2019-08-21 08:43:00
As the SLPP National Convention was taking place in Colombo, an intriguing dialogue was taking place on a social media platform between two people this writer seldom agrees with, but nonetheless acknowledges their commitment to their convictions,..
2019-08-20 21:28:00
Indian economist and Nobel laureate Amartya Sen has slammed the Narendra Modi-led government’s decision to revoke occupied Kashmir’s special status, saying that India had ’’lost the reputation’’ of being the world’s first non-Western country to adopt a democratic system...
2019-08-20 16:45:00
Sri Lanka’s President on Monday named war veteran Shavendra Silva as its army chief, drawing sharp criticism from the United States and the United Nations over the appointment of an officer who has been accused of serious human rights violations...
2019-08-18 13:26:00
About four years later, the Avant Garde issue has come to the fore again. The IMO 8107036 MV Avant Garde was seized by the Navy on October 6, 2015, along with automatic, semi-automatic firearms and ammunition, off the coast of Galle Harbor...
2019-08-17 13:30:00
The best biography of Vallabhbhai Patel has been written by Rajmohan Gandhi. Based on full access to Patel’s own papers, it is a rich account of his life and struggles, set against the context of the historical forces which shaped them...
2019-08-17 12:20:00
The thrice-banned RSS (once during British times) is the new establishment. Courtesy its acolyte, Prime Minister Narendra Modi...
2019-08-17 09:39:00
Greenland has said it is ’’not for sale’’ after President Donald Trump stated that he would like the US to buy the world’s biggest island...
2019-08-16 17:20:00
’’There are no new Palestinian patients,’’ said Dr. Raz Somech, the director of general pediatrics at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan. “Many of them are being sent to Jordan or Egypt, and many more don’t even make it to those places...
2019-08-16 13:33:00
The late John F. Kennedy described politics as a “noble adventure, an adventure in which one joins hands with the masses for the service of man”. Not that the Kennedys didn’t play “politricks” in their heyday...
2019-08-15 14:10:00
The announcement in Colombo on Sunday by former Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa that his brother Gotabaya Rajapaksa will be his party’s presidential candidate in the election due to be held before December 8 electrifies the politics in the island country...
2019-08-14 20:06:00
What is a diaspora? The terminology originated from ancient Greek, meaning to “scatter / spread”. It defines a scattered population separated from its indigenous territories, in an unknown host territory where they are cordially welcomed...
2019-08-13 13:23:00
Until a few months ago, Mohammed Iliyas, was doing a thriving business in his hardware shop in western Sri Lanka. Now trade has plummeted and his losses are mounting...
2019-08-12 16:45:00
Mangala Samaraweera may be only a fashion designer but he was pretty serious when he in a FB posting said- Truth be told, the entire Rajapaksa family represents thuggery, corruption, deception and a flagrant disdain for democratic values and independent institutions...
2019-08-10 23:50:00
Upon abolishing political autonomy given to Kashmir state of India via revoking sector 370 of the Constitution, the future of a whole subcontinent is being steered to the edge of a mass decimation...
2019-08-10 14:08:00
The Hindu-supremacist government of India, headed by Narendra Modi, has just carried out a coup of India’s constitution and with Kashmir’s autonomy...
2019-08-09 19:45:00
The Gandhi family appears to be losing its grip on the party with the continuing delay in choosing a successor to Rahul Gandhi...
2019-08-09 15:20:00
Illegal loggers are ramping up a “brutal, fast” assault on the Brazilian Amazon with the blessing of the far-right president Jair Bolsonaro, the sacked head of the government agency tasked with monitoring deforestation has warned...
2019-08-09 15:00:00
From the inception of Islam, each and every groups and sects of Islam has been threatening and oppressing the people who do not accept the conditions imposed by Islam...
2019-08-08 19:54:00
An Indian transgender couple who both underwent sex re-assignment have tied the knot in a traditional Bengali ceremony, in what is believed to be the state’s first “rainbow wedding”...
2019-08-07 14:09:00
Pakistan has vowed to take any measure necessary to “stand by” people in Kashmir, where an unprecedented communications blackout continues a day after the Indian government said it would revoke the territory’s special status and divide it in two...
2019-08-06 00:22:00
It is a great pleasure and privilege for me to have this opportunity to deliver the valedictory speech at this international conference on ‘Peace and harmony through literature: Thirukkural,’ a universal literature. Thank you for inviting me...
2019-08-05 14:10:00
Three years after the referendum, and hovering on the brink of a no-deal Brexit, international journalists share their thoughts...
2019-08-05 13:36:00
Two menaces have stalked Sri Lanka since our independence. One is communal politics to win elections and the other is stoking racial resentments. Mahinda Rajapaksa and family did just that to stay in power and finally people got sick of them and threw them out in disgust...
2019-08-05 08:32:00
Conservative vying to win back Bedford seat said taxpayers south of the border are ‘fleeced’ by Scots...
2019-08-04 08:51:00
Walking along a dirt road on Sri Lanka’s south-west coast late one afternoon in 2013, I met an elderly woman pottering in her garden...
2019-08-03 11:36:00
In the early morning on the beach in Tasmania the water is puckered by wind. The sun has created a drawbridge across the sea and onto the silver sand. Occasional bunches of crinkled seaweed rest in their shadows and the serenity is palpable...
2019-08-03 11:08:00
Scientists claim to have created the world’s first human-monkey hybrid using groundbreaking scientific techniques...
2019-08-02 16:00:00
I recently said to a Tamil Teacher - not to mark rights and wrongs but to connect ‘what’ (happened) with ‘why’ (it happened). Often we resort to this when we do not have comfort for our pain through other pathways. Knowing why helps cure the causes within our control. Other causes do not result in deep pain...
2019-08-02 15:26:00
All of us have relations when we are born. As per my mind, a relationship is a pathway that connects our body to Oneness in another...
2019-08-01 09:59:00
’’Stop the Cycle of Violence and Genocide against Tamils in Sri Lanka,’’ panel discussion by BTF in association with APPG for Tamils...
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