File photo: Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar is with President Rajapaksa.
The Global Tamil Forum (GTF) wholeheartedly welcomes the statement by Indian External Affairs...
Image: TNA discussed its Constitutional reform proposals with the visiting Indian minister for External affairs Dr. Subramaniam Jaishankar this morning at India House, informed...
Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has recently said that the Provincial Council (PC) elections will be held when the ground situation is conducive. Minister Sarath...
Minister of Public Security, Rear Admiral (retired) Sarath Weerasekara says that Mahinda Rajapaksa Government should have banned the largest Tamil political party, the Tamil...
The President delivered his one year in office statement yesterday.
He urged the Sinhalese that their existential fears should not be a matter of concern...
Given Sri Lanka’s majoritarian turn, appeals to address Tamil aspirations may be ineffectual.
India’s appeal to Sri Lanka to address the aspirations of its Tamil...
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) Leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake reportedly supported the abolition of the Provincial Council system in Sri Lanka in remarks made this...
Mario Arulthas and Madura Rasaratnam.
The Rajapaksa family’s recent resounding electoral successes appear at first sight to mark a decisive break in Sri Lanka’s post-war...
The long awaited 2020 Parliamentary Elections has concluded with a 71% Voter turnout despite the difficulties imposed by the COVID -19 Pandemic threat. Appropriate...
Image: Tamils voting in Jaffna, 2013.
Issuing a statement the Global Tamil Forum has congratulated newly elected MPs Mr. Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam and Mr C.V. Vigneswaran...
TNA releases 12-point election manifesto
Says constitutional arrangement on federal model meets legitimate aspirations of Tamil people
Advocates power-sharing as they existed earlier...
R.Sampanthan.
My attention has been drawn to the interview said to have been given to the media by Mr. M. A. Sumanthiran, President’s Counsel, former...
Image: Defence Secretary Maj. Gen. (Retd) Kamal Gunaratne and visiting Zambian Army Chief Lt. Gen. W.M Sikazwe.
Defence Secretary Maj. Gen. (Retd) Kamal Gunaratne has...
(Suhasini Haidar/The Hindu)
Sri Lankan Prime Minister seeks delay in debt payment.
Sri Lanka wants India to allow debt repayments by Colombo to be deferred for...
(New York) – Respect for fundamental human rights in Sri Lanka is in serious jeopardy following Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s election as president in November 2019, Human Rights...
Why no overtures will be made to Tamils and Muslims by the SLPP until after the parliamentary elections.
(Daily Express) The ruling Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna...
Image: TNA parliamentary group led by its leader R.Sampanthan meeting former president M. Sirisena to discuss issues related to devolution of powers. (file)
" The...
Issuing a statement the National Peace Council has listed three issues that can have impact upon inter-community relations with the state.
The statement says that...
Colombo, Dec 20 (PTI) Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has said he cannot entertain the 2015 UN Human Rights Council resolution co-sponsored by the...
Image: Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. (AP/ File)
In Sri Lanka, with the longest history of universal suffrage in Asia, every election excites the nation, and...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is filling government with ex-top brass in the name of 'professionalizing' island-nation's politics.
by Salman Rafi Sheikh
Even at the height of the Sri...
