CR (Bulla) De Silva, former Royal rugby captain, attorney general and loyal friend of President Rajapakse, must indeed be a puzzled man, even as a whole host of senior officials from the Attorney General’s department, which he headed in the not too distant past, take wing to Geneva, to play defense, where the US is sponsoring a resolution in the UNHRC, regarding Sri Lanka and its post war reconciliation track record.

CR De Silva, chaired and together mostly with other distinguished former Sri Lankan State officials, were

J K Rowling of Harry Potter fame produced last year a novel entitled ‘The Casual Vacancy’ that is advertised as a novel for adults. Perhaps it is for adults, since it tells, with her usual skill, a very depressing tale, or rather several depressing tales. But to my mind it is very much about children, children presented as the victims of adults with a range of problems, who take them out, deliberately or otherwise, on their offspring.

“It is not only inhumane to be expected to live under such terrible conditions, but these conditions are also a breeding ground for mosquitoes and the spread of other communicable diseases. If the water is not pumped out manually, it will be at least April by the time all the water left over by the floods evaporate,” said a distraught Muslim IDP from Uppukulam, Mannar, whilst pointing to a stagnant pool of water left by December’s flood (2012), in his backyard. He, together with his wife and widowed daughter live in a o

More than 98, returned to former war zones in northern Sri Lanka will be helped though a 4 million US dollar program funded by Japan.The Japanese embassy in Colombo said the project implemented through the UN Human Settlements Program (UN-Habitat) will benefit 98,120 villagers in Mullaitivu and Kilonochchi districts in the north.

The exchange of notes took place on March 06 at the ambassador's residence in the presence of Janaka Sugathadasa, Secretary, Ministry of Resettlement and S B Divaratne, Se

India has once again denied reports of leaks having developed in critical equipment of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant which could result in radiation leaks posing a threat to Sri Lanka.

The Indian High Commission in Colombo said that that these reports are totally baseless and that there has been no radiation leak at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant.

The High Commission said that the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (Unit-1) is currently in an advanced stage of commissioning.

Irked by DMK's charges on the Sri Lankan Tamils issue, Congress today told the key UPA constituent not to exploit the international issue "too much politically".

"It is not a fair statement... A mature view (should be taken) and we should leave it at that... It is an international issue. We should not exploit it too much politically," party spokesman Sandeep Dikshit told reporters.

Rejecting as "mischievous" criticism that he did not take effective steps to save Sri Lankan Tamils at the time of war in 2009, DMK chief M Karunanidhi today said he had "sacrificed" his government twice and had resigned as MLA for the cause of Lankan Tamils.

"Some people are talking that we have not shown that much eagerness on the Tamils cause when the war was going in 2009 ....Whether somebody believes it or not, I have acted as per my conscience on the Sri Lankan Tamils issue," he said.
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The 1,450 Muslim families, who claim that they are direct descendents of around 500 Muslim IDP families, who were forcibly evicted from the Mullaitivu district by the LTTE in 1990, were appealing for half an acre of land for each family so that they could settle down in the native areas of their forefathers, government sources said yesterday.

Government Agent for the Mullaitivu district Nagalingam Vethanayagam said that preparations were underway to clear the necessary land in the Mulliyawalai West area of the Mullaithivu dist

Sri Lanka fishers say they are losing as much as a fifth of potential income due to illegal poaching by Indian trawlers. Credit: Amantha Perera/IPS.

Sri Lanka fishers say they are losing as much as a fifth of potential income due to illegal poaching by Indian trawlers. Credit: Amantha Perera/IPS.

JAFFNA, Sri Lanka, Mar 6 2013 (IPS) - The sea is all that 40-year-old Arul Das has mastered. From looking at the clouds or from the direction of the wind, this fisher from northern Jaffna can predict the condition of the se

Amid concerns in Rajya Sabha over arrest of Indian fishermen by Sri Lankan naval forces, the government today said it is aware of the situation and will take up the matter with the island nation to protect the interest of Tamil fishermen.

"Our government is fully aware of the situation...Whenever this kind of incident has occurred, our government has taken up the matter with the Government of Sri Lanka to protect the interest of Tamil Nadu fishermen. In this case also we will try to find a solution to protect the interest