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September 8, 2014, 10:26 pm A report by Marga Institute and the Consortium of Humanitarian Agencies has contradicted earlier reports by the UN and human rights groups that placed the blame for civilian deaths largely on government forces, Reuters has..

Dispelling the belief that Buddhism did not have a firm footing in Tamil Nadu barring a few pockets, excavations of Buddhist Vihara and a temple at Kaveripumpattinam and hundreds of stone sculptures and bronzes by ASI from over 125 sites..

The ITAK has a new leader. He is Mavai Senathirajah. It is a perfect time to bring questions out into the open and seek answers to satisfy our doubts. Top on that list is the question is the ITAK constitution..

Ban Ki Moon the UN Secretary General appointed an Advisory Panel to ADVISE HIM on the final phase of the war in Sri Lanka. That advisory panel was not an officially UN General Assembly or UN Security Council endorsed panel..

Roopa Kavya (Photo Poetry) a collection of pictorial poems in Sinhala and English published in Lanka Viththi, the first Sinhala newspaper published in the United Kingdom, was launched at the Mahaweli Centre Auditorium, Colombo on Thursday September 4 amidst a..

The Sri Lankan civil war has been one of the great tragedies of our times. It has touched India directly in the deaths of 1,200-odd Indian soldiers, more than three times that number were injured in the course of our..

Kumar Chellappan (Courtesy of  Daily Pioneer) September 01, 2014 The hypocrisy of TNA leaders was exposed recently by their decision to boycott the 150th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda in Colombo. India must not give weightage to this combine which..

Our political pundits, black-coated coconut-crackos at Hulftsdorp, NGOs, academics, media commentators and frustrated politicos hanging around  in the opposition benches for decades, waiting to overthrow elected governments, have been announcing the death of Lady Democracy in Sri Lanka so many..

Noam Chomsky, the left-wing critic of America, pointed out that the Western media falls in line with the foreign policy of the US State Department. Even the prestigious New York Times is no exception. For instance, Atul Keshap, Deputy Assistant Secretary for South..

The ambassador of Sri Lanka to US Hon. Prasad Kariyawasam  had responded to the biased and illogical article appeared in the New York Times explaining the illegality of UN panel appointed by the UNHRC lead by ethnic Tamil high commissioner..