Chief Justice S.S. Selvanayagam The Court of Appeal yesterday ( Oct 4) submitted to the Supreme Court a reference for its interpretation/determination on the question relating to the interpretation of the Constitution whether the expression of the views of the Provincial Council includes the expression of the view of the Governor when a Provincial Council […]

Sri Lankan Buddhist monks stage a protest rally outside the Bangladesh High Commission in Colombo (AFP) Raashid Riza The last few months have seen a rapid increase in anti-Muslim sentiment amongst sections of the political class in Sri Lankan society. The situation has yet to deteriorate to the extent that the default image of a […]

Interfering in the religious freedom of Hindus and Muslims in Ampaa’rai, the occupying Sinhala military has appropriated an Islamic burial ground at Koddukkal in Poththuvil division of the district while instructing the administration of an ancient Murukan temple, worshipped by the Saivites for centuries, to stop the renovation of the temple. The head of the […]

The Centre has granted permission to DMK treasurer M.K. Stalin and the its parliamentary party leader T.R. Baalu to visit New York and Geneva to hand over resolutions passed at a recent conference of the Tamil Eelam Supporters’ Organisation (TESO) to the UN Secretary-General and the UN Human Rights Council, DMK president M. Karunanidhi said […]

Construction on the newly repaired A9 road by JAMES MORGAN Dr. Harsha De SilvaThe very recent fiscal and government borrowing numbers released by the Central Bank fail to inspire confidence in the economy and concerns are mounting that taxes could be raised while key public investments too could be cut as was the case in […]

FUTA10212 Jayadeva UyangodaThe demand made by the FUTA for increased allocation of annual government expenditure on education has now emerged as a national policy slogan, with many sectors of society adopting it as their own demand. This is a key achievement made by the FUTA in its three-month long struggle’ Some, even those in the […]

A returnee settlement in Puthumathalan4 Photo by author Marisa de Silva   Recently returned to Puthumathalan“As you drive past pile upon pile of corroding vehicles stacked one above the other, past pots, pans, sarees, slippers and plates (that once belonged to the people here), strewn all over the ground, and past the bullet and shrapnel splattered […]

No other way of showing anger: TKS Elangovan on Tamil sentiment on Sri Lanka “At the same time, we believe that India, by proposing a resolution seeking UN’s intervention, will put an end to the present situation (of Tamils’ alleged hardships) and enable them choose their rights,” it said, adding India should take all efforts […]

gotabaya grab1 Dr. Jehan Perera  The increase in the economic rate of growth that has taken place in the Sri Lankan economy since the end of the war puts it amongst the better performing countries. Colombo has now got Gotabaya facilities that the more demanding international visitor has come to expect, and indeed it is […]

Indian Consul General V.Mahalingam handing over housing documents to a beneficiary to mark the inauguration of the second phase of the Indian Housing project for internally displaced people at a school in Periyamadhu in Mannar district on Tuesday. Photo: R.K.Radhakrishnan R. K. Radhakrishnan   1 This is part of India’s commitment to build 50,000 houses […]

Ruki “Why can’t the Army go to the jungles instead of taking our lands and sending us to jungles?”“When will we be allowed to re-start cultivation of our lands?”“When can we have access to the sea we were fishing before and will we get back the boats and fishing equipment we left behind in our […]

Kishan Three persons claiming to be from police had stormed the boarding room of editor of yukthiya.com (http://yukthiya.com/) Krishantha Rajapakse and forced him to answer questions, before making a hasty retreat with the arrival of the owner of the place. The journalist had been drafting a letter at his room around 1.30 pm, when the […]

Mu’l’livaaykkaal bunker area. An official who recently visited the outskirts of Mu’l’livaaykkaal with the soldiers of the Sri Lanka Army told TamilNet this week that he had personally witnessed skeletal remains of hundreds of slain people surfacing along the few kilometers long, L-shaped bunker, running from Vadduvaakal to northwards along the land of the genocidal […]

 Laksiri Fernando“They see governments come like water and go with the wind. They owe no loyalty to ministers, not even the temporary loyalty which civil servants owe…” – Jag GriffithThe judiciary in Sri Lanka is under threat. There cannot be any doubt about it. The extent and gravity might be the dispute, if any. First […]

No country can survive for too long without respect for the rule of law, the Organization of Professional Associations Sri Lanka says.In a press release titled ‘Independence of Judiciary’ the OPA calls upon the Executive to act in a manner that would prevent any undermining of the independence of the judiciary.Full text of the OPA […]

forced relocation (photo GV) Ranga JayasuriyaThe National Security State reigns supreme even three and a half years after the end of the war. A military camp erected in a remote hamlet of Keppapulavu in Mullaitivu has prevented 110 families among the last batch of Internally Displaced Persons (IDP), who were released from Menik Farm from […]

”We have learnt from Professor Amal Kumarage of Moratuwa that from October 2012, a Senior Professor, the highest level of employment as an academic in a university, will be paid about Rs.150,000 per month. A senior professor has one or more higher degrees, often including a Ph.D. degree, which is not true for staff in […]

A young man looks to the camera in Jaffna, . Finding paid work – especially for youths – is still difficult in Sri Lanka’s former conflict zone in the north even after three years of peace and massive infrastructure projects, experts say, pointing to the region’s anaemic private sector as a main cause. Although official […]

The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL), in its report, which is to be taken into consideration during Sri Lanka’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), has recommended that the country should abolish the death penalty, officials said yesterday.The HRCSL encouraged the government to enact the Right to […]

Reaching australia Sri Lanka Navy had intercepted nearly 2400 Sri Lankans bound to Australia from 1 January 2012 to date, Navy Media Spokesperson Commander Kosala Warnakulasuriya told Asian Tribune. Accordingly he said all such persons bound to Australia who had been arrested by the Navy had been handed over to Criminal Investigation Department after lodging […]