There have been repeated attacks on mosques and Muslim owned institutions around the island by extremist groups

As crimes continue with impunity, attacks against mosques around the country have become more obscene and portentously fatal. The latest attack occurred in Mahiyangana on 18 July, when a mob of masked individuals attacked the Mahiyangana Masjidul Araba mosque while a group of Muslims prayed in the house of worship.

The incident took place at 11.30 p.m. as the Muslims of Mahiyangana offered special Ramadan

Sri Lanka's main opposition United National Party (UNP) alleges that the government is losing millions in revenues due to corruption in the Telecommunications authority.

UNP parliamentarian Ravi Karunanayaka had alleged in Parliament last week that the country had been deprived of the opportunity of earning revenue amounting to millions due to irregular practices in the reservation of frequencies by radio and television broadcasters through the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (TRC).

During question time

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had assured Tamil Nadu government that there was no change in the stand of the Centre on reconciliation and devolution of political powers to ethnic Tamils in Sri Lanka, Union Minister of State in PMO V Narayanasamy said on Sunday.

Talking to reporters in Puducherry, Narayanasamy said the UPA government was firm that there should be no dilution of the 13th Amendment to the Sri Lankan Constitution.

The poverty-stricken people of the North and East are to receive allowances under the Samurdhi Poverty Alleviation Programme.It is learnt that over 300, registered themselves with the Samurdhi Authority to receive assistance to supplement their monthly income.Ven. Maduluwawe Sobhitha Thera, Chief Incumbent of the Naga Vihara, Kotte and President of the National Movement for Social Justice has turned down an invitation by the UNP of that he had no intention of being associated with UNP’s politi

Amidst the brutal slaying of senior planter Nihal Perera, Superintendent of Noorie Estate, Deraniyagala, the Ceylon Planters’ Society (CPS) met with IGP N. K. Illangakoon and five senior DIGs last week to discuss security-related issues in the country’s estates.

The CPS was represented by its president, Nisala Jayawardena and secretary general, Lt. Col. (Retd) Leslie Marshal.

Plantation Industries Minister, Mahinda Samarasinghe, whose intervention was described by the CPS as "timely and opportune"

“Shops, Banks, Offices and Restaurants in the Capital’s crowded City Centre and Main Streets being burnt while the Police look on. Thousands of houses ransacked and burnt, sometimes with women and children inside. Goon squads battering passengers to death in trains and on station platforms and, without hindrance, publicly burning men and women to death on the streets! Remand prisoners and political detainees in the country’s top prison being massacred.The armed forces joining in and sometimes organizing this pogrom agai

Are there good Buddhist monks and bad ones? A learned monk replied “Yes, of course.” As a measure to protect Buddhism and its values, Thailand had warned or sacked monks from clergy-hood in 2012. Thailand has some 61, monks.

Values play a big role in anybody’s life. Values lead to somebody’s actions and behavior. Put it in a Buddhist perspective of “cause and effect.” If somebody’s actions and behaviors are the resultant effect then his perception of valu

“Headlines in the NEW YORK TIMES in July 1962 captured the national sentiments…. silent spring is now noisy summer… In the few months between the New Yorkers serialization of “silent spring” in June and its publication in book form that September Rachel Carson’s alarm touched off a national debate on the use of chemical pesticides, the responsibility of science and limits of technological progress…” – Linda Lear- introduction to Silent Spring.

“These chemicals are n

ROW Simon Danczuk MP has angered the Sri Lankan government by revealing he planned to tackle the president on the stalled case of Khuram Shaikh, the Milnrow man killed while on holiday 18 months ago ROW Simon Danczuk MP has angered the Sri Lankan government by revealing he planned to tackle the president on the stalled case of Khuram Shaikh, the Milnrow man killed while on holiday 18 months ago

Senior members of the Sri Lankan government have apologised for the death of a Rochdale man in the country in 2011, the town's MP has said.

Khuram Shaikh, 32, from Milnrow was shot and stabbed on Christmas Day 2011.

Eight people, including a Sri Lankan politician, were arrested and bailed in November. They all denied the charges.

Simon Danczuk, who has been visiting the country said he had meetings with a "number of senior ministers, who said sorry for what happened to Khuram".