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EPDP Offers Support to President Mahinda Rajapaksa with a Ten Point Program
Colombo :: Sri Lanka | about 2 hours ago
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Addressing the media personal at the Government Information Department, Minister Devananda said that the ten point program drafted by them were presented to the President and as he agreed to implement those, they came to this decision. He said that the...
Tags: Mahinda Rajapaksa, point program, tamils speaking, president mahinda, EPDP, Sri Lanka, Colombo, Dravidian peoples, Sri Lankan people, Politics, Social Issues, Douglas Devananda, Northern Province Sri Lanka, Tamil Eelam, Sinhalese people, Provinces of Sri Lanka, War Conflict
Sri Lanka Navy: The First Guardian Of The Emarald Island
Colombo :: Sri Lanka | about 2 hours ago
Credibility History of the Sri Lanka Navy runs back to as far as 1937...With the dawn of a new era, after laps of just over two years after the independence on 9th December 1950, the Navy Act, chapter 358 of the legislative enactments of Ceylon was passed writing...
Tags: Sri Lanka Navy, Royal Ceylon Navy, SL Navy, Royal Navy, Sri Lanka Customs, Sri Lankan Armed Forces, lanka navies, SLN Officers, LTTE, Ceylon Naval Volunteer Force, Sri Lanka, Colombo, Sri Lanka Armed Forces, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Sri Lankan people, Sea Tigers, Military of Sri Lanka, War Conflict, Commander of the Navy
Pondy CM becomes first to declare his assets
Colombo :: Sri Lanka | about 4 hours ago
Credibility The Puducherry Chief Minister, Mr V. Vaithilingam, on Thursday created history of sorts by openly declaring assets held by him and his wife Mrs V...He became the first Chief Minister of any state to do so under the revised code of conduct rules of the...
Tags: chief minister, Mr Vaithilingam, Sri Lanka, Colombo, Vaithilingam, Puducherry, P. Chidambaram
The "Elders" Statement on IDPs in Sri Lanka - Sadly outdated and Inaccurate – Dr. Kohona
Colombo :: Sri Lanka | about 5 hours ago
Credibility In a statement Dr. Palitha Kohona has pointed out that "The Elders Foundation, based in London, has issued unfortunate statement dated 26.11.2009 containing highly inaccurate and outdated information on the IDP situation in Sri Lanka."
Tags: Sri Lanka, Elders Foundation, LTTE, IDP, lanka government, UN Agencies, UNHCR, Colombo, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Sri Lankan people, Palitha Kohona, Internally displaced person, Persecution, Forced migration, Tamil Eelam, Sinhalese people, War Conflict
Sri Lanka: Australian reveals deplorable conditions onboard Indonesian boat
Colombo :: Sri Lanka | about 11 hours ago
Credibility Australian reveals �deplorable� conditions onboard Indonesian boat [TamilNet, Friday, 04 December 2009, 11:21 GMT] Cramped conditions, illness, poor sanitation and a lack of food are some of the many hardships being endured by 254 Tamil refugees onboard...
Tags: Indonesian Navy, Indonesian Human Rights Commission, Australian Socialist Party, Sri Lanka, tamils refugees, socialist parties, conditions onboard, Kevin Rudd, Merak, Colombo, Demography, Refugee, Social Issues, Forced migration, Tampa affair, Population, Right of asylum, Immigration to Australia
Sri Lanka Navy rescues 4 Indian fishermen
Colombo :: Sri Lanka | about 12 hours ago
Credibility Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) has said that it has rescued four Indian fishermen found drifting in their fishing boat near the Maradapuram fishing marshalling point in Karainagar Island on Wednesday. SLN gave their names as Karunanidhi Sekar (44), Ramachandiran...
Tags: Sri Lanka Navy, Jaffna peninsula, Jaffna Human Rights Commission, rehabilitation centre, Jaffna Peninsula, sri lankan, Vanni, Sri Lanka, Colombo, War Conflict, Politics, Internally displaced person, Tamil Eelam, Sri Lankan Civil War, Jaffna, Jaffna District, Politics of Sri Lanka, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Persecution, Eelam War IV, Forced migration, Sinhalese people, Vavuniya, Rohitha Bogollagama, Northern Province Sri Lanka, TamilNet, Human Interest, Kachchatheevu, Sri Lankan people, Sri Lankan Army Northern offensive, Karainagar
U.S. Prefers Regime Change in Sri Lanka: Part One - Once flirted with LTTE, now with Fonseka
Colombo :: Sri Lanka | about 14 hours ago
Credibility The now defunct Sri Lanka’s Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (Tamil Tigers) was designated a foreign terrorist organization (FTO) in the United States way back in 1998. Following protracted and serious investigations the FBI successfully cracked arms...
Tags: regime change, Sarath Fonseka, Sri Lanka, Colombo, Politics, War Conflict, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Mahinda Rajapaksa, Tamil Eelam, Sinhalese people, United National Party, Sri Lankan people, Velupillai Prabhakaran, Maithripala Sirisena, Eelam War IV, Sri Lankan Civil War, Politics of Sri Lanka
Light to Life comes alive at Crescat Boulevard
Colombo :: Sri Lanka | 1 day ago
Credibility WT is a global communications company and it is important to know that this is not JWT's Corporate Social Responsibility programme, but in fact, a CSR programme which we call ‘Community Social Responsibility’, which gives people and companies worldwide...
Tags: JWT-Asia Pacific, Rotary Sri Lanka, Crescat Boulevard, Mindshare Colombo, Sri Lanka, Colombo, Wisden Cricketers of the Year, Kumar Sangakkara, WPP Group, Mahela Jayawardene, Sinhalese people, JWT
Sri Lanka: bulk of refugees still in transit camps
Colombo :: Sri Lanka | 1 day ago
Credibility Most Sri Lankan refugees resettled from large military-run camps since the end of a 25-year civil war in May are still in transit facilities while de-mining work is finished, the government said on Friday. Human Rights and Disaster Management Minister...
Tags: Sri Lanka, Colombo, Politics, Social Issues, Sarath Fonseka, Sinhalese people, War Conflict, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Sri Lankan people, Mahinda Rajapaksa, Kilinochchi, Sri Lankan Civil War, D. A. Rajapaksa, Mahinda Samarasinghe
TNA plans to join fray, says Sivajilingam
Colombo :: Sri Lanka | 1 day ago
Credibility The Tamil National Alliance is thinking of contesting the upcoming presidential election in Sri Lanka, party MP Sivajilingam said here on Friday...Ilankai Tamilarasu Katchi candidate in the last Parliament election...Then, realizing that the Tamil people...
Tags: Sri Lankan Election Department, TNA Parliamentary Group, Mano Ganesan, presidential elections, Sri Lanka, Colombo, Politics, Sri Lankan people, Ranil Wickremasinghe, Sinhalese people, United National Party, Tamil Sri Lankans, Sarath Fonseka, TamilNet, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Electoral districts in Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapaksa, Jaffna Electoral District, Jathika Hela Urumaya, Ganesan, Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal, War Conflict, Tamil Eelam Liberation Organization, D. A. Rajapaksa, United Socialist Party, Tamil Eelam, Cabinet, International Democrat Union, Year of birth missing, Committee for a Workers International, Jaffna District
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