By Haadiyah Marikar Courtesy The Daily Mirror Medical Negligence at Rajiv Gandhi Govt. Hospital in Chennai, Causes Death of a Sri Lankan Medical negligence is not unheard of and patients have died under such circumstances all around the globe. In this day and age one would think that doctors have no bias against a patient’s […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Fugitive whistleblower Edward Snowden hit back at the Hong Kong government on Thursday for rejecting the protection bids of a group of refugees including Sri Lankans who sheltered him while he was hiding out in the city, the AFP reported. The impoverished Philippine and Sri Lankan refugees helped the former US […]

Courtesy RT Saudi Arabia has been pressing US legislators to make amendments to the controversial law that clears the way for lawsuits seeking damages from the kingdom regarding the 9/11 terrorist attacks, according to the Saudi foreign minister. Trends9/11 tragedy, Global terrorism Following an extended trip to the United States, Adel al-Jubeir told reporters on […]

Courtesy NDTV Sri Lanka last allowed a Chinese submarine to dock in the capital of Colombo in October 2014, a move that triggered fierce opposition from India. China defended its military relationship with Sri Lanka as good for regional peace and stability after Sri Lanka rejected a request from China to dock one of its […]

By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today India needs to change its foreign policy vis-a-vis Sri Lanka immediately. These policies have not only failed, but have disastrously backfired on India, ending in a result totally unanticipated and always against India. The extent of the damage caused by their own policies to India can be measured against the […]

By Dr.sripali Vaiamon-Canada MODI JI WHO WILL LOOK INTO SEVERAL INTRICATING PROBLEMS OF INDIAN PEOPLE MIGRATED HERE CENTURIES AGO, WHILE PARTICIPATING IN RELIGIOUS AND BENIFICIAL ACTIVITIES AND STUDY THE CASTE PROBLEM SIMILER TO WHAT IS EXISTING IN INDIA.AUTHOR HAS WELL ILLUSTRATED THIS INTRICASY IN HIS BOOK ON SOCIOLOGY,RELEASED ABOUT FOUR YEARS BACK IN America- PRE-HISTORIC […]

A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission Coming on the heels of the recent lynching, killing and attacks in Pakistan on the pretext of blasphemy, the legislative assembly of Pakistan controlled Azad Kashmir has unanimously passed two resolutions regarding the finality of the Prophet Hood (SAW) and honour and respect of the Prophet’s companions […]

By: Vandita His name is King Leopold II of Belgium and the living incarnation of evil killed over 10 million innocent people in what is now called the Democratic Republic of Congo. Of the Europeans who scrambled for control of Africa at the end of the 19th century, Belgium’s King Leopold II left arguably the […]

by Rachel Blevins     Did you know that the United States dropped more bombs on North Korea in the 1950s than it did on the entire Pacific Theater during World War II? Did you know that the carpet bombing carried out by the United States deliberately targeted civilians, and it included at least 32,000 tons […]

Ajit Kumar Singh Research Fellow, Institute for Conflict Management In the worst attack targeting the Security Forces (SFs), in terms of fatalities, across India, since the June 29, 2010, Jhadha Ghati attack, cadres of the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) killed at least 25 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel and injured another six in […]

by Selvam Canagaratna Courtesy The Island April 22, 2017, 5:45 pm “The American myth is of free will in its simple, primary sense. One can choose oneself and will oneself, and this absurdly optimistic assumption so dominates the republic that it has bred all its gross social injustices.”– John Fowles, Daniel Martin, 1977. For a man […]

Wade Shepard ,  CONTRIBUTOR Courtesy  Forbes  Hambantota Port is set to go to China with an impending deal that will see China Merchants take an 80% share for a specified amount of years.  AFP PHOTO / LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI As regional powers like China, Russia, Japan, and India vie for political and economic position throughout the eastern […]

Courtesy Indian Express Sonu Nigam shaves off hair after azaan row, Muslim cleric asks why he is not wearing garland of shoes.  Sonu Nigam shaved off his hair on Wednesday in response to a Muslim cleric who announced a reward of Rs 10 lakh to anyone who could tonsure the singer. The controversy started after […]

 Loretta Napoleoni Courtesy RT  In many ways terrorism works just like a business, and a costly one – the organization needs arms, supplies, and each recruit needs to be fed and equipped; it all costs money. But where do terrorists get their money? How are the atrocities financed? Is jihad even possible when you have […]

By Robert Fisk  Courtesy Information Clearing House April 18, 2017 “Information Clearing House” –  “The Independent”– It was the Mother of all Hypocrisy. Some dead Syrian babies matter, I guess. Other dead Syrian babies don’t matter. One mass murder in Syria two weeks ago killed children and babies and stirred our leaders to righteous indignation. But the […]

