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Truth vs Hype: The Propaganda Wars in Srilanka

September 13, 2011 // Comments Off

From conflict zones to political fault lines, this show travels to ground zero of every big story to get to the truth and cut out the hype Truth vs Hype ...

Channel 4 suspect released

August 2, 2011 // Comments Off

A Bristish citizen charged with aiding and abetting Channel-4 make the controversial documentary on Sri Lanka which was aired recently intended to insult the armed force and the state was released after the court stated that the suspect was not involved in with the movie. When the matter was taken up for inquiry before the Colombo Chief Magistrate Rashmi Singappuli, the CID filing a report in c ...

Book on Lankan war crimes hits stands

August 2, 2011 // Comments Off

With a view to giving Tamil readers an exclusive insight and a better understanding of the controversial UN Panel report on Lankan war crimes, Chennai-based Manitham Publishers has published a book titled ‘War Criminal’ (Por Kutravali), which has reproduced the whole report in Tamil. The publisher of the 328-page book, which has already hit the stands in the city, has dedicated about 240 pa ...

Jaya to dole out Rs 1,000 monthly to Lankan Tamil refugees

August 2, 2011 // Comments Off

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa on Tuesday announced a monthly old age dole of Rs 1000 to 5,544 Lankan Tamils living in refugee camps in the state. An order to this effect has been issued by the chief minister. "The chief minister is concerned about the welfare of the Sri Lankan Tamils staying in refugee camps in the state and, therefore, in the Governor's address had also announced th ...

Govt must realize that Jaffna electors are sensitive, intelligent and wont give in to force

July 29, 2011 // Comments Off

I was not entirely surprised by the results of Saturday’s local government election. I had said I thought the government should be happy if it got 30% of the vote in the North. It got less in most places, but it managed at least 20% almost everywhere, which it should see as a good base on which to build. It also managed to do comparatively well in Kilinochchi, which is where it had concentrated ...

Release all Tamil political prisoners

July 29, 2011 // Comments Off

An agitation demanding the government to release Tamil political prisoners was held opposite the Fort Railway Station yesterday (28th). The agitation had been organized by the Socialist Youth Union (SYU). SYU organized several programmes on behalf of national unity to celebrate the ‘Fraternal Day’ that falls on 23rd July, every year. The agitation demanding the release of Tamil political pr ...

Delhi’s Lankan limp

July 29, 2011 // Comments Off

The recent local council elections in Sri Lanka threw up a surprise for President Mahinda Rajapaksa and his ruling coalition, the United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA). The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) bagged 18 out of 26 seats in the Tamil-majority northern and eastern provinces. Until the destruction of the LTTE two years ago, the TNA was under the Tigers’ sway. In the run-up to the ...

Norwegian gunman charged in closed hearing

July 25, 2011 // Comments Off

Anders Behring Breivik, the suspected far-right extremist accused of massacring as many as 93 people in Norway, made his first appearance in an Oslo court on Monday, hours after the country held a minute’s silence to mourn his victims. An Oslo district court judge ruled that the hearing, in which Mr Breivik was formally charged with Friday’s bomb and shooting attacks, would be held behind c ...

Jaffna's property prices surge as peace returns - BBC

July 25, 2011 // Comments Off

Selvarajah Ragunathan greets me warmly at his Jaffna home. His face is kindly but furrowed with sadness. He lost his brother and sister in the early years of the civil war, more than 20 years ago. Like many others, he left his rural home when the army took over the land. He worked for years in the Gulf but could not save much. Now he rents this place in the city - a quite spacious house with ...

HRC Received Over 11,000 Complaints From 2009 Till 2011 in Sri Lanka

July 21, 2011 // Comments Off

The government says the Human Rights Commission (HRC) has received 11,732 complaints on alleged human rights violations between the 2009 and June 2011. The government has informed parliament that 2,329 complaints had been solved while some of the remaining complaints had been referred to other institutions and some withdrawn by the complainants. Out of the total complaints, 3,319 had not bee ...

UNICEF supports effort to trace missing children in post-conflict Sri Lanka

July 21, 2011 // Comments Off

Jhoncy sits in the shaded courtyard of a children’s home, alone in quiet thought. Understandably, she has a lot on her mind. When we arrive, Jhoncy, 20, gets up from her chair and wanders over to greet us. We shake hands and she looks us in the eye. Her first question is, “Can you help me find my brother?” More than two years have passed since she last heard of Jhonson, who should be 17 ...

