Northern Province Governor H.M.G.S. Palihakkara has told Jaffna Divisional Secretariat that required state assistance should be provided to all those who had returned to the Jaffna peninsula seeking resettlement regardless of their ethnicity. Governor has emphasized that those wanting to …

The Europeans are waking up. They are beginning to realize that money cannot buy happiness, that capitalism has not provided mental solace, that meat consumption has caused endless health issues and their searching minds have discovered the richness in the …

KALINGA SENEVIRATNE

On January 8 this year Sri Lanka’s powerful president Mahinda Rajapakse was defeated in a shock vote propelled by a “peoples’ revolution” focused on endemic political corruption in the country. The winner Maitripala Sirisena has presented to …

The Governor of Northern Province, Mr. H.M.G.S Palihakkara, who was one of the eight panellists appointed by former President Mahinda Rajapaksa to the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC), has instructed the Government Agents (Gas) in the Northern Province to …

Following numbers of requests made on the deforestation in Eastern province by two politicians in the ruling party, the HE the President Maithreepala Sirisena has taken some actions to stop such deforestations.

Following are the full texts of the letters …

Traitor Bahu; Defamation on Lion Flag

A complaint was lodged at Police Head Quarters yesterday by Pani Wewala and Gallege Punyawardan Aginst Wickramabahu Karunarathna for his defamatory and derogatory remarks about the Lion and the Sinhale Flag.

In the Hiru …

ON  BALTIMORE AND SRI LANKA 

The USA, the key mover of the UNHCR Resolution seeking investigation into the crimes said to have committed during the last phase of the war 2009 –based on speculative and questionable reports- is sending a …

In the late 1970s when President J R Jayawardena took a pro-US stand Sri Lanka became saddled with a made-in-India Tamil-militant terrorism drawing upon India’s influence over Tamils from both sides of the Palk Strait that continues to last despite …

Former President Chandrika Kumaratunga of Sri Lanka said, that the dismantling of Sinhala majoritarian politics, government structures and laws, is essential for the establishment of durable peace in the island nation. The anti-Sinhala group lead by Ranil, Chandrika, Rajitha, Mangala …

By Bandu de Silva

            28^th April 1952 was the day on which the Japanese Peace Treaty officially signed by 48 countries from those which attended the San Francisco Conference of September held in the previous year came into force. …