Tamil Nadu Governor K. Rosaiah Friday urged the Indian government to impose economic sanctions on Sri Lanka and take steps to ensure that those displayed by the ethnic conflict there returned to their original homes.

Delivering his address on the first day of the first assembly session of 2013, Rosaiah said: "I reiterate the resolve expressed by the Tamil Nadu assembly June 8, 2011 to urge the Indian government to initiate action by working with other nations for imposition of an economic embargo on the Sri Lankan Governm

The Supreme Court yesterday fixed August 5, 6 and 8, 2013 for hearing the appeal filed by the four police officers who were convicted of the abduction and the subsequent murder of two youth at Angulana in August 2009.

The police officer were convicted and sentenced to death by the High Court Trial-at-Bar.

Yesterday, when the appeal was called before the Supreme Court, the Counsel for the appellants was granted six weeks to file written submissions. The respondent, Attorney General, was allowed six weeks thereafter to

We pleaded the forces not to break our homes but they demolished out houses, stating orders from hierarchies was the complaint made by the Waligamam north people to Tamil National Alliance parliament member E.Saravanabawan
 
From Thondamanaru to Kankesanthurai, the abodes which were inside the permanent security fence were demolished was the complaints made to parliament member and Waligamam north divisional council Chairman S.Sugirthan.
 
25 thousand and 328 persons from 7 thousand and 60 families are still

The Sri Lanka Law College has reduced the cut off mark of the law entrance examination thereby increasing the law college intake from 309 to 551, official sources said.

The Incorporated Council of Legal Education of the Sri Lanka Law College met yesterday and a unanimous decision was taken to reduce the cut off mark in order to increase the intake of students.

Several students who sat for the law entrance examination protested when the results were released last month saying that the results were ethnically biased a

As February dawns, the focus is on the 65th Independence Day which will be celebrated with the usual pomp and pageantry on February 4 in the strategic Eastern Port City of Trincomalee. However the Anglican Church has called on its members to commemorate February 4 as a day of lamentation for the breakdown of the rule of law and the end of constitutional democracy in the aftermath of the illegal and unconstitutional impeachment of Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake. Colombo’s Anglican Bishop, the Rt. Rev. Dhiloraj Canagasabey, in a

If anyone asked Kumbhakarna to name one contemporary Sri Lankan woman who qualifies to be called ‘great,’ he would unhesitatingly name the mother of Rizana Nafeek who was recently executed in Saudi Arabia for a crime she did not commit.


Why does this destitute, problem-ridden, utterly undistinguished woman from a very remote, backward part of the country deserve to be called that? Well, she had the incredible moral courage to turn down the compensation money of one million of rupees from a member of the Saudi

Sri Lanka expressed outrage at the tragic death of young Rizana Nafeek. Her story was highlighted as if it were uniquely unjust.
Yet the truth is that there are many Rizana Nafeeks out there – young men and women who go overseas in the hope of a better future, only to find themselves trapped in a nightmare and unable to return. These people get little publicity, but they languish in prisons and embassies, longing to return home.
An earlier article by The Sunday Leader found that young girls who were looking to go overseas

Human rights violations have been part of this country’s history particularly in recent times, says Minister of National Languages, Ethnic Affairs and Social Integration Vasudeva Nanayakkara.
The Minister pointed out that the West targets countries like ours citing concern about human rights violations while turning a blind eye to what is going in Saudi Arabia and any other countries they consider as friends. He pointed out that Western countries are looking towards a change of regime and therefore continue to pressure Sri Lan

The Sri Lankan government continued its assault on civil society and failed to take meaningful steps towards accountability for war crimes during the country's armed conflict that ended in 2009, Human Rights Watch said in its World Report 2013 released today.
In its 665-page report, Human Rights Watch assessed progress on human rights during the past year in more than 90 countries, including an analysis of the aftermath of the Arab Spring.

There was no fundamental progress on key human rights issues in Sri Lanka over

The Gillard government has flatly denied a news report that a senior Sri Lankan government official was suspected by Australian authorities to have been complicit in the people-smuggling trade.

The Australian reported Friday that intelligence agencies had identified a high-profile Sri Lankan official close to President Mahinda Rajapaksa who had authorised asylum-seeker boats leaving Sri Lanka bound for Australia.

But a spokesman for Foreign Minister Bob Carr said the claims were untrue.