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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)
- Robin C. Miller (Category: USA, Indiana)
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Inquiries are to be held over allegations that pregnancy test are being held prior to employing workers in tea plantations of Sri Lanka, BBCs Tamil service Thamil Osai has reported quoting Plantations Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe. ....
from the BBC: The Sri Lankan foreign minister has said that a UN panel on human rights will not be allowed into the country. GL Peiris said that there was "no need" for the panel to come to the country...
- Sri Lanka says UN panel 'will not be allowed' to enter (Category: Breaking News)
- Head of UN panel of experts expresses regret over Sri Lankan government's decision (Category: Breaking News)
- Lanka’s UN allies express solidarity (Category: Breaking News)
- Reaction (Category: Business)
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)
By Matthew Russell Lee Sri Lanka's Rajapaksa administration insists that its panel on "Lessons Learned" is a sufficient response to reports of tens of thousands of civilians killed in the final stage of the conflict last year. On June 18,...
- Money robbed from Palitha Kohono: Investigations against inner city press journalist (Category: Breaking News)
- Russia opposed (Category: Breaking News)
- UN Panel of Experts' report Russia opposes (Category: Breaking News)
- Accountability is up to SL-France (Category: Breaking News)
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)
BBC HARDTalk, June 2010 In the second of Hardtalk's exclusive series of programmes in Sri Lanka, Stephen Sackur talks to journalists who live with the threat of intimidation and murder. He talks to the opposition presidential candidate, former General Sarath...
- 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)
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)
HARDtalk - Sri Lanka Part 1 - The Tamils and the North: Hardtalk on the road in Sri Lanka: In May 2009, after almost 30 years of civil war, Sri Lanka's government announced its defeat of the separatist Liberation Tigers...
- Louise Arbour on the responses thus far to ICG report on Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- “Our military was a highly disciplined military.” - Gotabaya Rajapaksa (Category: Breaking News)
- යුද හමුදාව – කැන්ඩි කස්ටම්ස් ජය වාර්තා කරති (Category: Sports)
- Interviews with Mr. Robert Templer of ICG and Dr. A.R.M. Imtiyaz, Temple University (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 (or should that be notoriety?) for tough and bruising interviews that border on intimidation.
Referring to the recent globally televised BBC talk show HARDtalk with Sri Lankas Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, The Manila Times states today that this particular edition of HARDtalk was undoubtedly game, set and match to him (Sackur). And TV viewers worldwide could attest to that! ....
"Freedom when?" was what many at the "wedding ceremony" asked according to BBC Sandeshaya and tweets remarked the military marriage of militants "hugely oversteps ethical boundaries". The ceremony attracted widespread media coverage. Reports say the mass wedding was held under...
- Military mass wedding for LTTE suspects (Category: Breaking News)
- Former LTTE Âmass wedding planned (Category: Breaking News)
- Former Sri Lankan Tiger rebels say 'I do' in mass wedding (Category: Breaking News)
- Re-habilitated ex-combatants wed (Category: Breaking News)
Fonseka responds to Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s BBC interview By Mandana Ismail Abeywickrema Responding to statements made against him by Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa to the BBC’s HardTalk programme on Sri Lanka last week, former Army Commander and DNA Parliamentarian Retired General Sarath
- Case filed against suspects tried to kill President and Defence Secretary (Category: Breaking News)
- HC summons Defence Secretary as witness (Category: Breaking News)
- Army Allows Fonseka To Attend Parliament (Category: Breaking News)
- Police empowered (Category: Breaking News)
The headline and two articles of four in the front page of The Sunday Leader of last week was on money. The lead article screamed “UNP Leader Got Rs. 48 mn From One ‘Donor’” . The other two titles were: “One Billion Rupees For IIFA”; “Sumal Wants Rs. 19 bn For Waters Edge”. With pulse racing ...
- The Maid Who Gave Them Breakfast in Bed is Now Confined to Bed (Category: Breaking News)
- Washing machine cat is feline dizzy (Category: AU, New South Wales)
- Gets Oscars presenting gig (Category: Business)
- Megyn Kelly pulls sons from ‘woke’ UWS school over anti-white letter (Category: USA, New York)
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)
Imprisoned former Sri Lankan armed forces chief General (retired) Sarath Fonseka has denied being a liar or having committed treason. The BBC said that he was responding to government allegations of him committing war crimes during fighting against the Tamil Tiger rebels. Fonseka spoke
- Fonseka won't care about power and position: Daughter Apsara (Category: Breaking News)
- Audio: He will move forward- Apsara (Category: Breaking News)
- Anoma makes statement at Fort police -Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- President Meets Anoma Fonseka (Category: Breaking News)
Former Army Commander Sarath Fonseka has told the BBC that all countries should impose maximum power to influence Sri Lanka. He made this reference joining in BBC’s hard talk programme. It is Anoma Fonseka who had supported Sarath Fonseka to join in this programme. This was confirmed
- Fonseka won't care about power and position: Daughter Apsara (Category: Breaking News)
- Audio: He will move forward- Apsara (Category: Breaking News)
- Anoma makes statement at Fort police -Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- The General`s major problem (Category: Breaking News)
When Adaderana contacted the Defence Secretary over the much discussed news item on BBCs Hardtalk, where Sri Lankas Secretary of Defence Gotabhaya Rajapaksa had reportedly stated that Sri Lanka could execute General Sarath Fonseka, he said what he had meant was if Fonseka was found guilty
The Sri Lankan Military had not violated human rights at any time. This has been emphasized by Defence Secretary Gothabaya Rajapaksa joining in “Hard Talk” telecast by the BBC. He said Sri Lanka’s Military was highly disciplined. There was not a single case of soldiers marching into a village
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)
- Friday Forum writes to AG on LLRC (Category: Business)
- Prosecute Police Officers Found By Supreme Court: Human Rights Commission Tells AG (Category: Breaking News)
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 [...]
External Affairs Minister Prof. G.L.Peiris has urged the Tamil Diaspora worldwide to get involved in the rehabilitation process after the end of the conflict. Speaking from UN headquarters in New York, Professor Peiris told BBC News that the Sri Lankan Government was stepping up its effort
- Worldwide Prayer Meetings to Support Tamil's Non-Violent Actions Inside Sri Lanka: TGTE (Category: Breaking News)
- Scotland yard informs Diaspora that Rajapakse at last minute postponed his travel by due to huge... (Category: Breaking News)
- KP-Diaspora programme operated by SL Military Intelligence: Doctor Arudkumar (Category: Breaking News)
- Plans afoot to distribute school text books (Category: Breaking News)
by Austin Fernando BBC reported that India has called for effective devolution in Sri Lanka. This has been recently orchestrated at an academic experts’ dialogue held in Delhi. This is a repeated Indian demand....
by BBC - Sandeshaya The former Sri Lankan military chief, General Sarath Fonseka, says any war crimes committed against Tamils should be exposed and punished....
told BBC Radio Solent: "There’s nothing we can do. "He can’t get a flight at the...
- David Shapiro: Finding laughs between groans as election goes overtime (Category: USA, Hawaii)
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- Vaccines offer the key to speed of Hawaii’s economic recovery (Category: USA, Hawaii)
- Vaccines offer the key to speed of Hawaii’s economic recovery (Category: USA, Hawaii)
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