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by Shamindra Ferdinando The recent floods again highlighted the failure on the part of the government to strengthen Local Government authorities to provide assistance to the affected people. Twenty three people died and over 100,000 were affected during the past..

Whole Island celebrated the 9th Vijayagrahanaya over the LTTE Tamil terrorist except pro-minority Ranil and the Yahapalana government. Several celebrations were organized by number of civil society and religious groups. While Yahapalana government suspending the Vijayagrahanaya state sponsored celebration it allowed..

(Courtesy of The Island) By Shamindra Ferdinando   The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) side-stepped The Island query whether documents that had been destroyed as reported in a section of the British and other media included diplomatic cables originating from..

Former UNP MP flays TNA for not seeking clarification from govt. (Courtesy of The Island) Former UNP MP and media personality J. Sri Ranga has accused the four-party Tamil National Alliance (TNA) and other Tamil MPs of conveniently remaining silent..

As ever increase of extremisms and pro-LTTE terrorism in North and East two provinces and mood of anti-National sentiment among many NGOs and Parliamentary Members specially during the Vijayagrahanaya period of 18th  and 19th May   President Sirisena had directed police..

(Courtesy of The Guardian) Destruction of 1978-1980 files means there is no record of UK government’s work at the time Britain’s Foreign Office destroyed almost 200 files on Sri Lanka dating from the start of a Tamil Tiger uprising during which MI5 and..

(Courtesy of The Island) The Global Sri Lanka Forum (GSLF) celebrated Sri Lanka’s triumph over terrorism in May, 2009 with a public gathering in Dubai. Former Foreign Secretary Palitha Kohina addressed the gathering. On the invitation of the GSLF, Mrs..

The National University Teacher’s Association, NUTA has issued an open letter to Vice Chancellor of  University of Jaffna, Prof. Ratnam Vigneswaran about another extremist and racial involvement of the Jaffna University students during the recent so called “Mullivaikkal Remembrance Day”..

Last week, the UK Parliament paid tribute to the Sri Lankan community living in the United Kingdom with the first-ever meeting pertaining to Sri Lanka, one of the most auspicious days in the British calendar last week. For the first..

The Global Sri Lankan Forum , GSLF released a strongly worded media brief by condemning the anti-national statement issued by the government cabinet spokesman pro-minority Rajitha Senarathna. Widespread condemnations and protest demonstrations are raising Island wide against the corrupted and..