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| by Kishali Pinto Jayawardene ( May 06, 2012, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Religious fundamentalists of all faiths have just one attribute in common. The beliefs that they profess are a mere cloak, hiding maggots crawling around in their minds feasting on hate, bigotry and ignorance. Insanities of religious fundamentalists These are not new tales but rather the lessons taught by humankind's devas...
- Geneva - Gearing up for the next round. (Category: Breaking News)
- Buddhism gone berserk (Category: Breaking News)
- Libya immunizes ‘Revolutionaries’ from War Crimes Prosecution (Category: Breaking News)
- Taking that extra step towards national reconciliation (Category: Breaking News)
The solar energy development will not face any obstruction as it generates energy through sunlight. Being alternative energy source, it is sustainable as well as eco-friendly. An American political activist Ralph Nader writes- 'the use of solar energy has not opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun. 'Yes! if we use the costly diesel generators to tide over long load shedding...
- How long will power cuts be? (Category: Breaking News)
- NO POWER CUTS (Category: Breaking News)
- No power cuts without advance notice – CEB (Category: Breaking News)
- Power cuts during today as well (Category: Breaking News)
Egypt Just Annulled Mubarak's Natural Gas Giveaway | by Franklin Lamb ( May 02, 2012, Beirut, Sri Lanka Guardian ) The Egyptian people are demanding the return of their sovereignty. According to recent opinion surveys they believe it was partially ceded to Israel by the two post-Nasser dictators, Anwar Sadat and Hosni Mubarak, at the behest of American administrations, from Nixon to Obama. The r...
- Blocking Palestinian Entry To UN Will Keep Middle East A Pot Boiling (Category: Breaking News)
- Hosni Mubarak jailed for life (Category: Breaking News)
- Egypt ups security after Israel embassy violence (Category: Business)
- Palestinians Are Going To Be The Eventual Victims In The Middle East (Category: Breaking News)
By H. L. D. Mahindapala From time to time Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu (“Paki” hereinafter) along with a side-kick, put on comic shows as good as Laurel & Hardy’s, minus, of course, the pantomime. The latest show was aired on a TV channel where both focused on the US Resolution (Surprise! Surprise!) that was passed by the UNHRC. The triumphalism of this duo was visible and audible, particularly w...
- Sri Lanka seeks rethink; India stands ground on UN resolution (Category: Breaking News)
- US tells UNHRC time is slipping away in Lanka (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka face problems by US resolution: Minister G.L.Peiris (Category: Breaking News)
- Move at U.N. on Carnage in Sri Lanka Sets Off Fury: The New York times (Category: Breaking News)
British Prime Minister David Cameron last week expressed alarm over the spread of dementia among British patients saying that it was a scandal that the disease was being ignored with a quarter of patients in hospitals suffering from the disease. He doubled funding towards treatment of the disease from 26 million pounds sterling to 66 ...
- Sri Lanka conducting diplomatic relations with India closely: President (Category: Business)
- Maintaining hard-won peace (Category: Business)
- The Indianisation Of A Chinese Rajapaksa (Category: Breaking News)
- The meaning of independence (Category: Business)
“Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision” – Ayn Rand, Russian-American Novelist Queueing for bread Forgotten are the days when people waited in line for two to three hours to buy a loaf of bread; forgotten are the days when rice was not available ...
- NO END IN SIGHT:Tamil’s being searched and detained again in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Politics of power has destroyed the power of politics (Category: Breaking News)
- The Reformists must criticise the ruling regime and the Rajapaksas not Ranil (Category: Breaking News)
- How the West is losing Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
The people for the past three decades have suffered the steady rise in the cost of living with great forbearance. We have no ready index to point to for this Himalayan climb other than the price of bread which Chandrika Kumaratunga in her presidential bid vowed to reduce to Rs 3 per loaf. Now the ...
- Malaysian government would loss many votes by supporting SriLanka at UNHRC (Category: Breaking News)
- Construction work of the bridge in Dharmapuram area stopped (Category: Breaking News)
- SL government organize massive protest campaign in front of UN Human Rights Council in Geneva (Category: Breaking News)
- Rathika Sitsabaiesan welcomes US resolution against SriLanka (Category: Breaking News)
Reporters Without Borders calls on all members of the Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council, which began its 19th session yesterday, to pass a resolution condemning the Sri Lankan government’s violations of freedom of information and to demand an end to threats and violence against news media and human rights defenders in Sri Lanka. “For ...
