Sarath Fonseka, the war-winning former Army Chief and the defeated presidential candidate has a proclivity to shoot from the hip. That has been self injurious to him, most times. Once, it landed him in the jail, though we have grave reservations over the delivery of justice on that particular case, and later it cost him the erstwhile members in his political coalition.


On Sunday, he went on Sirasa TV accusing the newspapers in this country of kowtowing to the government. Only exceptions, he said, being a newspaper

Students who had received letters asking them to register with universities and those scheduled to participate in the fourth batch of the leadership training programme, on the same day, would have to complete the leadership training first, Secretary to the Higher Education Ministry Dr. Sunil Jayantha Navaratne said.

Students selected for universities, based on GCE (Advanced Level) 2011 results, received letters asking them to be registered on March 04. However, a section of students were also instructed to participate in

Books on Tamil Eelam penned by a journalist were released here on Sunday. The event witnessed the speeches of politicians such as Pazha Nedumaran, R Nallakannu and C Mahendran, poet Kasi Anandhan and film director Pugazhendhi Thangaraj.

A K Joseph Kennedy, a journalist, penned four books titled Enjiyulla Neruppu Thundugal, Padai Thalaivan Varuvan, Aindhamkatta Viduthalai Por and Arasa Bayangaravadhamum Makkal Porattamum, of which the first two are poetry collections and the rest essay collections. Kennedy had written these boo

President Mahinda Rajapaksa has backed Sri Lanka’s Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva, Ravinatha Aryasinha, and dismissed allegations raised against him.

A statement by the President’s office said that the Presidential Secretariat is greatly disturbed by attempts to sully the reputation and cast aspersions on the professional conduct of Aryasinha who is taking part in the UN Human Rights Council session in Geneva.

Trade unions attached to political parties and professionals plan to launch a common trade union alliance as individual agitations have failed over the past few years.

Trade union sources said that leading TUs had already held a discussion on the matter.

President of the National Trade Union Centre K. D. Lalkantha, President of the Inter Company Employees’ Union Wasantha Samarasinghe, General Secretary of the Ceylon Teachers’ Service Union Mahinda Jayasinghe, Representative of the Jathika Sevaka Sangamaya

The Attorney General’s Department will brief anyone interested in knowing about the progress on investigations into the 2006 killing of five students in Trincomalee and 17 aid workers in Mutur.

This will be done during United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) sessions in Geneva.

Sri Lanka had assured the UNHRC last year that investigations into these two incidents would be resumed. 

Religious intolerance is raising its ugly head again, and movements in this direction are gathering momentum. If this is not immediately and effectively stopped, it will spell disaster to the nation recovering from a protracted racially motivated .

The Leader of the House and Minister Nimal Siripala De Silva recently announced certain measures, including the setting up of committees in different parts of the country, with a view to jointly celebrating all ethno-religious events in the calendar. This, being a mo

A new Education Act will be introduced this year with international schools islandwide, coming under the Education Ministry, in order to maintain proper teaching standards, Education Minister Bandula Gunawardena said.�Minister Gunawardena told the Sunday Times that this decision was confirmed by President Rajapaksa at the Ministry of Education this week.

Students at an international school in Colombo. Pic by Indika Handuwala

“While reviewing the progress, the President also emphasised the need to bring

Many non-Thamil speaking readers would like to know how some writers in the North and elsewhere writing in Thamil have fictionalised some real experiences they have had in the now ceased bitter war that continued for more than three decades in our country.

Gnanam, a monthly literary magazine published in Colombo, has published a big volume of such stories in its 150th issue running to 600 pages. The special issue is Eelaththup Pore Ilakkiyach Chirapithal meaning “Special issue of Lankan War Literature”.

A young man who had a one sided love affair with a 17-year-old schoolgirl, brutally stabbed her to death last Saturday morning inside her house when she resisted his advances.

She was the youngest of a family of three and a student of Kimbulapitiya Maha Vidyalaya.

Dinushika Madurika, was stabbed to death on Saturday morning at her home in Aswedduma, Kimbulapitiya while her father and mother were away at work. The suspect (22), a resident of Kaltota, Balangoda, had worked for a fireworks manufacturer in Dagonna,