The Thulhiriya-based BAM Knitting started in 2005, as the fabric manufacturing and finishing arm of BAM Holdings

By Shamindra Ferdinando Manohara de Silva, PC, says the rejection by the US of a visa application by Gotabaya Rajapaksa towards the tail end of the latter’s presidential term may allow Western powers to arrest him in terms of the Geneva Resolution. The President’s Counsel emphasised that the Geneva Resolution authorised universal jurisdiction by accepting […]

Some of the protesters said India should not use Sri Lanka's vulnerable position to take advantage in business deals.

Image Courtesy of Women Working “The sleep of reason produces monsters.” –Goya (Title of the 43rd etching in the Los Caprichos series) The tyranny of unreason does not stop at the borders...

Image Courtesy of Women Working “The sleep of reason produces monsters.” –Goya (Title of the 43rd etching in the Los Caprichos series) The tyranny of unreason does not stop at the borders...

Image Courtesy of Women Working “The sleep of reason produces monsters.” –Goya (Title of the 43rd etching in the Los Caprichos series) The tyranny of unreason does not stop at the borders...

Image Courtesy of Women Working “The sleep of reason produces monsters.” –Goya (Title of the 43rd etching in the Los Caprichos series) The tyranny of unreason does not stop at the borders...

When the crisis story of Dayan Anthony's deportation to Sri Lanka by the Australian federal authorities hit the headlines in late July the so-called FACTS retailed by the reporters of the Australian and Ian Rintoul, as spokesman for the Refugee Action Coalition, were riddled with discrepancies. (i) They also believed his relatives' claim that Anthony had been tortured when originally arrested in 2...

Amanda Hodge reports from on board a Sri Lankan navy ship as it transfers 28 failed asylum seekers in a midnight operation.

When the crisis story of Dayan Anthony's deportation to Sri Lanka by the Australian federal authorities hit the headlines in late July the so-called FACTS retailed by the reporters of the Australian and Ian Rintoul, as spokesman for the Refugee Action Coalition, were riddled with discrepancies. (i) They also believed his relatives' claim that Anthony had been tortured when originally arrested in 2...

Amanda Hodge reports from on board a Sri Lankan navy ship as it transfers 28 failed asylum seekers in a midnight operation.

By Lakshman Indranath Keerthisinghe - Attorney-at-Law After checking in to Chaya Blue Resort, from our balcony, we watched the glorious sight of the scarlet sun accompanied by a blanket of streaks of orange clouds setting over the distant yellowish horizon as the blue waters of the lovely Indian Ocean lapped on the golden beaches of ...

Independent Television Network has again been honoured with several Awards amidst high public response. ITN is Year’s People’s Channel as well as the Nationa’s Youth Channel. The Peoples Awards Nite, which was a joint effort by the Sri Lanka Institute of Marketing and Nielsen, the largest Research Company in Sri Lanka was organized on a ...

By Amanda Morrow It’s often mistakenly called “Little Bombay”, but the lively neighbourhood that stretches from the rue du Faubourg-St-Denis north to La Chapelle is actually home to Paris’s Tamil community. The air is often fragrant in this quarter –...

by Associated Press More than three years after federal agents locked up a Sri Lankan immigrant they say was the top U.S. representative of the Tamil Tigers, his fate may hinge on a complex question: Was the rebel group a...

Chick Flick Vs Masterpiece Chick flick is slang for a film designed to appeal to a female  target audience. Although many types of films may be directed toward the female gender, ‘chick flick’ is typically used only in reference to films that are heavy with emotion or contain themes that are relationship-based (though not necessarily ...

The Australian Youth Climate Coalition (AYCC) has set up a website that allows voters to deliver an automated telephone message to their local federal MP. The messages, known as robocalls, are more commonly associated with presidential campaigns in the United States. The calls were first introduced to Australia by former prime minister John Howard during the 2004 election campaign and have since...

Chloe: An Erotic Thriller By Atom Egoyan By Sumaya Samarasinghe Chloe by Canadian Director, Atom Egoyan has been described as an ‘erotic thriller’ starring Liam Neeson, Julianne Moore and Amanda Seyfried in the title role. The categorization of this film may cause confusion to some who may mistake it with pornography. Chloe is nothing of the sort, ...