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by Amarnath Amarasingam The recent revelation that members of the federal and provincial Conservative Party have been getting into bed with former members of the World Tamil Movement (WTM), banned as a terrorist organization in Canada since 2008, was not...
- Tigers not a factor any more says Canadian Tamil Activist (Category: Breaking News)
- Group of Canadian parliamentarians schedule to visit SriLanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Canadian PM under attack over candidates alleged Tamil Tiger links (Category: Breaking News)
- Mr Harper should be 'ashamed' of MV Sun Sea ad and Tamil refugees - Bob Rae (Category: Breaking News)
by Anthony Reinhart Tories trying to win support from South Asians in Ontario have opened the door to remnants of a Tamil Tiger front group the federal Conservatives themselves banned in 2008. The unlikely association, forged behind a curtain of...
- Conservative Party gets entangled in post May 2009 Tamil diaspora politics in Ontario (Category: Breaking News)
- Harper brushes off questions over Tamil candidate Paranchothy who praised terrorist group LTTE (Category: Breaking News)
- Lankan origin candidate claims he had no sympathy for terrorists (Category: Breaking News)
- Canada: More furore over personalised stamps bearing Tamil Tiger symbols (Category: Breaking News)
18 Days That Shook The World How People Power Worked By Charles Levinson And Margaret Coker Hosni Mubarak was thrust by violence into the leadership of the Arab world’s most populous country, and has been forced out by a wave of popular protest. Stability had been the watchword of his presidency, with emergency law — ...
- U.S. is both angel, devil for Egyptian protesters (Category: USA, South Carolina)
- Egypt soccer violence kills 74, fans turn on army (Category: Business)
- Chaos erupts in Cairo as Mubarak supporters attack protesters (Category: USA, South Carolina)
- Egyptian Peoples Revolt Has Deep Lessons For Both Oppressed and Oppressor in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
When voters went to the polls two years ago, Nikki Haley was a South Carolina state representative mostly known for backing Gov. Mark Sanford's vetoes and stepping on toes in a push to force lawmakers to record every one of their votes.Alvin Greene was toiling away in the Army, an anonymous grunt
- NSW fugitives held in South Australia (Category: South Australia)
- Young man drowns swimming at beach (Category: AU, New South Wales)
- How do you cycle to the South Pole? (Category: Technology)
- Northern-ish Lights (Category: Technology)
by Tisaranee Gunasekara Basil Rajapaksa is unabashed in claiming that in Sri Lanka an era of ‘ruler kings’ has begun. Western ideas of transparency, he claims, along with limits of presidential power and accountability, are not relevant to ‘Asian Culture’.”...
- Stop intimidating judiciary,end undermining democracy,hold elections (Category: Breaking News)
- Compliance with Rajapaksas is the only way to prosper in the Rajapaksa - Land (Category: Breaking News)
- DNA to inundate President with messages for SFs release (Category: Breaking News)
- A True Democratic Leadership (Category: Breaking News)
THAT the second testing of his urine sample might clear Manju Wanniarachchi of any wrongdoing and so restore his Commonwealth Games gold medal is pretty much a hope that rides on the wings of a prayer. The truth though is, hardly ever does the result of a second examination (for banned substance in the system ...
- Manju makes Dian’s dream come true (Category: Breaking News)
- Kicking A Fallen Boxer Is No Clean Up Job (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka wins historic Gold (Category: Breaking News)
- Delayed AGM Leaves New ABA With A Heavy Backlog (Category: Breaking News)
Two weeks ago, Dr Dayan Jayatilleka alleged that I had drafted a constitutional amendment in the 1970s in an abortive attempt to enable Mrs Bandaranaike to extend her term of office. Last week, in an article in which he transported...
- Defending the indefensible: Rejoinder to Dr. Nihal Jayawickrama (Category: Breaking News)
- Abolishing The Executive Presidency – Is Time Running Out? (Category: Breaking News)
- The burial of democracy - A response to Dr Dayan Jayatilaka’s spurious allegation (Category: Breaking News)
- The Mother of all discontents (Category: Breaking News)
NOT that our little world of sport was at peace with itself last week and so free of issues that might warrant critical scrutiny. If there was such bliss for seven straight days, then, it must’ve been in some other land; over here (where, as the popular joke says, God deems it unnecessary to station ...
- The Ring Is A Women’s World (Category: Breaking News)
- Indo-Lanka Dual Next Week (Category: Breaking News)
- Anusha Hits Road To London (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lankan boxer Nilmini Jayasinghe targets 2012 Olympics (Category: Breaking News)
By Tisaranee Gunasekara “Today there was total confusion in Sri Rajapaksistan (formerly Sri Lanka) when thousands and thousands of people changed their name to “Rajapaksa” to get into Parliament or even get a job… Hospital authorities report that all new...
- Sri Lanka debates on constitutional reforms (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka parliament approves constitutional reforms with two-third majority (Category: Breaking News)
- UNP, JVP scared to face another Presidential Poll - CP Governor (Category: Breaking News)
- The 18th Amendment and the reawakening of President Rajapaksa (Category: Breaking News)
By Anushka Gunawardena President Mahinda Rajapaksa at a meeting with editors and publishers last Monday, September 7th at Temple Trees, produced a copy of an affidavit claiming to be from the Samurdhi officer where he had said he had willingly asked to be tied to a tree, based on Silva having threatened to do so if ...
- Mervyn testifies (Category: Breaking News)
- Silva’s Disciplinary Inquiry Continues (Category: Breaking News)
- Committee concludes probe on Mervin, final report next week (Category: Breaking News)
- Mervin not guilty, decides committee (Category: Breaking News)
One need not journey to the mountains of Afghanistan or Pakistan to discover evil. We have our own home-grown variety of dangerous extremism here in Florida. The Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville, whose pastor Terry Jones has written a book called Islam is of the Devil, believes he is called by God to defeat non-Christians in general, and Muslims in specific. Terry Jones has...
- Tawheed The Essence Of Islam, Terrorism Essence Of The Wicked, Incorrigible Devil (Category: Breaking News)
- Facebook To Probe ‘Grease Devil’ (Category: Breaking News)
- “When Devil Rules …” (Category: Breaking News)
- “When Devil Rules …” (Category: Breaking News)
By a special correspondent Exclusive to BBC Sinhala service The alert and watchful eyes of weary soldiers scanned every vehicle passing through the checkpoints. Broken, torn buildings tower over the tiny UNHCR tents on the gardens and court yards. Hanging...
- Tamil anxiety over Army camps changing demography in N-E (Category: Breaking News)
- U.K. Tamil Activist "Moved" by Sonia Gandhi's Gesture (Category: Breaking News)
- Police beefs up security (Category: Breaking News)
- Police beefs up security (Category: Breaking News)
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