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The Gay Movement In Sri Lanka By Sherman Anthony De Rose I am from a family of seven from the countryside of Kotahena. When I was young, it was a very crowded area where low class people, who earned only for their daily needs, lived. The area had very strong Catholic families, Colombo Chetties and ...
- Press Conference by Under Secretary Maria Otero and Assistant Secretary Robert O. Blake, Jr. in ... (Category: Breaking News)
- Tactful Diplomacy Will Bring Durable Solution (Category: Breaking News)
- Building the ‘Harpo’ empire (Category: Business)
- Danushka’s Sex Scandal: Time For “Me Too Aragalaya” In Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
The Indian government which wanted to "see the Tamil Tigers destroyed" was "fully aware" of the real situation in the battle zone, including the civilian casualties, said, Mr. Gorden Weiss speaking to BBC Sinhala Service Sunday. "I believe that Indians were aware of the civilian casualties
By Tisaranee Gunasekara “The illusion of destiny extracts a remarkably heavy price”. — Amartya Sen (Identity and Violence) The mysterious leaking in Colombo of the Darusman (UN) Report was accompanied by a carefully choreographed outbreak of patriotic-hysteria. The President, in...
- Why did the the Rajapaksas lie to the people of Sri Lanka? (Category: Breaking News)
- Darusman panel report criticizes Sri Lankan administration for the way in which the war against ... (Category: Breaking News)
- Warm welcome for war crimes agenda architect (Category: Breaking News)
- World amazed over Darusman’s Most Disciplined Certificate handed in to the LTTE (Category: Breaking News)
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)
The UK vs. Wijesinha By Vimukthi Yapa The British High Commission in Colombo last week told The Sunday Leader they had no idea what ‘note’ UPFA MP Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha was talking about when he told the BBC Sinhala Sandeshaya Service that the former defence attaché at the BHC had handed
- Army Slams Fonseka (Category: Breaking News)
- 'Fonseka blamed Gotabhaya for killings' - Editor (Category: Breaking News)
- Court orders editor to submit notebook with Fonsekas interview (Category: Breaking News)
- No evidence to support the White Flag claims (Category: Breaking News)
The BBC Sinhala Service, in asking for comments on the 2010 US Report on Human Rights in Sri Lanka, gave me little notice, and suggested I could just glance through the synopsis with which the report began. As it happened, I was able to look through some of the rest, which was good, because I ...
- Make preparations count (Category: Business)
- Wanting in credibility (Category: Breaking News)
- Improprieties in the Sri Lanka section of US State Dept report (Category: Breaking News)
- Govt. readies for next UN session with national plan for human rights (Category: Business)
BBC News A court in Sri Lanka in Sri Lanka has granted bail to the editor of a news website critical of the government who was arrested last month. Police said that Bennett Rupasinghe, editor of LankaeNews.com, was arrested for...
- e-News Editor arrested (Category: Breaking News)
- Lanka e-news editor released (Category: Breaking News)
- News Editor of Lanka e News arrested (Category: Breaking News)
- SRI LANKA: Stop the persecution of Lanka-E-news (Category: Breaking News)
BBC Sandeshaya Police in Sri Lanka say that they have arrested four people suspected on an attack following a the protest threat by a cabinet minister. Superintendent of Police Prishantha Jayakody told BBC Sandeshaya that the suspects were remanded until...
Cricket may be, as the sociologist Ashis Nandy wrote in 1983, “an Indian game accidentally discovered by the English,” but India took a long time to take control of it. by Huw Richards For Sachin Tendulkar, it was “the proudest...
- West Indies Confident Of Springing A Surprise Or Two (Category: Breaking News)
- Curtain raiser today between defending champs England and New Zealand (Category: Sports)
- DREAM SHATTERED! (Category: Breaking News)
- Lanka star in ICCs team of World Cup, Sanga to lead (Category: Breaking News)
BBC correspondents in India and Sri Lanka describe scenes of rejoicing and dejection after India beat Sri Lanka in the cricket World Cup.
April 2, 2011 The mounting pressure begins to affect Sangakkara, whose second-string bowlers cannot provide adequate support for Lasith Malinga and Muttiah Muralitharan against the fourth-wicket duo...
- Dutch To Rebuild Jaffna Fort (Photos) (Category: Breaking News)
- Kirulapone Perahera Procession (Category: Breaking News)
- Nails Removed From Tortured Housemaid (Photos) (Category: Breaking News)
- Keerimalai~A Land of Sacred Springs & Spirituality (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka's Ministry of Defense has refused permission to BBC Colombo correspondant Charles Haviland from attending cultural festival in Jaffna, sources in Colombo said. The "Jaffna Music Festival organized to celebrate the diverse traditional folk arts for three days from 25th 27th March 2011
By BBC News Hundreds of people have protested against Western-led air strikes in Libya outside the United Nations headquarters in Sri Lanka. Protesters chanted slogans against the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon - pic DailyMirror.lk...
- Libyan Fallout (Category: Business)
- One Voice (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka's ties with Libya (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lankan nationalists protests against Libya attack (Category: Breaking News)
by Prof.Michael Roberts Sri Lanka’s comprehensive victory over New Zealand in the last match for Group A at Mumbai was marred by a controversial third umpire decision that reprieved Mahela Jayawardene when he was in his twenties. This verdict certainly...
