– Sri Lankan Americans inform Senate and House of Representatives Washington , D.C. , March 27, 2014: A large group of Sri Lankan- American voters representing multiple states gathered at Capitol Hill to meet their Members of Congress in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives on March 26. The purpose of the meeting was Read More
M. Balaganessin A team of officials from the State Fisheries Department and 54 fishermen from Kottaipattinam and Jegadapattinam left for Sri Lanka during the early hours of Friday to receive 14 boats which were seized by Sri Lankan Navy personnel in the last three months.
Legal Correspondent The Centre on Thursday asserted in the Supreme Court that the assassination of the former Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi, in 1991 was a very serious and heinous crime which could not be forgotten so easily or brushed aside.
B Kolappan DMK leader M. Karunanidhi on Friday described India’s decision to abstain from voting on the US-backed resolution in Geneva against Sri Lanka for its alleged human rights violations as “a mother strangling her own child”.
Indian envoy Dilip Sinha said India does not support the operative para 10 OF the resolution which asks for an international inquiry but encourages Sri Lanka to implement the recommendations of an internal inquiry’s report and findings.
Following a successful side event at the Palais des Nations, where “The Last Phase”, a documentary based on the lives of two former LTTE combatants and told from the point of view of Jeyawadani, a former female combatant, who grew up with the doctrine of the said terrorists group in ‘Sencholai’ and spent her youth Read More
Dear Diplomats, Lawmakers and Distinguished Leaders of World’s Nations, May I draw your attention to the above YOUTUBE link of a CBS 60-Minutes report by Christiana Amanpour depicting how the US and Britain secretly planned inhuman relocation of Diego Garcia atoll’s natives and inhabitants through deportation to Mauritius and Fiji Islands to facilitate establishing a Read More
Canadian Sri Lankans of Ottawa held a large Hands Off Sri Lanka protest rally outside USA Embassy on Tuesday March 25 2014 from 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm in subzero temperatures.
India abstained from voting on Thursday in the US-sponsored resolution in the United Nations Human Rights Council(UNHRC), which seeks to authorise the body to set up an “independent international inquiry” in Sri Lanka to probe into human rights violations during Sri Lankan civil war against LTTE in 2009.
More than 300 floating objects have been spotted close to the spot where investigators believe Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 crashed, the owner of a Thai satellite said Thursday.
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