Editorial
Govt. barking up the wrong treeApril 7, 2013, 7:52 pmHigher Education Minister S. B. Dissanayake has vowed to go ahead with the government’s private university project come what may. Speaking at the...
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Ignominy of Homelessness Fear is a part of life of refugee settlements in...
Sarala (name changed), 22, says she has a dream that she's back in Jaffna. A Jaffna different from the one she left behind in 2006: Without the serrated din of gunfire, the whoosh of exploding mortar...
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Stalin Sunrise Eclipses Alagiri Will Stalin's growing clout in DMK force...
|No matter if it is going to be Annan or Thambi (the elder brother or younger), Maaman or Machaan (the uncle or the brother-in-law), we will all be doomed if we don't come together under the Thalaivar...
View ArticleTamil Nadu, diaspora youth brook no compromise on Tamil Eelam’
[TamilNet, Monday, 08 April 2013, 04:31 GMT]Tamil students and activists in Tamil Nadu and the Eezham Tamil diaspora have firmly voiced for the creation of a sovereign Tamil Eelam in their recent...
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Trichy gathering condemns “US–Indian betrayal” of Eezham Tamils
[TamilNet, Monday, 08 April 2013, 02:05 GMT]Addressing a mass gathering of students and common people in Trichy (Thiruchchi) district, Tamil Nadu, student leaders, youth activists, and veteran...
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Political interference in judicial transfers alarms Sri Lanka bar
[TamilNet, Sunday, 07 April 2013, 15:39 GMT]The Executive Committee of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL), still maintaining some level of independence, disturbed by the sudden transfer of 44...
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Colombo, Shuler, new US lobby firm, cozy alliance rumored
[TamilNet, Sunday, 07 April 2013, 00:02 GMT]Colombo has inked a lobbying and government affairs contract with the US-based "The Majority Group," after the previous lobby firm, Patton Boggs, terminated...
View ArticleUAE Tamil deportees face torture, HRW raises alarm
[TamilNet, Saturday, 06 April 2013, 14:51 GMT]United Arab Emirates (UAE) authorities should not deport 19 Tamil refugees to Sri Lanka because they would be at serious risk of torture and persecution...
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5,000 Tamils marching in London reject LLRC, demand Tamil Eelam
[TamilNet, Friday, 05 April 2013, 19:45 GMT]More than 5,000 Eezham Tamils, from all walks of life, took to the streets in London on Friday, demanding a UN referendum to determine the creation of Tamil...
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Sri Lanka's development programs will not be overturned by adverse elements -...
Mon, Apr 8, 2013, 09:08 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. Apr 08, Colombo: Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa today asserted that the government's programme to develop rural areas for...
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Buddhist extremists in Sri Lanka demand to ban screening Indian Tamil movies
Mon, Apr 8, 2013, 09:53 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. Apr 08, Colombo: Sri Lanka's Sinhala Buddhist extremist organization Ravana Balaya has decided to urge the authorities to ban the...
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Website accused of conspiracy to create dispute between Tamil minister and...
Mon, Apr 8, 2013, 10:09 pm SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. Apr 08, Colombo: The Sri Lankan government says that a website is trying to create a rift between a minority Tamil Minister and...
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Indian parliamentary group to arrive in Sri Lanka today amid calls to cancel...
Mon, Apr 8, 2013, 09:31 am SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. Apr 08, Colombo: A six-member joint parliamentary delegation comprising delegates from all Indian political parties is expected to...
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Extremist Buddhist leaders of Sri Lanka to visit US
Mon, Apr 8, 2013, 08:39 am SL Time, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka. Apr 08, Colombo: Executive committee member Sri Lanka's extremist Buddhist Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) organization Dilantha Vithanage...
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SL does not want C’wealth distorted – GL
External Affairs Minister Prof G.L.Peiris observed that the Commonwealth has to adapt to changing circumstances to avoid becoming extinct. “However, that does not mean that the character of the...
View ArticleDelhi delaying visa for SL official to Tamil Nadu?
By P K Balachandran | ENS - COLOMBO08th April 2013 08:04 AM The Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has been delaying the issue of a diplomatic visa to A Sabrullah Khan, who had been designated...
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Norochcholai out again
Kerawalapitiya also downApril 8, 2013, 9:51 pmby Ifham Nizam A number of areas were left without power following breakdowns at the Norochcholai coal fired power plant on Sunday and the Keralapitiya...
View ArticleGovt. ready to go for carbon dating of Matale grave finds
April 8, 2013, 10:00 pmBy Harischandra GunaratnaThe government was ready to go for carbon dating, after the CID handed over its report on the Matale mass grave, Director General of the Media Centre for...
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Public’s understanding, support vital to overcome intl. challenges - GL
April 8, 2013, 10:04 pmThe need of the hour is for the public of Sri Lanka to understand clearly the challenges facing the nation at international level and to stand in solidarity with the government...
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