Jhoncy (centre), 20, is flanked by her sisters Nirojini,14, and Jenitta, 11,Their brother Jhonson, 17, is missing.

United States is looking towards SL North provincial council elections

July 21, 2011 // Comments Off

The US government is looking towards provincial council elections being held in the north of Sri Lanka, the US State department said. A senior US State Department official told reporters that such an election will see for the first time, an indigenous leadership in the area which was ruled by the LTTE for 30 years. “They need to organize provincial council elections up in the north so that t ...

Mahinda Rajapaksa inaugurates the construction of the International sports complex in Kilinochchi

July 21, 2011 // Comments Off

Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapakse inaugurated the construction of the first international sports complex in the north, which will be constructed at a cost of 325 million rupees in Kilinochchi. The complex will consist 8 tracks and the indoor stadium will have facilities for 25 sporting events. It will also have an international standard swimming pool and many other facilities. The presiden ...

Hillary expresses concern over Sri Lankan Tamils’ issue

July 20, 2011 // Comments Off

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday voiced concern over the plight of Internally Displaced Persons in Sri Lanka and said her country was looking at some innovative and creative ideas to break the impasse over the Sri Lankan Tamils issue. Ms. Clinton, who called on Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa at the Secretariat in Chennai, told her that U.S. was looking at some innova ...

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (L) listens to a reporter's question during a press conference at the government house in Bangkok, on July 21, 2009. Clinton arrived in Thailand for a regional security conference focusing on the North Korean nuclear threat, Myanmar's rights record and terrorism. Following a meeting with Thailand's Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva in Bangkok, Clinton is expected to travel to Phuket on July 22 for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Regional Forum (ARF), which groups the regional bloc with the United States and 16 other countries. AFP PHOTO/POOL/SAKCHAI LALIT (Photo credit should read SAKCHAI LALIT/AFP/Getty Images)

Sri Lanka Tamils: US looking at innovative ideas to break impasse, says Hillary Clinton

July 20, 2011 // Comments Off

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday voiced concern over the plight of Internally Displaced Persons in Sri Lanka and said United States was looking at some innovative and creative ideas to break the impasse over the Sri Lankan Tamils issue. Hillary, who called on Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa at the secretariat in Chennai, told her that US was looking at enabling Sri La ...

We don’t need advice from other countries: Mahinda Rajapaksa

July 20, 2011 // Comments Off

President Mahinda Rajapaksa said yesterday that the government had no intention of taking advice from Europe or any other power to resolve the country’s problems.Addressing an election rally in Kilinochchci in support of the UPFA candidates contesting the local government elections in Jaffna, he said, “We do not intend to get advice from Europe or any other power to resolve our problems. We ha ...

Newly appointed UN Coordinator visits conflict-affected North

July 20, 2011 // Comments Off

The UN says that considerable challenges remain in the north facing communities and families who are trying to rebuild and sustain decent lives. UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator, Subinay Nandy, who is on a visit to the north said that reconciliation was key to underpinning a durable peace and a secure foundation for people to re-establish their lives. The newly-appointed head of the Unit ...

Basil Rajapaksa wants to develop Neduntheevu/Delft into eco-tourist resort

July 19, 2011 // Comments Off

Economic Development minister & Presidential sibling Basil Rajapaksa has blueprint to develop Neduntheevu/Delft into an eco-tourist resort. Neduntheevu meaning long Island in Tamil is Sri Lanka’s largest off shore Island. It is in the Palk straits & is called Delft in English The oval shaped flat Island is about 50 sq km in area. It is roughly 8 km in length & 6 km in breadth.It ...

The new UN resolution will not cover the Sri Lanka conflict

July 19, 2011 // Comments Off

The United Nations says a new resolution adopted by the UN Security council last week will not cover the conflict between the military and the LTTE which ended in May 2009. The UN Security Council had adopted a resolution last week expanding the “naming and shaming” list to include parties who attack schools and hospitals. When asked by News Now.lk if the resolution will mean Sri Lanka wil ...

TNA will not withdraw from LG elections

July 19, 2011 // Comments Off

Tamil National Alliance (TNA) MP Mavai Senathirajah says that TNA will not pull out from the forthcoming local government elections despite the obstructions to their election campaign in the North and the East. "The TNA is looking forward and working hard to secure a victory in both Northern and Eastern regions," he said. Former TNA MP M. K. Sivajilingam warned that his party would pull out of ...

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