Research undertaken by Melbourne's Human Rights Law Centre found that immigration authorities were grossly  underestimating the ongoing danger in Sri Lanka.

 Responding to the Indian External Affairs Minister, Salman Khurshid's, assurance of his participation in the upcoming Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, the DMK party urged Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to announce India's boycott of the summit.

After reports that the TNA had decided to boycott the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, the new chief minister of the Northern Provincial Council, CV Wigneswaran is said to have rejected the decision.

A Pre-CHOGM Forum entitled “The Commonwealth in Colombo: Prospects for the 2013 Commonwealth Summit” was held in Senate House last week, while T

The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) told its Northern Province Chief Minister, C.V Wigneswaran, to boycott the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) today.

David Cameron  outlined, in a meeting with Burmese opposition leader Aung Suu Kyi, that he would travel to Sri Lanka with a “tough message” for the Rajapaksa regime.

The first Chief Minister of the Northern Provincial Council, CV Wigneswaran has said in his inaugural speech that people in the south need to understand that the Tamil people have rejected separatism.

India’s External Affairs Minister Salman Kurshid has confirmed his attendance at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Sri Lanka next month, despite a resolution passed unanimously in Tamil Nadu’s assembly, calling for an Indian boycott of the summit.

The Sri Lankan High Commissioner to India, Prasad Kariyawasam, warned that India will be isolated if PM Manmohan Singh boycotts the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.

 A trade union in Sri Lanka’s education sector deplored the withdrawal of allowances granted to teaching assistants in the North-East, today.