Several Sinhala students were injured critically when racially motivated Tamil students and extremist Tamil villagers attacked them in the Jaffna University premises. Politically and racially motivated Tamil extremists undergraduates opposed to Sinhala traditional function organized within the science faculty of …

Six Sinhala undergraduates were seriously injured when racially motivated Tamil students attacked them in the Jaffna University. Politically and racially motivated Tamil extremists undergraduates opposed to any events which reflects the Sinhala cultures such as Kandyan dancing, Sinhala costumes within …

Six Sinhala undergraduates were injured when racially motivated Tamil students attacked them in factions over welcoming freshers to the Jaffna University with a Sinhala up-country dancing. Politically and racially motivated Tamil extremists undergraduates opposed to any events which reflects the …

By Senaka Weeraratna

http://www.vgweb.org/unethicalconversion/port_rep.htm

The Portuguese while pursuing a policy of destruction and plunder of Buddhist Temples held out various inducements for Buddhists to convert to Christianity. Conversion meant a sure means of exemption from taxes due to the …

(Courtesy of The Island)

By Neville Ladduwahetty

Sri Lanka is currently engaged in the process of replacing the existing executive presidential system with a Parliamentary system of government. The compulsion for the change is primarily because executive presidential systems are …

People of the northern province are not interested in federalism, says Chairman, Constitutional Reforms Committee, Lal Wijenayake.

Addressing the media yesterday at Visumpaya’ Wijenayake said according to a study his outfit had conducted, it was only the northern politicians …

By Malinda Seneviratne –

by Hamid Dabashi

Hamid Dabashi is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University.

Who elected Tony Blair as the prime minister of the United Kingdom for more than a decade (1997-2007)? Did Iraqis vote …

Natasha Gooneratne,

External Affairs Minister, Mangala Samaraweera in ‘media hug’ with Nisha Biswal (US Asst Sec-of-State) and Tom Malinowski (Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labour)

The paper argues that strong US intervention in Sri Lanka …

The Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government is now initiating Ram diplomacy in the land of Ravana, following the sanction of a multi-crore project promoting the mythological significance of Ramayana.

In a recent move to develop infrastructure at …