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President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s U-turn : Pre-poll Propaganda and Post-Election Performance.

Dissanayake was sworn in as Sri Lanka’s ninth executive president on 23 September 2024 in a simple ceremony at the Presidential secretariat in Colombo. Speaking at his swearing in event, Anura Kumara ...
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Tamil Nadu fishers must stop their illegal fishing and Bottom Trawling in Sri Lankan Northern Waters. Long suffering Tamil fishermen should be able to rebuild their lives and ...

A main reason for this is due to the fact that fishing is no longer a traditional occupation in Tamil Nadu. Many of the castes engaged in fishing for generations have gained upward mobility through ...
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The Katchatheevu Ownership Controversy is Diverting Attention away from the Real Problem of Indian Illegal Fishers Bottom Trawling in Sri Lanka’s Northern Territorial Waters.

Forced into exile 25 years ago and compelled to stay away in order to stay alive, journalist D.B.S. Jeyaraj always dreamt of returning to Sri Lanka. That flame of hope flickered occasionally, as the ...
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Former Chief Minister of merged North Eastern Province Annamalai Varadaraja Perumal says he will tryto create awareness among Tamils about the need to protect the provincial ...

There is a widespread perception that the Government is in no hurry to hold the Provincial Council Elections following a significant drop in the votes of the National People’s Power (NPP) at the ...
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“Thamizh Arasuk Katchi” in Trouble : Jaffna MP Sivagnanam Shritharan’s Insidious Campaign Against his own party ITAK.

Retiring Supreme Court Judge Gamini Amarasekara made several important observations while addressing court recently. According to newspaper reports, Justice Amarasekara emphasised that while external ...
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How Tiger Intelligence Chief “Pottu Ammaan” , His Wife and their Three Sons Died in the Final Phase of the War.

Shanmuganathan Sivashankar alias “Pottu Ammaan”, the former intelligence chief of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is a keen topic of discussion these days within a Europe based segment of ...
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Tamil parties have started a give-and-take approach in the formation of local authorities, keeping in mind their individual interests.

Interestingly, there were three similarities between the Opposition political parties in southern Sri Lanka and the Tamil political parties in the north and east at last month’s Local Government (LG) ...
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The Long Distance Friendship Between Emperor Asoka of Pataliputra (Patna) and King Devanambiyatissa of Anuradhapura Began Many Years Before the Arrival of Mahinda on Mihintale ...

(Chandani Kirinde traces the close friendship between Emperor Asoka and King Devanampiyatissa that led to the introduction of Buddhism to this land) India’s Emperor Asoka and King Devanampiyatissa of ...
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Malini Fonseka : Why the “Queen of Sinhala Cinema” Became a UPFA National List Parliamentarian.

The first Sinhala language feature film “Kadawunu Poronduwa”(Broken Promise) premiered on 21 January 1947 at the Kingsley theatre in Colombo. Four months after that historic event ,on 30 April 1947, a ...
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Success of Ilankai Thamil Arasuk Katchi (ITAK) at the North-Eastern Local Govt Elections Vindicates Party Secretary M.A. Sumanthiran.

The Jathika Vimukthi Peramuna(JVP) led National People’s Power(NPP) recorded a landslide victory at the Parliamentary elections held in November 2024. The personal popularity of President Anura Kumara ...
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President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s National People’s Power (NPP) Govt survives and is sustained only by the weakness of the collective Opposition.

President Anura Kumara Dissanayaka’s ringing claim during the National People’s Power (NPP) May Day rally at the Galle Face Green this Thursday that his Government had ‘established the Rule of Law in ...
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“There can be no peace without freedom of religion, freedom of thought, freedom of expression and respect for the views of others.Nor is peace possible without true ...

On Easter Sunday 2025, Pope Francis did not deliver his speech in person, though he briefly greeted the faithful with a brief “Brothers and Sisters, Happy Easter”. The pope’s traditio, “urbi et orbi,” ...