Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka
The SLFP participation at the Ratnapura rally trumped the cooptation (‘National Government’) tactic of the SLFP Rightwing.  The anti-Mahinda tendency of the SLFP is now caught in the coils of its own contradictions. If it follows the …

(Courtesy of  The Island)
D. Chandrasiri Unawatuna
According to news item appearing in the island of March 13, 2015, the Northern Provincial Chief Minister, Mr. C. V. Wigneswaran has said that the time has come to move ahead of the …

Numbers of Sri Lankan patriotic expats, groups have expressed their displeasure on the Government decision to lift the ban of LTTE Tamil terrorists’ front organizations. Pro-LTTE and anti-Sinhala Ranil and his allies like Mangala, Rajitha, Ravi, Mano, Bahu are …

The petitions filed by eight persons challenging the constitutionality of the proposed 19th Amendment to the Constitution will be called before the Supreme Court on 1^st of April 2015.

The petitioners are Attorney-at-Law Gomin Dayasri, leader of  Pivithuru Hela …

Sri Lanka’s new government today warned that there is a real danger that the LTTE could regroup and wage another war for an independent Tamil homeland, six years after they were militarily defeated. Earlier pro- LTTE Ranil pretend that no …

Pro-LTTE Rauf Hakeem, leader of SLMC who supped and shook hands with LTTE Tamil terrorist leader Prabakaran demanding a separate district in the Eastern Province for Muslims to create a separate country in the future

Leader of the Tamil National …

Eight pro-LTTE operatives including a lawyer were taken into custody by the Borella police while producing a defamatory documentary on Sri Lanka and  Sri Lankan armed forces who defeated LTTE Tamil terrorist in May 2009 at a house in Narahenpita. …

(Courtesy of Sunday Times)

Almost a century ago — August 1920 to be precise, the United States of America passed the 19th Amendment to its Constitution. By this amendment, its Congress (Parliament) granted franchise – the vote, to adult women …

(By Courtesy of The Island March 24, 2015)

By Neville Ladduwahetty

The Island editorial of March 16, 2015 quotes Northern Province Chief Minister C. V. Wigneswaran as having stated as follows during Prime Minister Modi’s visit to Jaffna:

 “Thirteenth …