Ending a ten-month deadlock the Constitutional Council yesterday finally and unanimously approved the appointment of Senior Deputy Auditor General Samudika Jayaratne as the new Auditor General.

The Ilankai Tamil Arasu Katchchi (ITAK) has appointed Batticaloa District MP Shanakiyan Rasamanickam as its new Parliamentary Group leader, replacing Jaffna District MP Sivagnanam Shritharan following ...

Under international law, territorial sovereignty is absolute in criminal jurisdiction. Foreign police officers possess no inherent authority to investigate crimes, collect evidence, interview ...

With the Northern coastal village in deep sleep mode and empty narrow lanes that lead to the coast of Palk Straits, they used to carry their massive – 30 feet (10 yards) long- 3D kite, designed by ...

South Asia watchers are mourning the passing of two veteran members of their tribe in the second week of January. Both were veteran journalists with storied careers, a vast network of sources and ...

(Veteran Journalist Sir Mark Tully Passed away on January 25th at the age of 90 in New Delhi. This article written by Chandani Kirinde for the “Sunday Times”in 2003 is posted here as tribute to the ...

Travelling to Tamil villages and rebuilding small, old mud-brick shrines in gleaming stone, the Chola dowager Sembiyan Mahadevi – Rajaraja’s great-aunt – effectively “rebranded” the family as the ...

Today (Jan 31) is the birthday of eminent constitutional lawyer, academic and politician Dr. Neelakandan Tiruchelvam. Neelan as he was popularly known would have completed eighty years , had he been ...

Sishtla Sreeramamurthy Janaki popularly known as S. Janaki is widely praised as the “Nightingale of the South” .In a splendid career spanning over sixty years Janaki has sung over 20,000 songs for ...

Lakshman Kadirgamar’s 18th death anniversary was observed last Saturday. The former foreign minister fell victim to a Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam(LTTE) sniper in Colombo on 12 August 2005.

The Ilankai Thamil Arasuk Katchi(ITAK) known in English as the Federal Party will celebrate its 75th Birthday in December this year. The premier political party of the Sri Lankan Tamil people known as ...

This concerned a parliamentarian whose seat was challenged by a social activist on the basis that she was the holder of a British passport thus ceasing to be a citizen of Sri Lanka and by virtue of ...