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(Courtesy www.rediff.com) Mahinda Rajapaksa is a democratically elected leader who received a massive mandate of 71% of votes, and he owes nothing to Delhi or Washington for staging his political comeback, observes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar. Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas..

The Letter sent by TULF to PM Rajiv Gandhi on 28 Oct 1987 provides clue to how 13A evolved. The history of the events should awaken Sri Lanka’s advisors promoting the theory that ‘we cannot anger India’ ‘we have to..

In accordance with the neighbourhood first policy and SAGAR (Security and Growth for All in the Region) doctrine, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said India will give a “special and high priority” to its relationship with Sri Lanka. Modi made the..

How do vote-declining and fast-becoming irrelevant political parties and politicians return to limelight? Simple, they dig out a dead LTTE and create a tamasha and then try to force people to rally around them. So what’s the latest propaganda stunt..

Sri Lanka and many other developing countries see Responsibility to Protect (R2P) as a cloak to hide a bid to re-establish ex-colonial powers’ hegemony Colombo, September 15 (newsin.asia): In his address to the high-level meeting of the UN General Assembly..

The New constitution to be framed should abolish the provincial councils without thinking of holding elections to them, SLPP MP Genvindu Cumaratunga told parliament yesterday. Participating in a debate at the time of adjournment of the House on the Financial..

Yahapalana President Maithripala Sirisena recently contradicted former Defence Secretary Hemasiri Fernando as regards the latter’s statements before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (P CoI) probing 2019 April 21 Easter Sunday attacks. It was, in fact, Sirisena who appointed the P..

Former Member of Parliament M.K.Sivajilingam was arrested by the police in Kopay for organizing an illegal celebration in memory of the late Tiger Terrorist, Rasaiah Pradeepan alias Thileepan who died while on a fast in 1987. This is not the..

Many international rights groups representing the international community have not given up the habit of looking at Sri Lanka with suspicion. The most recent example of this kind is the recent statement made by the High Commissioner of the United..

19A inclusion of Dual Citizenship was specifically targeted at preventing Gotabaya Rajapakse from contesting Presidential Elections and requiring to revoke citizenship which created a thorny situation with US declaring him and Shavendra Silva as war criminals. Geetha Kumarasinghe had to..