- Alarming Increase in hostile rhetoric, threats of reprisals against exiled journalists from Sri ... (Category: Breaking News)
- U.N. to investigate Prageeth Eknelygoda's disappearance (Category: Breaking News)
- UN urged to contact wife of missing Sri Lankan cartoonist (Category: Breaking News)
- Media Freedom In Sri Lanka; Why Are Journalists’ Murder Investigations Being Avoided? (Category: Breaking News)
Harsh rhetoric and emotional outbursts before the commencement of the19th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council next week in Geneva have obfuscated the objectives of the resolution to be moved against Sri Lanka at the sessions. The issue on alleged war crimes committed by Sri Lankan servicemen has polarised into a debate of ...
- Activists urge India to vote against Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Lanka resolution: Uproar in parliament, India undecided (Category: Breaking News)
- DMK supports US resolution against Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- PM: LTTE Sympathizers Trying To Make War Crimes Charges Again (Category: Breaking News)
President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s speech to the nation on Independence Day provided an indication of his two major concerns for the future. One concern was the persistent international pressure on his government on human rights issues during and after the end of the war. The other concern was the efforts to destabilize the government through mass agitation ...
- LLRC Report reflects enlightened Sri Lankan thinking (Category: Breaking News)
- US will support resolution on Sri Lanka at HRC sessions in Geneva (Category: Breaking News)
- NGOs Call on U.S. to Establish International Accountability Mechanism on Sri Lanka at UN Human R... (Category: Breaking News)
- Rajapakse banks on Blake’s diplomatic speak in US war crimes case (Category: Breaking News)
“It is unlikely that in making his overstatement on development that the President was seeking to downplay the achievements of the past by his illustrious predecessors in the governance of the country. In the 1950s there was the Gal Oya development scheme that opened up the vast territories of thick jungle land in the east ...
- US will support resolution on Sri Lanka at HRC sessions in Geneva (Category: Breaking News)
- why is Sri Lanka opposing US-sponsored resolution to implement its own LLRC recommendations? (Category: Breaking News)
- The government, the LLRC and what civil society can do (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka: Government fears strategy of “Regime Change” through external intervention (Category: Breaking News)
WASHINGTON DC: Plaintiffs in the War crimes case against Sri Lanka’s President Rajapakse on Friday (February 3) filed a memorandum of opposition to the suggestion of immunity by the United States of America and requested for oral argument on the matter. The Plaintiffs through their attorney Bruce Fein submitted that the Torture Victims Protection Act is ...
- US grants immunity to President Rajapakse in War Crimes case (Category: Breaking News)
- Judge grants time for Plaintiffs to respond to suggestion of immunity in US war crimes case (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka: US Court of Appeals to hear Rajapakse war-crimes case (Category: Breaking News)
- Rajapaksa has immunity, US informs District Court (Category: Breaking News)
By Victor Ivan This article is meant to analyse the inadequacy of traditional interpretations of the ethnic crisis and point out limitations inherent in them. It is not incorrect to treat this issue as an ethnic crisis. Yet, in my opinion, it is not correct to treat it only as a conflict based on ethnic ...
- How Tamil Leadership Failed Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Deadly Symbols, Vibrant Electoral Politics and War Crimes in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- The Need For An Overall Reorganization In The System Of Governanance (Category: Breaking News)
- Fragile State Policy & The Rise Of Muslim Extremism In Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
Sarath Fonseka was found guilty on the first charge in an indictment filed in the High Court of Colombo, consequent to an article carried in The Sunday Leader on December 13 2009 - front page under the caption “Gota Ordered Them To Be Shot - Gen. Sarath Fonseka.” The case was heard at a Trial-at-Bar before ...
- Jansz did not correct her mistake due to threats - Fonseka (Category: Breaking News)
- Sunday Leader decided to support Fonseka - Witness (Category: Breaking News)
- SF Attends Trial-at-bar (Category: Breaking News)
- Surrendees never ordered to be shot - Maj Gen (Category: Breaking News)
Lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit up once again in our life time, Musings of Edward Grey, British statesmen, looking out of his London Foreign Office window at dusk on the eve of the outbreak of the First World War. The lights have been going out with regularity in Sri Lanka too – ...
