A controversial Buddhist organization in Sri Lanka, the Bodu Bala Sena (BBS), says that the government had not made sufficient effort to reconnect with the Tamil people following the end of the war.

BBS General Secretary Ven. Galagodaaththe Gnanasara Thero said although the government built roads and developed the infrastructure in the North, it would not win the hearts of the people.

Explaining that the war had prevented the Sinhala people from connecting with the Tamil people, the Thero said the BBS wants to build

Two students from a school in the Peradenya area had come to meet the President without informing their parents had been arrested by the Kurunegala Police.

The  three students are from the Peradeniya Gannoruwa area had been grade 10 students had left for Colombo after school hours while clad in the school uniform

Indian media reported that Jayalalitha Jayaram, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu has sent a letter to the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to take  over  Kachchchteevu  Island to India.

PTI service reported that Jayalalitha has informed by her letter to the Prime Minister that although the Kachchacteevu island belongs to Sri Lanka according to agreement signed between India and Sri Lanka in 1974, it has happened without an approval of the Parliament and without amendment to the constitution.

The Sri Lanka army has said that it would reduce the number of military camps in the former rebel stronghold of northern Jaffna and hand over lands back to their original owners.

“We will reduce the existing three,” Army chief Lt Gen Jagath Jayasuriya said.

The fourteen camps pulled out from different parts of Jaffna would be relocated in the main Palaly cantonment, he said on Tuesday.

Prof G.H. Peiris in his latest response (‘The Case against the Thirteenth Amendment’, The Island Midweek Review, May 22-23, 2013) to my article in The Island of 15th May 2013, argues that the distribution of ethnicity renders the district rather than the province the more suitable unit of devolution if empowering the minorities is the name of the game. My counterarguments are threefold: domestic geopolitics, politics, and regional geopolitics. Or, to reduce it a single factor, the realities of the balance of power and the isl

Eighteen people have been arrested on suspicion of helping to smuggle Sri Lankan illegal immigrants into Britain in a series of dawn raids across Europe, including in London, Luton and Essex.

Around 120 immigration and police officers from Home Office Immigration Enforcement and Kent Police searched addresses in London, Luton and Essex on Wednesday morning, while properties in France and Germany were also raided.

The government seems to be heading for a yet another confrontation with university academics, this time over the highly controversial appointment of the Vice Chancellor (VC)  of University of Colombo.  It is reported that the President Mahinda Rajapaksa, under pressure within the family,  is yet again considering appointing Dr. Kumara Hirimburegama, as the VC. According to the sources from the pro government SLFP university teachers’ union, academics of all the faculties of Colombo University will join in trade union

A Sri Lankan asylum seeker, previously deemed a security risk, will be released from Villawood Detention Centre in Sydney after her adverse security assessment was overturned by spy agency Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) .

Manokala Jenaddarsan, 41, fled war-torn Sri Lanka in 2009 with her now six-year-old son Ragavan after her husband was killed in a bomb blast.

Manokala was found to be eligible for a protection visa but was moved into detention housing at Villawood after ASIO deemed her a poten

The Mahasangha should be more concerned and well-informed about a situation being plotted to rouse communal tensions and create a crisis situation among religions and sects of the same religion to breach the religious harmony in the country. It is evident that certain NGOs are drafting agendas to dislodge the place given to Buddhism in the constitution. But the government will never allow these forces to achieve their sinister targets, President Mahinda Rajapaksa said.

President Rajapaksa was addressing the state festival to m

The issue of enforcing unity among the people in Sri Lanka has become a controversial debate on account of the birth of divisive force of religions. Ancient history of Sri Lanka establishes that there were two nations and two religions, viz, Buddhism and Hinduism. With the passage of time Muslims came as traders and introduced Islam. Later they were followed by the Westerners who introduced Catholicism and Christianity. Though there were some incidents of conversion with compulsion, subsequently people belonging to the five religions liv