Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera assured expatriates in Los Angeles that Sri Lanka would remain territorially an undivided country while keeping the door open for federalism.

“A federal state is not a separate state. I assure you Sri Lanka will remain …

The Supreme Court yesterday refused leave to proceed with the fundamental rights violation petition filed by retired rear admiral Sarath Weerasekera, former MP and Professor Wimaladharma Abeywickrame, challenging that the present administration was not a national government and could not …

A book by Dr. Gunadasa Amarasekara

A COMMENT BY PROF. G.L. PEIRIS

Dr. Gunadasa Amarasekara’s work, ‘Towards a Civilization State’, is a very timely analysis of the multiple crises in which our society is at present embroiled. The central aim …

“On July 17, 2010, houses and cultivation of families living in Shasthrawela and Ragamwela villages were torched and the community was assaulted by a group of unidentifiable armed men and forcibly evicted from their lands. The local police initially prevented …

The Yahapalana appointed Chief Justice K. Sripavan, a Tamil over other Sinhala candidates yesterday declined to be a member of the Bench hearing the fundamental rights petition on the vandalisation of a Buddhist Shrine at Kanagarayankulam in Mankulam.

The Bench …

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Northern Province Chief Minister C. V. Wigneswaran has apparently got setting the cat among the pigeons down to a fine art. This time around, he has drawn heavy flak for some incendiary remarks he made …

The Chief Minister of the Central Province has stated that Hindu and Muslim encroachment as well as Christianization has to end. Right now. The Chief Minister of the Western Province, not to be outdone, has echoed the same sentiments. Rev …

Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) strongly condemned the racist statements which had been made by the extremist Northern Province Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswaran.

SLFP Senior Vice Chairman Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva said the statement made by Wigneswaran ‘Tamils, wake …

Reading The Island newspaper report on the Chief Minister of the Northern Province, C. V. Wigneswaran’s call to the Tamils to join the ‘Ezhuha Tamil!’ or ‘Tamils Rise’ rally in Jaffna today is disturbing, given the brazen attempt to mobilize …

Mr. Udaya Gammanpila said today he was looking forward for the arrest of Northern Province Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswaran, who spearheaded a demonstration called ‘Eluga Tamil’ (Let Tamils Rise) by violating the Public Property Act by the so called Yahapalana …