- MERVYN SILVA SRI LANKA’S QUINTESSENTIAL COWARD (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘Act to Ruin Economic Freedom’ makes Govt. muddy – UNP (Category: Business)
- ‘One project for one village’ in Hambantota reviewed (Category: Business)
- Mannar: Demonstrate Commitment To Judicial Independence (Category: Breaking News)
“Muammar is leader of the revolution until the end of time…. When they (the protestors) are caught they will beg for mercy, but we will not be merciful.” — Muammar Gaddafi (Address to the Nation – 22.2.2011) January 18, 2011, Parliamentarian Namal Rajapaksa, eldest son of President Rajapaksa (‘The Universally-Renowned Lord of the Three-Sinhala Lands’), met ...
- The Son Also Rises (Category: Breaking News)
- Tyrants and Their Families: Gaddafis and Rajapaksas. (Category: Breaking News)
- Corrupt public expenditure in Sri Lanka: Waste misgovernment and extravagance (Category: Breaking News)
- Namal Rajapaksa takes oaths as a lawyer (Category: Breaking News)
OCTOBER 17, 2011: Status: Not Free Legal Environment: 23 Political Environment: 30 Economic Environment: 18 Total Score: 71 Despite the end of the government’s long-running war with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) rebel group in May 2009, media freedom remained restricted in Sri Lanka, with journalists subject to myriad forms of legal harassment and physical intimidation. Altho...
- Alarming Increase in hostile rhetoric, threats of reprisals against exiled journalists from Sri ... (Category: Breaking News)
- Media Freedom In Sri Lanka; Why Are Journalists’ Murder Investigations Being Avoided? (Category: Breaking News)
- Lankan media gagged says RSF (Category: Breaking News)
- Can Sri Lanka’s government implement the LLRC recommendations? (Category: Breaking News)
By Jamila Najmuddin The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) is hoping to take up the issue of the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) with the UN Human Rights Council, TNA sources said. This is after the Supreme Court last week rejected a fundamental rights petition filed by the TNA against the PTA. Sections of the PTA ...
- EU Shocked By Video (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka Savaged (Category: Breaking News)
- Chronicles Of The Panel Of Experts (Category: Breaking News)
- TNA and talks travails (Category: Business)
Sri Lanka in ancient times exported its elephants, peacocks, gems, spices and even monkeys (!) to the then known world. Old Europe, more precisely the writers of ancient Rome and Greece have made reference to such imports from Taprobane, the name referred to by them to Sri Lanka then. It was not only the Europe ...
- Inflation Targeting Key To Attracting FDI (Category: Breaking News)
- Import Substitution (Category: Breaking News)
- Economist Debunks Mahinda Chinthana (Category: Breaking News)
- Aid, So Near, But Yet So Far (Category: Breaking News)
A true blue SLFPer, Abalang Ruhunuputra, was resting his weary limbs and shredded vocal chords after the exhaustive march from Campbell Place to the Town Hall lawns on Sunday when he received an invigourating shot of adrenaline from the TV screen. Barack Obama himself delivered a personal message: American commandos had raided Osama bin Laden’s ...
- Chronicles Of The Panel Of Experts (Category: Breaking News)
- Ban Ki-moon in Sri Lanka next week as GGGI President (Category: Breaking News)
- With Friends Like This Do We Need…? (Category: Breaking News)
- Former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrives in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
Banks’ Profits Up 111% The banking industry achieved a considerably high level of profits in 2010. Profit after tax amounted to Rs. 57.5 billion last year, a 111% growth in comparison to a Rs. 27.2 billion profit in 2009. The significant growth in profitability was mainly attributed to a higher increase in fee-based income, a ...
- Market Expects Rate Hike (Category: Breaking News)
- Ceylinco Insurance announces 65% dividend (Category: Business)
- Rupee Strengthens, But Illiquid Status Worsens (Category: Breaking News)
- JKH forges with solid growth (Category: Business)
Extracts from report on Sri Lanka by advisory panel appointed by Ban Ki moon 2. Violations in the IDP Camps (a) Arbitrary detention of IDPs in closed camps 154. Civilians emerging from the conflicts zone were initially housed in a...
- Unlawful attacks on civilians and civilian objects in the Wanni during the Govt-LTTE war (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka: Thousands of Tamils still detained, torture alleged (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s infamous Menik farm IDP camp to shut down later this month (Category: Breaking News)
- SRI LANKA: Menik Farm IDP camp to close by 30 September (Category: Breaking News)
Cricket and politics in Sri Lanka By Namini Wijedasa The Sri Lankan team lost the 2011 Cricket World Cup to India but were welcomed home like winners. Was this politics or the true Sri Lankan spirit of embracing losers as...
