By Neville Ladduwahetty

( Courtesy of The Island)

When Sri Lanka’s President met India’s newly elected Prime Minister Modi at the latter’s inaugural ceremony, it was widely reported that Mr. Modi had called for the “early and full implementation of …

Archaeologists in the Northern Province have affirmed that the ruins recovered from Shivanagar, Uriththirapuram in Kilinochchi, containing slates, stacks of ancient bricks, Sri Paada symbols, etc, belong to the historic Polonnaruwa era.

20 Sri Lanka Light Infantry (SLLI) troops of …

The government should do away with the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, without succumbing to the pressures exerted by India, the Asgiriya Chapter said yesterday.

Committee Member of the Asgiriya Chapter, Medagama Dhammananda Thera, calling the 13th Amendment the root …

(Courtesy of  Guardian)

Police to investigate after increase in intimidation of Phil Shiner, his family and law firm since Iraq cases went to The Hague.

Phil Shiner said the abuse directed at his firm for ‘upholding the law in a …

No information has been received to date as to the Muslims kidnapped by the LTTE Tamil terrorists at Kurukkalmadam , Batticaloa, say the relatives of the missing Muslim individuals. Majority of these relatives who volunteered to testify before the commission  …

Long years ago I was associated with an organization called ‘The National Movement Against Terrorism’ (NMAT). This was at a time when those who called for a military offensive to rid the country of the terrorist menace were called racists, …

 A Translation of the Article published in the Sinhala ‘Divaina’ newspaper of May 11, 2014

At a time when archeological sites and artifacts were still being discovered as evidence of Buddhist heritage in the Jaffna Peninsula, the dark omen of …

According to the news reports the Government is planning to introduce a Bill to settle the land issues pertaining displaced persons on account of the terrorist activities of the LTTE. The legislation , the Prescription (special provisions ) Bill as …

Aranthalawa Massacre in Sri Lanka was the massacre of 33 Buddhist monks, most of them young novice monks, and four civilians by Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam terrorist organization on June 2, 1987 close to the village of Aranthalawa, in …

Jaffna Mayor Ms. Yogeshwari Patkunarajah  refused to allow a motion brought by pro-LTTE Tamil terrorist TNA members to be passed at the Jaffna Municipal Council calling for those killed in Mullivaikal during the final stages of the war to be …