Forbidden Knowledge No doubt, no doubt, no doubt,” that Bashar al-Assad carried out a chemical attack against his own people”, says the psyops machine known as the Mainstream Media. It’s déjà vu all over again. Instead of Yellowcake” and WMDs”, we have a Sarin gas attack”. The ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’ is at full […]

Editorial The Island April 17, 2017, 8:38 pm It looks as if the US had exported too much of democracy to the rest of the world and were faced with a severe shortfall thereof at home as a result. The US has apparently been afflicted with the same ills as the not-so-democratic nations. President Donald […]

Ram Madhvani Sadly the same story continues in many other parts of the world even today – in Libya, Afghanistan, Syria and many other smaller nations where locals are set up to kill each other so that the rich can make more riches and justifying those wars on the pretext of protecting democracy, human rights […]

Markandey katju Former Judge, Supreme Court of India The article was originally published on The Huffington Post. India is inevitably heading for a revolution. Why do I say so ? Let me explain India is potentially a highly developed country, but actually a poor and backward country. It is potentially a highly developed country because it has […]

Courtesy RT A professor who challenged the 2013 claims of a chemical attack in Syria is now questioning the Trump administration’s narrative blaming the Assad government for the April 4 attack in the Idlib province town of Khan Shaykhun. On Tuesday, the White House released a declassified intelligence brief accusing Syrian President Bashar Assad of […]

WITH RAVI LADDUWAHETTY Courtesy  Ceylon Today “In the face of such heinous war crimes, all civilized people must speak with one voice. That is why Canada fully supports the United States’ limited, focused action to degrade the Assad regime’s ability to launch such attacks.” – Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada United States President Donald J. […]

BY RUSSELL A. WHITEHOUS Courtesy Ceylon Today The past few days have been full of so-called coincidences in the Middle East that can’t help, but to raise eyebrows in the post-Iraq War era. On Tuesday, ‘a suspected chemical attack by government forces’ took place in Idlib, one of the few major cities still under rebel control in […]

Courtesy The Telegraph (UK) Boris Johnson had arrived in Italy insisting he was a man with a plan. The Foreign Secretary would use his powers of diplomacy to win the G7’s backing for threatening sanctions against Russia and Syria, which would in turn persuade Vladimir Putin that supporting Bashar al-Assad was no longer worth it. […]

MOSCOW (Sputnik)  It turns out that Ivanka Trump, a mother of three, played a role in her father’s decision to launch a cruise missile strike at a sovereign state, which resulted in the death of several people, according to The Telegraph. — US President Donald Trump’s son Eric Trump confirmed on Tuesday that his sister Ivanka […]

Sputnik.com Russia has intelligence from “trusted sources” that chemical weapons provocations are currently being prepared in more regions in Syria, including Damascus, Russian President Vladimir Putin said after talks with Italian counterpart Sergio Mattarella Tuesday. “We have information from various sources that such provocations — and I cannot call them anything else — are being prepared in other regions […]

RT Russia has information of a potential incident similar to the alleged chemical attack in Idlib province, possibly targeting a Damascus suburb, President Vladimir Putin said. The goal is to discredit the government of Syrian President Assad, he added. We have reports from multiple sources that false flags like this one – and I cannot […]

John Wight  Courtesy Sputnik.com “A cloud no bigger than a man’s hand can be a harbinger of great storms to come.” So goes the biblical injunction and so are the potential ramifications of one “proportionate” and “limited” US airstrike carried out against a Syrian airbase, which in of itself was the military equivalent of a slap […]

Courtesy RT Washington has presented no evidence whatsoever” yet that the Shayrat airfield in Syria’s Homs Province targeted by the US after an alleged chemical attack in Idlib had any such weapons, the Russian Defense Ministry said. Twenty-four hours have passed since the US Navy warships launched a massive missile strike at the Shayrat airfield, […]

Courtesy Pravda After the United States struck a missile blow on Shayrat airfield in Syria’s Homs, many wondered why Russian sophisticated air defence systems, such as Pantsir, S-300, S-400, Buk-M2 and Tor complexes, have not protected Syria from 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles launched by Ross and Porter destroyers. Predictably, Russian liberals and Ukrainian activists rejoiced […]

COLOMBO: Sri Lankan Navy with assistance from India are battling a major fire on board a huge Panama- registered container carrier off the coast of Colombo. The fire broke out last night on the merchant ship MV MSC-Daniela, when the 14,000-container carrier was about 120 nautical miles away from Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka’s Naval spokesman […]