- Army joins Jaffna cricket fans to greet Sri Lankan team (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka President Congratulates World Cup runners up (Category: Breaking News)
- President instructs cricket officials to select the best Sri Lanka Cricket team for World Cup 2011 (Category: Breaking News)
- Cricket and politics in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
by Tissa Devendra It is with some nervousness that I venture to address today’s audience of experts in foreign affairs and their students as I have absolutely no knowledge of this subject, having spent most of my career as an...
- The Exodus (Category: Breaking News)
- Santa Fe teachers find learning opportunities in Capitol riots (Category: USA, New Mexico)
- Santa Fe teachers find learning opportunities in Capitol riots (Category: USA, New Mexico)
- Santa Fe teachers find learning opportunities in Capitol riots (Category: USA, New Mexico)
Dynasties have to start somewhere. For an aspiring Gandhi in India, or a Bhutto in Pakistan, exploiting the family name to get into politics is relatively simple. Getting a dynasty going in the first place is more testing. Sri Lanka’s President since 2005, Mahinda Rajapaksa, is evidently giving the matter some thought. His government is ...
- Sri Lanka President`s son not to be appointed as a Deputy Minister (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka President's son not to be appointed as a Deputy Minister (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka President's son leads Hambanthota preferential votes (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka President's son launches his election campaign (Category: Breaking News)
DYNASTIES have to start somewhere. For an aspiring Gandhi in India , or a Bhutto in Pakistan , exploiting the family name to get into politics is relatively simple. Getting a dynasty going in the first place is more testing....
- Rajapaksa Co. strong point of the govt (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka President`s son not to be appointed as a Deputy Minister (Category: Breaking News)
- Namal poser remanded (Category: Breaking News)
- Namal Rajapaksa begins his work as lawyer (Category: Breaking News)
by Amal Siriwardena I met Arthur C. Clarke briefly when I was about ten years old. My father, Regi Siriwardena, then features editor of the ‘Daily News’ was interviewing Clarke. We met at Clarke’s residence at Gregory’s Road, where he...
- Strange but true? (Category: Technology)
- Get paid to have your face printed onto a creepy, super realistic mask - CNET (Category: Technology)
- Get paid to have your face printed onto a creepy, super realistic mask - CNET (Category: Technology)
- Get paid to have your face printed onto a creepy, super realistic mask - CNET (Category: Technology)
By Michael Roberts The old Premadasa Stadium was a monstrosity. The new one is far better on the eye though hardly a classic structure. Together with the Mahinda Rajapaksa Stadium at Sooriyawewa it was constructed in time for the staging of the World Cup. In this achievement both stadiums stand out sharply in contrast with ...
- Populist Politics and the Sooriyawewa & Premadasa Stadiums (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka President to open Hambanthota International Cricket Stadium tomorrow (Category: Breaking News)
- Only a clean sweep will suffice for the Lankans (Category: Breaking News)
- President inspects the construction of an international cricket stadium at Sooriyawewa in Southern (Category: Breaking News)
by Prof Michael Roberts The old Premadasa Stadium was a monstrosity. The new one is far better on the eye though hardly a classic structure. Together with the Mahinda Rajapaksa Stadium at Sooriyawewa it was constructed in time for the...
- Populist Politics And The Sooriyawewa And Premadasa Stadiums (Category: Breaking News)
- The son also rises: Namal Rajapaksa, the president’s eldest son is being groomed for high office (Category: Breaking News)
- West Indies matches at SSC (Category: Sports)
- President Rajapaksa offers prayers at Tirumala (Category: Breaking News)
by Tisaranee Gunasekara "When heads of state do not pay attention to the needs of their nation, the people take over”. Turkish Presiden Abdullah Gul (During the February 2011 visit to Iran) “As he launched a series of murderous attacks...
- Tyrants and Their Families: Gaddafis and Rajapaksas (Category: Breaking News)
- Tyrants and Their Families: Gaddafis and Rajapaksas. (Category: Breaking News)
- Parallels between the Gaddafis of Libya and the Rajapaksas of Medamulana (Category: Breaking News)
- Fall of Fonseka indicates that Rajapaksas cannot be beaten at their own game (Category: Breaking News)
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