by Shamindra Ferdinando

Courtesy of The Island

Outgoing 72-year-old United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will fly to Palaly air base in the Jaffna peninsula on Friday (Sept. 2, 2016).

The former South Korean foreign minister’s visit to Jaffna takes …

Twenty (20) strong Buddhist Organizations in Sri Lanka under the common banner of Joint Committee of Buddhist Organizations has strongly condemned the most controversial Parliament Bill; Office of Missing Person passed in the history of Sri Lanka. The OMP Bill …

(Courtesy of The Islands)

Even anyone familiar with parliamentary process in this land of lotus eaters would wonder how and why this government bungles when it comes to passing new laws.  We are said to have a unity or national …

The Yahapalana Government has further decided to grant bank loans at concessionary rates to ex-LTTE Tamil terrorists for self-employment purposes.

The parliamentary oversight committee of the Rehabilitation and Resettlement Ministry, led by another hardline Tamil Minister has proposed and discussed …

Over a clashes between a group of undergraduates in University of Peradeniya the University administration has suspended for two weeks 10 senior Sinhala students of the Faculty of Allied Sciences for attacking of group students on August 22.

However, not …

Pro-LTTE Tamil terrorists political party Tamil National Alliance (TNA) and TNA controlled Northern Provincial Council would obstruct coexistence with the majority Sinhala Buddhists by advancing its own extremist agenda by banning construction of Buddhist Temples in Northern Province is the …

ong the murkier chapters in the history of the Central Intelligence Agency, the attempt to destabilize societies around the world using religion warrants attention. Allen Dulles, who headed the CIA in its early years, was responsible for using religious groups …

The “National War Heroes Front”, a group formed to ensure proper welfare of the Armed Forces Personnel who were wounded in action, family members of the persons who were killed in action and all the servicemen who have served to …

The controversial Office of the Missing Persons Bill will have to be tabled afresh in Parliament as it had been signed by Speaker Karu Jayasuriya without including the amendments submitted by the opposition parties. This is a gross violation of …

Government Spokesman and Minister, a strong federalist who wanted to divide the country in ethnic line, Rajitha Senaratne said building Buddhist temples, placing Buddha statues under Bo-trees and at junctions by the security forces after defeating the LTTE Tamil terrorists …