The Maldives is against changing the venue of the Commonwealth Summit from Colombo and totally opposes bringing any punitive actions against Sri Lanka, Maldives Foreign Minister Dr. Abdul Samad Abdullah has said.

The Maldivian Foreign Minister who was in Sri Lanka on a brief visit told Sunday Times that Maldives was against any move to change the venue of the next Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) scheduled to be held in Sri Lanka from 15-17 November.

‘The media are the eyes and the ears of the people’

When was the last time you read a piece in your favourite newspaper informing you of what’s going in Kashmir? Or about the nasty nature of Zionism which is the ideology of the Israeli occupiers of Palestine?

Never mind. We’ll come back to that in a while.

UNP MP Sajith Premadasa says instead of acquiring a brand new fleet of super luxury vehicles for the use of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM 2013), the government should obtain them from those who owned such vehicles for the duration of the summit.

Hambantota District MP Premadasa said that the government shouldn’t be embarrassed to take every possible measure to limit summit expenditure scheduled to be held from Nov. 15 to 17.

The former UNP Deputy Leader said that a government strugg

The dusty army checkpoint along the infamous A9 highway was the first sign I’d entered the “other” Sri Lanka -- the one that required an additional copy of my passport, my purpose and an inspection of my things. The next clue was the colossal yellow water tower lying horizontal on the roadside at Kilinochchi. Its gaping interior could easily house the entire population of this former capital of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, or LTTE, an oft-misunderstood separatist group that the FBI once described as “amon

Sandya Ekneligoda, wife of missing journalist Prageeth Ekneligoda, center,  speaks to reporters during a protest rally out side the parliament in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013. Relatives, colleagues and opposition activists staged a protest rally Thursday demanding that the Sri Lanka government hold proper investigation to find out what happened to Ekneligoda who went missing in January 2010.

The Tamil National Alliance(TNA)regarded as the premier political formation of the Tamils of Sri Lanka has been very much in the news lately due to what could be termed as an internal crisis.

The TNA that has in recent times been contesting elections under the house symbol of the Ilankai Thamil Arasu Katchi (ITAK)is afflicted by internal dissension among its constituent members.

Of the five organizations in the political configuration known as the TNA , four have been at loggerheads with one party over what is proje

The fourth ‘Victory’ celebration event today

The fourth Victory celebration of the Vanni battle was celebrated this morning in a glittering ceremony headed by the President including VIP’s and members of the forces at the Galle face

Altogether a total of 11,000 forces personnel forces participated .During the period of the war the number who sacrificed their lives were approximately 6261.To remember them lamps would be lighted in the parliamentary complex premises near the ‘ranaviru ‘ m

The Privileged People who enjoy the best of free meals near the Diyavanna Oya are due to discuss an interesting new law very soon.

After a careful study of courtroom procedures in recent years and months, this new law is expected to remove a major shortcoming in the procedure in committing persons to judicial custody - what is usually called remand.

The Federation of University Teachers Associations (FUTA) has criticized the termination of the services of Anuruddha Pradeep, Probationary Lecturer from the Department of Political Science at the Sri Jayawardenapura University.

FUTA says politicization, loss of academic freedom and autonomy are grave threats faced by the university community currently and the latest victim of this malaise is Anuruddha Pradeep.

According to FUTA, Anuruddha Pradeep has been an outspoken critique of current government policy on educat

A pro-Tamil Eelam public meeting, which was to be held in Cuddalore in Tamil Nadu today and participated by JKLF leader Yasin Malik among others, was banned by police after the organisers put up banners carrying pictures of slain LTTE chief V Prabhakaran, the Press Trust of India reported.

Police withdrew the permission granted to Naam Tamizhar Katchi headed by film director Seeman to hold the meeting in support of separate Tamil Eelam as the organisers violated certain conditions, DSP Radhika told reporters.