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By S.V.Kirubaharan, France The recent BBC series of hard talk programmes on Sri Lanka presented by Stephen Sackur was well-received globally. This telecasting has shown the good, bad and ugly sides of Sri Lanka...
- What’s Good For The Goose Is Good For The Gander (Category: Breaking News)
- 'BBC meets its match in Sri Lankan Defence Secretary'- The Manila Times (Category: Breaking News)
- The Most powerful man in Sri Lanka is brother Gotabhaya not President Mahinda (Category: Breaking News)
- Hardtalk 4: Is Sri Lanka really entering a new era? (Category: Breaking News)
By Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka I hope everyone saw Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood, with Russell Crowe in the title role. The BBC History channel backed it up with a two hour programme, piecing together the legend from historical fact and circumstance....
- Robin Amos Kahn: When Life Gives You Lemons, Make a Soufflé (Category: Features)
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The recent BBC series of hard talk programmes on Sri Lanka presented by Stephen Sackur was well-received globally. This telecasting has shown the good, bad and ugly sides of Sri Lanka. The true stories about the return of the internally displaced people – IDPs, the present feelings of the Tamils
- Stephen Sackur checkmated Defence Secretary on several occasions during “Hard Talk” BBC interview (Category: Breaking News)
- The Most powerful man in Sri Lanka is brother Gotabhaya not President Mahinda (Category: Breaking News)
- 'BBC meets its match in Sri Lankan Defence Secretary'- The Manila Times (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka threatens to execute General Sarath Fonseka (Category: Breaking News)
BBC HARDtalk 4: Presented by Stephen Sackur: "HARDtalk has come to Sri Lanka, a year after government forces finally defeated the Tamil Tigers, to end Asia's longest running war. But now the talk is of reconciliation and rebuilding; but how...
- Louise Arbour on the responses thus far to ICG report on Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Video: Protest against Burma Military Junta, near Burma Embassy in Colombo (Category: Breaking News)
- Interviews with Mr. Robert Templer of ICG and Dr. A.R.M. Imtiyaz, Temple University (Category: Breaking News)
- Video: Black & White - 15.03.2013 (Category: Video)
BBC HARDtalk III In the third of a special HARDtalk series in Sri Lanka, Stephen Sackur reports on what is happening to the thousands of child soldiers who took part in the war. HARDtalk is the hard-hitting flagship news programme...
- Hardtalk 4: Is Sri Lanka really entering a new era? (Category: Breaking News)
- HARDtalk - Sri Lanka Part 1 - The Tamils and the North (Category: Breaking News)
- 'BBC meets its match in Sri Lankan Defence Secretary'- The Manila Times (Category: Breaking News)
- Hard Talk Part 2 -Democracy Sri Lankan style (Category: Breaking News)
June 16, 2010: 11.00 am Siobhain McDonagh: (Mitcham and Morden) (Lab): I am grateful for the chance to highlight again the appalling treatment of Tamil civilians by the Sri Lankan Government....
- Answer given by British Prime Minister to question on Sri Lanka War Crimes Tribunal (Category: Breaking News)
- British Parliament spotlight on Sri Lanka again (Category: Breaking News)
- Tamil American Peace Initiative Responds to SL Foreign Minister’s US Visit (Category: Breaking News)
- 41 British MPs urge Prime Minister Cameron to support an independent, international war crimes i... (Category: Breaking News)
With its foreboding lighting effects that appear to have been plucked straight out of Dante's dark epic Inferno-and cleverly devised one suspects to reduce its willing, and oftentimes unsuspecting, "victims" to submission-the BBC's HARDtalk program has attained a universal reputation...
- BBC HARDtalk III - Sri Lanka's child soldiers (Category: Breaking News)
- BBC meets its match in Gotabhaya, says news column (Category: Breaking News)
- Hardtalk 4: Is Sri Lanka really entering a new era? (Category: Breaking News)
- HARDtalk - Sri Lanka Part 1 - The Tamils and the North (Category: Breaking News)
By C. A. Chandraprema It was the other day that the BBC aired the full version of the Hard Talk interview with Gotabhaya Rajapakse, and there are certain issues that need to be raised, not about what Gota said in...
- Sarath Fonseka again betrays the motherland (Category: Breaking News)
- Berlin Bluster (Category: Breaking News)
- 'BBC meets its match in Sri Lankan Defence Secretary'- The Manila Times (Category: Breaking News)
- Business interviewing skills: Getting it right (Category: Business)
by Dr.Daya Somasundaram University of Jaffna Abstract The phenomena of suicide bombers in Sri Lanka share some similarities with but also have some marked differences with what is seen in other parts of world today. Increasing discrimination, state humiliation and...
- “I do not think the LTTE can revive” - Thirunavukkarasu Sridharan (Category: Breaking News)
- Fragile State Policy & The Rise Of Muslim Extremism In Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- "The 13th Amendment to the Constitution must be properly implemented": Dharmalingam Siddharthan (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lankan child soldiers the focus of NY based Catholic group (Category: Breaking News)
By Stephen Sackur Presenter, BBC HARDtalk The Sri Lankan government has threatened to execute Sarath Fonseka, the army commander who delivered victory over the Tamil Tigers, if he continues to suggest top officials may have ordered war crimes during the...
- Ex-Army Chief found guilty of ‘White Flag’case statement (Category: Business)
- Sarath Fonseka Confined To A 12ft x 8ft Cell (Category: Breaking News)
- Wars are not gentlemanly affairs: Sri Lanka shouldn’t fear int’l probe (Category: Breaking News)
- “The Rajapaksas Have Found Their Own Hangman!” – Gen. Sarath Fonseka (Category: Breaking News)
To say that the new Sport Minister’s thoughts, Monday, on the Sri Lanka Cricket Board was a breath of fresh air would be an understatement. Rather, Minister C. B. Ratnayake’s remark that cricket is “the third most corrupt institution behind education and the police” was more a tornado, which, while devastating surely the game’s administrators, ...
- New selection committee announced (Category: Breaking News)
- FLASH: Cricket selectors sacked, new panel named (Category: Breaking News)
- Namal approves new cricket selection committee headed by Asantha De Mel (Category: Breaking News)
- Namal approves new cricket selection committee headed by Asantha De Mel (Category: Breaking News)
by M.C.M. Iqbal Louise Arbour of the International Crisis Group is reported to have said during an interview in the BBC that the government violated the laws of war by blurring the line between combatants and civilians, and that its...
- Acquittal of Rishad: AG owes explanation – MP (Category: Breaking News)
- SL attends UNHRC sessions with impressive post-conflict records: Former AG (Category: Business)
- Catholic Church denies backing extension for AG Rajaratnam (Category: Breaking News)
- Friday Forum writes to AG on LLRC (Category: Business)
In an official visit to the USA, Minister of External Affairs Prof. G. L. Peiris has called on the Tamil community all over the world to get involved in the rehabilitation process in Sri Lanka. Peiris, who is scheduled to meet Secretary of State Hilary Clinton on Friday made this comment to the BBC at [...]
The arrest a month ago of Sri Lanka's former army chief and defeated presidential candidate, Gen Sarath Fonseka, along with some of his supporters, has raised fears among rights groups in the country.The authorities accuse the general of having worked...
People in Sri Lanka discuss the latest political developments as they prepare for general elections in April.
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