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In what Sri Lanka can recall as examples taken from President Ranasinghe Premadasa, Indian Prime Minister has rattled India’s 3million bureaucracy with edicts that they cannot ignore. Indian bureaucrats are often referred to as babus in India have been in..

By Mahir Ali (Courtesy of Khaleej Times) ON Monday, the High Court of Australia granted a temporary injunction against the transfer of 153 Sri Lankan asylum-seekers to that country’s authorities after a boat conveying them from India was intercepted by..

By Nalin de Silva Courtesy Island A delegation led by South African Deputy President Cyril Ramaposa arrived here yesterday. The visitors were warmly welcomed by Leader of the House and Irrigation and Water Resources Management Minister Nimal Siripala De Silva, and..

I COULDN’T help reading over and over The Australian’s editorial of July 7 that said: “Former prime minister Malcolm Fraser doesn’t help his standing by likening the return of Tamils to Sri Lanka to handing over Jewish refugees to Nazi Germany…

It would be interesting to see what Deputy President of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa who arrived in Sri Lanka has to say about the outcome of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission established in 1996. Indigenous Black South Africans suffered..

A new Pew Research Center poll shows that the number of Americans who think the United States “stands above all other countries” has declined from 38 percent three years ago to 28 percent today. A strong majority of Americans (58 percent)..

Statement from the Asian Human Rights Commission Palestinian women now targeted in Israel’s mass-arrest campaign, warns UFree Network and Yousef Al-Sedeeq Institute: A 20-year-old Palestinian woman, Bushra Al-Tawil, was abducted in the middle of the night on 1st of July..

By Nalin de Silva (Courtesy for Daily News) The West consists of the most vindictive of the states that have ruled the earth over several millennia. There are some educated, meaning of course Western educated who cannot get out of..

S. Akurugoda According to a shocking news item appeared in the front page of The Island dated 27th June 2014, under the heading ‘Ahead of Presidential polls: Government troubled by US-funded project’, US was planning to fund those who have been opposed to..

In what is clearly double speak and hypocrisy the US asks Sri Lanka to protect the minorities while in the US hate crimes has jumped to over 50%. The statistics itself are appalling. The term Islamophobia itself was coined probably..