka during the heyday of the LTTE terrorism in the Indian Ocean island nation. Norway has allegedly become […]

By Walter Jayawardhana Keerthi Gunoth Richard De Silva, the founder President of the Los Angeles based Sinhala Defense League that played the prominent role in the anti-separatist struggle of Sri Lanka in North America died in his West Covina home June 24, just eight days after his 81st birthday, his daughter Desika said. “My father […]

By Walter Jayawardhana in Los Angeles New Zealand captain Daniel Vittori will quit Cricket twenty20 and captain of the national team after the defeat of his team at Colombo’s R. Premadasa cricket gtounds, the New Zealand Herald reported. “Vettori, “ƒ”š‚¦ confirmed after the match that he’ll step down as captain and from the Twenty20 team,”ƒ”š‚ […]

Walter Jayawardhana “We were thoroughly outplayed we can’t hide away from that, we go home with our tail between our legs,”ƒ”š‚said England captain Andrew Strauss after being defeated by the Sri Lankan team at R.Premadasa stadium in Colombo. Following is the full story published by London’s Daily Telegraph containing the captain’s reaction: By Derek Pringle, […]

By Walter Jayawardhana in Los Angeles Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe, the chief exponent of the theory that planets like earth have been seeded for life by comets has been dismissed from his post at the Cardiff University in Wales, United Kingdom. The university informed the Sri Lanka born British scientist that they are withdrawing funding for […]

ƒÆ’‚¯ƒ”š‚»ƒ”š‚¿ By Walter Jayawardhana in Los Angeles. Chandra Wickramasinghe, father of panspermia-that advocates the birth of life happened in deep space and travelled on comets to planet earth said the world is witnessing a paradigm shift regarding the beginning of life similar to the Copernican revolution. He was interviewed in Cardiff Wales from Los Angeles […]

By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles Elizabeth Taylor, the British born Hollywood actress, very close to the hearts of her fans in Sri Lanka ever since her arrival in the Indian Ocean island to play theƒ”š‚  female lead of the film Elephant Walk is getting better in a hospital after admitting for congestive heart […]

By Walter Jayawardhana in Los Angeles China has surpassed Japan to become the world’s No.2 economy , behind only the United States , the Los Angeles Times reported. In a lead story in its business section the newspaper said, “China’s economy has surpassed, as the world’s second largest. a highly anticipated milestone rich in symbolism […]

By Walter Jayawardhana in Los Angeles Anton Chekhov, whom many regard as the best short story writer in the world called Sri Lanka , “A Paradise on Earth.”ƒ”š‚ Anton Chekhov is quoted so in a biography written of the famous author by his younger brother Mikhail Chekhov, the English translation of which has been just […]

By Walter Jayawardhana The Sri Lanka government has sought the advice of the country’s Attorney General how to freeze more than 600 bank accounts belonging to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) terrorist outfit. Government sources said the minute details of these bank accounts have been divulged by Kumaran Pathmanathan (KP) who succeeded the […]

By Walter JayawardhanaPictures by Nalin Hewapathirana President Mahinda Rajapaksa declared at Narahenpita Colombo that he got the confidence and training of how to face the current imperialistic challenge against his country by working very closely with the working class movement of Sri Lanka in the past. He said the support of the working class movement […]

By Walter Jayawardhana Sri Lanka has seized three LTTE cargo ships which the terrorist outfit used to smuggle arms and are being brought back to Sri Lanka with the help of the Interpol, Colombo’s Island newspaper said. “The rogue vessels being brought to Sri Lanka by the Lankan Navy were expected to reach the Sri […]

By Walter Jayawardhana Photos by Sudath Silva President Mahinda Rajapaksa took time to go on a pilgrimage to the sacred city of Anuradhapura prior to starting his Presidential Election campaign. Atamassthanadhipathi Veneral Pallegam Siriniwasa led Buddhist monks chanted pirith and blessed the President. The monk said Anuradhapura sacred city and the rest of the country […]

By Walter Jayawardhana ƒ”š‚ An Agreement was signed between China Harbor construction company and Sri Lanka chairman of Airport and aviation ƒ”š‚ Prasannaƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ Wikramasooriya .(Pix : Chandana Perera-Nalin Hewapathirana) Regardless of whatever power is bringing pressure on Sri Lanka, the government is determined not to change any decision taken for the benefit of the motherland said President Mahinda […]

By Walter Jayawardhana The United Kingdom, still furious over , how the Sri Lankan government crushed a thirty year long armed insurrection of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) will try to block Sri Lanka hosting the next Commonwealth summit, news reports in London said. Although Sri Lanka will resettle all refugees of the […]

By Walter Jayawardhana Declaring that the forthcoming Presidential election is considered a referendum to oust President Rajapaksa and his family from power former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said his party the United National Party has decided to support the common candidate General Sarath Fonsekeka . Coming from a party working committee the leader of the […]

By Walter Jayawardhana Writing about Tamil Tigers who have come to the country this time on the merchant ship Princess Easwary masquerading as Ocean Queen editorial writer John Ivison says Canada has a serious blind spot regarding terrorism. Quoting Richard Fadden of the Canadian Secuurity Intelligence Service Ivison of Canada’s National Post says Canada is […]