By Malinda Seneviratne
A temple is a temple is a temple. There are grand ones and humble ones, rich and poor, revered ones and just-visited ones, temples where succor is sought due to reputation of delivery and temples which are …
C. A. Chandraprema,
(Courtesy of The Island)
When this writer logged onto the Colombo US Embassy website at 8.30pm on Friday June 20, we found a statement issued on 16 June 2014 which went as follows: “The U.S. Embassy condemns …
By Malinda Senevirathna
The United Nations General Assembly on Monday has unanimously approved Prince Zeid Ra’ad Zeid al-Hussein of Jordan as the new High Commissioner for Human Rights, succeeding Navi Pillay of South Africa. Zeid is not filling big shoes. …
By Dr. Roslyn Fuller
A fighter of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) holds an ISIL flag and a weapon on a street in the city of Mosul, June 23, 2014. (Reuters / Stringer)
Dr Kamal Wickremasinghe
(Courtesy for Daily News)
The international media frenzy that followed the recent ethnic disturbances in Aluthgama and Dharga Town gave the distinct impression that the cabal of news editors of Western wire services based in New Delhi, …
India is likely to pursue a pragmatic approach toward Sri Lanka, one less shackled by Tamil Nadu politics.
By Daniel Alphonsus
June 24, 2014
Post-independence India’s foreign policy has been defined more by continuity than by change. India’s new
Sri Lanka military says attempts are in the works to divulge information on intelligence divisions to the international community under the pretext of parliamentary privileges.
Defense Ministry spokesman Brigadier Ruwan Wanigasooriya said today certain elements are attempting to reveal the
…The Abbott government in Australia; home to thousands of LTTE Tamil terrorists, Tamil extremists and numbers of LTTE front organizations is considering toughening national security laws to curb the threat posed by Australians fighting abroad with extremist groups such as …
Similar to how the United States nurtured Taliban, which later targeted strategic locations in New York, US Ambassador Michele J. Sison is nurturing the Sri Lankan Jihadist groups thus jeopardizing the security of not only Sri Lanka and the US …
Interpol has warned local intelligence agencies that the Taliban is operating within Sri Lanka.
Interpol, which is now in touch with Sri Lankan authorities on this matter, is of the belief that the international terrorist organization is using Sri Lanka …