Nalin de Silva

(Courtesy of Daily News)

It is difficult to convince the Western educated people in general that knowledge is relative and not absolute, and further that knowledge is relative to the five senses, mind and the culture. Even …

LABOR’S last foreign minister, Bob Carr, has ridiculed refugee advocates’ “urban mythology” about endemic persecution of Tamils in Sri Lanka, saying the previous government “couldn’t find a single case” of returned asylum-seekers being abused by authorities.

Mr Carr, who retired …

I COULDN’T help reading over and over The Australian’s editorial of July 7 that said: “Former prime minister Malcolm Fraser doesn’t help his standing by likening the return of Tamils to Sri Lanka to handing over Jewish refugees to …

By D.B.S.Jeyaraj

The Malaysian Police in a sweeping counter terrorist operation launched simultaneously on Thursday July 3rd 2014 arrested four persons of Sri Lankan origin suspected of terrorist activity with alleged links to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam(LTTE) and …

The ministry said in a statement that US Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labour Tom Malinowski is not welcome in Bahrain.

It said he intervened in the country’s domestic affairs by holding meetings with some groups …

The police have begun recording statements from Muslims over a mass grave in Kaluwanchikudy suspected to contain the remains of Muslims killed by the LTTE Tamil terrorists. 27 family members of Muslims reported missing during the time the LTTE Tamil …

A government Minister and National Freedom Front leader Wimal Weerawansa has accused the US Ambassador to Sri Lanka Ms. Michele J. Sison is  working  with the UNP leadership to destabilize the country. Weerawansa claimed that the UNP leadership through some …

A new Pew Research Center poll shows that the number of Americans who think the United States “stands above all other countries” has declined from 38 percent three years ago to 28 percent today. A strong majority of Americans (58 …