- New Zealand beats Sri Lanka by 2 wickets (Category: Breaking News)
- New Zealand beats Sri Lanka by 2 wickets (Category: Breaking News)
- New Zealand beats Sri Lanka by 2 wickets (Category: Breaking News)
- New Zealand beats Sri Lanka by 2 wickets (Category: Breaking News)
By Izeth Hussain After quite some time allegations have once again surfaced that some Muslims have supported the Pakistan side against all others, including the Sri Lankan one at the recent World Cup match. I have been sent newspaper material...
- Victory on our minds in Sri Lanka: Pak coach Whatmore (Category: Breaking News)
- Team Spirit (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka Cricket mulls touring Pakistan two years after attack on the team (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka could host Pakistan vs. England (Category: Breaking News)
Human Rights Watch (HRW), a New York-based rights organization, called on countries worldwide to boycott a conference to be held in Colombo between 31 May to 02 June labelled "Defeating Terrorism Sri Lankan Experience aimed at sharing Sri Lanka's war experience, BBC reported. What we are telling
US state department spokesman PJ Crowley has resigned after calling the treatment of the man accused of leaking secret cables to Wikileaks "stupid," BBC reported. "It is with regret that I have accepted the resignation of Philip J. Crowley as Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs. PJ
A new military headquarters in northern Sri Lanka has been built on the site of a Tamil Tiger graveyard earlier flattened by the army, it has emerged.
by By Charles Haviland BBC News, Colombo A new military headquarters in northern Sri Lanka has been built on the site of a Tamil Tiger graveyard earlier flattened by the army, it has emerged. The construction has come in for...
- Sri Lanka army HQ on Tiger graves (Category: Breaking News)
- Camp on LTTE cemetery-BBC (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka mulls aviation complex in former Tiger jungle airstrip (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka`s defeated terrorist group still a threat- India (Category: Breaking News)
Kenneth Roth, Executive Director, Human Rights Watch, NY has remarked via twitter on reports of Libya's Gaddafi calling President Mahinda Rajapaksa as follows: Kenneth Roth [on twitter.com/KenRoth] "Bad news: BBC reports Libya's Gaddafi called SriLanka Pres Mahinda, known for indiscriminate...
- Gaddafi rule ends : people scream gleefully we are now free (Category: Breaking News)
- 36 Sri Lankans working in Libya sent by vessel to Greece. (Category: Breaking News)
- The facts media hides about Libya (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘Gaddafi had own way of building Libya’ (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)
A state-run television station has made an unconditional apology to national cricket team, says the chairman of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC), BBC reports. .
Vice captain of the Sri Lankan cricket team Mahela Jayawardene is considering legal action against state owned Independent Television Network (ITN) in response to commentary which implied he was guilty of match-fixing, the BBC has reported today. The report states that a state television broadcast
- Live Score: Sri Lanka chase on track (Category: Breaking News)
- Big Scores (Category: Business)
- Direct Action (Category: Business)
- Test Case (Category: Business)
Sri Lanka vice captain Mahela Jayawardene is considering legal action in response to commentary which implied he was guilty of match-fixing. A state television broadcast suggested Jayawardene deliberately played badly for financial gain in Saturdays cricket World Cup defeat by Pakistan, BBC
BBC News Sri Lankan police have arrested 24 Indian fishermen, adding to the 112 already in custody for allegedly straying into Sri Lankan waters. The Indians were seized by a group of local fishermen and handed over to police....
By Tisaranee Gunasekara “But these were monstrous times. So, naturally Jennie turned monstrous”. Klaus Mann (The Turning Point) Neither President Mahinda Rajapaksa nor his administration can be faulted for the calamitous weather conditions afflicting Sri Lanka. Global warming is a global phenomenon, an environmental malaise to which the entire world (and each one of its people) has cont...
- Prince of Wales sends message (Category: Breaking News)
- Fall of Fonseka indicates that Rajapaksas cannot be beaten at their own game (Category: Breaking News)
- On A Material And Moral Slippery-Slope (Category: Breaking News)
- President calls an emergency disaster relief meeting (Category: Breaking News)
The Galle Literary festival is a haven of civilised values in a country that is no stranger to strife by Robert McCrum Associate editor, The Observer, UK [Click for more pictures] Ever since the Hay festival set up shop overseas...
- Literary Fest (Category: Business)
- Regional Debate (Category: Business)
- Festive Track (Category: Business)
- Final Stretch (Category: Business)
Hundreds of millions paid to British PR Firm for 2018 Commonwealth Games bid The Indian government spent $ 8.5 billion to host the Commonwealth Games, which turned out to be a national disaster By Frederica Jansz The Sri Lankan government is reportedly paying a top British PR firm about 3 million sterling pounds (Rs. 545,880,000) ...
- The Biggest Fraud In Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Govt. paid US$2.4mln for PR (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s Multi-Million Rupee Bid Fails (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka 'pays top PR firm £3m' (Category: Breaking News)
In an interview with the BBC Tamil service, Dr Kasippillai Manoharan, father of Ragihar, one of the five students extra-judicially executed by Sri Lanka's military at the Trincomalee beach on January 2nd, 2006, said that Sri Lanka's judicial system is not capable and unwilling to provide justice
By Dr. S. Narapalasingam PART I The baffling moves and actions on the political front of the potent government led by President Mahinda Rajapaksa, since the war ended conclusively mid May 2009 have been considered discretely by many analysts, ignoring...
- Political will to settle national issue still not forthcoming despite awareness for permanent se... (Category: Breaking News)
- Bipartisan consensus for national reconciliation is urgent, necessary and possible (Category: Breaking News)
- Confusion over national reconciliation, unity and lasting peace in post-war Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Devolution will strengthen and uphold democracy and national unity (Category: Breaking News)
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