By N. Sathiya Moorthy More than a month after the DMK withdrew support to the Manmohan Singh government over the Sri Lanka vote issue at the UNHRC session in Geneva, no one is talking about the ‘Tamil Nadu factor’ influencing India’s Sri Lanka policy. If anything, after a decade and more, a government at the [...]
Khurshid calls GL to discuss 13th Amendment Joint opposition protests intensify against govt President Mahinda Rajapaksa is now facing continuous headaches in the form of the possible re-entry into politics by former President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunge and a joint opposition struggle against the government. All these issues haunted Rajapaksa last week with indications of them [...]
Veteran trade unionist Alavi Moulana would have experienced a feeling of déjà vu on Wednesday as he walked along with thousands of supporters through the Fort and Pettah to denounce what they called attempts by ‘international saboteurs who were attempting to sabotage the progress of the country’ and to show the world that ‘the people [...]
By Dr. Devanesan Nesiah The focus of my article in The Sunday Leader of 5 May was on the need for Northern Provincial representation. It now looks as if those elections may be held in September 2013. I will elaborate on the likely consequences of representation, or the lack of it, drawing on past experience in [...]
TUs have given leadership, people have a responsibility to come forward JVP politburo member and head of the National Trade Union Center (NTUC), K. D. Lalkantha says that the strike called on the 21st by the Coordinating Committee for a Joint Trade Union Alliance demanding the withdrawal of electricity tariff increase is a unique campaign [...]
By Jehan Perera There have been weeklong rehearsals at Galle Face Green to prepare for the victory day celebrations of May 19. This is special to Sri Lanka. Not all countries would celebrate the end of a war that pits two armies representing two sections of their people as a victory. An example would be [...]
By Ravi Perera “He did nothing common or mean, upon that memorable scene…” - Andrew Marvell S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike, one of our most controversial prime ministers is commonly credited with the aphorism ‘a river does not flow backwards’. Since on our gravity bound planet no human being from the time of Adam to [...]
By Gamini Weerakoon The conventional belief was that the military at best should be confined to barracks or be on battlefields but after the much celebrated victory over terrorism the forces have not been demobilized as is usual in other countries or found civilian jobs but appear to move into civilian projects under the Ministry [...]
By Gamini Weerakoon Nawaz Sharif, the stocky 63-year-old businessman, performed the impossible last week by being elected for the third time a prime minister in a country where the political terrain is considered the roughest and most precarious in the entire world. He has withstood allegations of corruption amounting to billions of dollars and rupees, [...]
Russia has sent sophsiticated anti-ship missiles to Syria, US media report The New York Times quotes unnamed US officials as saying the missiles could be used to counter any potential future foreign military intervention in Syria. Without confirming details, Russia’s foreign minister said Russian supplies did not break any international rules. It comes amid growing alarm [...]
