Chief Minister of the Northern Province, C.V. Wigneswaran and the Northern Provincial Councillors boycotted a visit by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe to Jaffna yesterday,...
Military destroying the houses A group of Tamil National Alliance (TNA) parliamentarians and Northern Provincial Councillors have visited Valikamam North and urged the Army...
Shivshankar Menon India is to send National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon to Sri Lanka next month for talks with President Mahinda Rajapaksa and other...
Devolution is a scheme for dividing the countryPower should be devolved according the wishes of the majority as this is a democratically elected government.If...
Athuraliye Rathana, ( with the mike) extremist Buddhist monk form JHU is leading the processFollowing the construction of Buddhist stupas with the deployment of...
Demonstration in Colombo by Equal Rights Movement ( photo : Lanka views)The Sri Lankan military and the police continued their arrests of Tamil youth...
Jaffna students walking past a destroyed building ( photo : Diplomat)Jaffna, the capital of Sri Lanka’s Northern Province and once the bastion of the...
Jaffna Uni students demands justice (photo:Tamilnet)Global Tamil Forum (GTF) strongly deplores the attack, by members of the Sri Lankan security forces on Jaffna University...
By ignoring the restorations of ruined Hindu, Christian and Islamic worship centers, by constructing new Buddhist Temples in the north and east will not...
Former Foreign Minister, Rohitha Bogollagama yesterday said the Government should not fear international criticism over the issue of the 13th Amendment but should have...
Several allies of the ruling United Peoples Freedom Alliance (UPFA) have decided to continue their campaign to pressure President Mahinda Rajapaksa to abrogate the...
Close on the heels of Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa reiterating his call for abolition of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, the National Freedom...
Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa yesterday reiterated that post-war political strategy of Tamil National Alliance (TNA) left him with no alternative but to strongly recommend...
Tamil politicians and civil activists on Wednesday protested condemning the brutal attack Sunday on Paramsothy Vasanthakumar, the elected chairman of Nalloor Piratheasa Chapai (PS)....
UP country Tamils:a section of the citizens who voted in the 1947 elections were deprived of their citizenship itself and their franchise soon after...
Ambassador Ariyasinghe Addressing the 63rd Session of the Executive Committee of the UNHCR on Tuesday (2nd October 2012) Sri Lanka's Permanent Representative to the...
Recent photo of a resettled IDP family Tamil National Alliance Chief Rajavarothiam Sampanthan today debunked the Sri Lankan government's claim that all of the...
Life in Aananthapuram, a neighbouring place to KeappaapulavuThe Tamil National People's Front (TNPF) organized a protest in front of the Mullaitivu Government Agent's office...
LTTE leaders arrested but disappeared Tasha Manoranjan/Pasumai Thaayagam / 21 session HRCThank you Madam President. Pasumai Thaayagam welcomes this Council’s attention to the tragic...
Anti Deportation protest in London by TamilsMore shocking evidence of torture in Sri Lanka has been published today by Freedom from Torture, highlighting the...
The resultThe Communist Party of Sri Lanka (CPSL) yesterday proposed that the government and the Opposition explore the possibility of forming a joint provincial...
Chief Minister Jayalalitha: tough stand Gulbin Sultana/Institute of Defence studies and Analyses The much-talked about Tamil Nadu factor in India-Sri Lanka relations has come...
Sampanthan: East won by parties opposed to UPFAThe elections to the Eastern Provincial Council have concluded and the results have been announced. The ruling...
Blue Brigade headed by Namal Rajapaksha enters East Certain events have occurred in the past several days which have raised grave misgivings in regard...
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...
Caroon by Avantha Artigala.
Militarisation of civilian space began during the first Rajapaksa regime. Yet, it didn’t cause public concern, except amongst certain civil society...
