• TNA candidate Ananthy Sasitharan explains what drives her

    Aug 18

    Speaking at the Jaffna Press Club last week, Tamil National Alliance’s candidate for the Jaffna district, Ananthy Sasitharan, expressed her desire to meet with Navi Pillay, and outline the harsh realities of the situation in the North-East, and reiterated that th

  • SL navy sailors arrested over people smuggling
    Four members of the Sri Lankan Navy have been arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle asylum seekers to Australia, reports the Age.

    Three sailors and 'one civilian attached to the navy' were arrested for their role in attempting to smuggle 111 asylum seekers on boat to Australia from Galle.

    108 out of the 111 of the group were Tamil.

    Tamil MPs have often spoken out about the navy being involved in profit-making smuggling rings.
  • Peiris to arrive in India as Karunanidhi calls for boycott

    External Affairs Minister GL Peiris is due to arrive in India today to invite Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to the Commonwealth heads of Government Meeting in Sri Lanka later this year.

    Tamil Nadu opposition leader M Karunanidhi has warned of protests and blockades if Singh does not declare a boycott of the event.

  • Govt launches trilingual newspaper in Northern Province
    Government distributes its newly launched newspaper to schoolchildren in Jaffna.
  • TNA supporters assaulted

    The Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE) verified an incident of election related violence on Saturday.

  • The TNA - in Tamil and English
    Following on from a recent visit to Canada with the TNA MP M.A. Sumanthiran, the leader of the Tamil National Alliance, R. Sampanthan, addressed the Tamil diaspora in the UK this week, during two public events in London, hosted by the TNA-UK.
  • TNA campaigners arrested

    A group of five Tamil National Alliance (TNA) supporters were arrested after putting up posters in support of the Vavuniya District candidate, M.M Rathan.

  • Peiris hails CHOGM triumph for SL foreign policy, Britain expects progress on rights issues

    The Sri Lankan External Affairs Minister GL Peiris said that the country’s hosting of the forthcoming Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting is a triumph for Sri Lanka’s foreign policy.

  • Gotabhaya demands solid evidence of 40000 Tamil deaths in 2009

    Defence Secretary,Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, challenged the United Nations to provide evidence used in the reports that found that at least 40,000 Tamil civilians were killed during the final stages of the war. 

  • New bill against defamation of religion

    The Ministry of Buddha Sasana and Religious Affairs is goig to introduce a law to outlaw the publication of the “original teachings and traditions” of major religions.

  • Magistrate orders removal of mosque sign

     Magistrate Namal Perera ordered that a sign board erected in front of a mosque that reads, ‘Mosque ahead – Keep silence’ be removed within 14 days.

  • SL promises to back Nigeria at UN Sec Council
    Sri Lanka has promised to support Nigeria in its bid for a non-permanent seat at the UN Security Council, reports the Colombo Gazette.

    According to the paper, the Nigerian President, Goodluck Jonathan revealed Sri Lanka's pledge after a meeting wtih the Sri Lanka's new High Commissioner to Nigeria, Anura Liyanage.
  • The company you keep
    Mahinda Rajapaksa will lead a business delegation to Belarus later this month to participate in a joint business forum between the two countries. In October last year, the EU renewed sanctions on Belarus based on the country's failure to improve its human rights record.
  • Resettlement continues

    Residents from a village in the District of Mannar have raised concerns, this week, over a ‘special resettlement’ programme under which 1,300 Sinhalese families from Anuradhapura are to be resettled in Mannar, reported Sri Lankan news

  • India aims to double bi-lateral trade with SL

    Speaking at the 67th Indian national day celebrations, Indian High Commissioner Y K Sinha, highlighted India’s aim to double bi-lateral trade with Sri Lanka to

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