Former Sri Lankan Foreign minister Lakshman Kadirgamar was killed on 12 August 2005 by a sniper of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam(LTTE) concealed in the house of an unsuspecting neighbour.

From a toehold then, to a freehold today, Israel has turned international law, UN mechanisms for a safer world and street ethics, on its head. It demolishes Palestinian homes and occupies their lands, ...

Chemmani, a sparsely populated area in the northern peninsula of Jaffna has in recent times acquired a somewhat dubious image. Just as Nallur in Jaffna is associated positively in public perception ...

The Chemmani mass grave site in Jaffna district,which has drawn domestic and international attention, is putting to test the Anura Kumara Dissanayake government’s pledge to address Tamil people’s ...

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Stalin’s Brother Mu.Ka. Muthu Passes Away in Chennai at the age of 77; DMK leader Kalaigner Karunanidhi’s eldest son Muthu was a Singer and Film Actor Who Tried to Emulate ...

Bradman Weerakoon : The Man for all Seasons who Served Nine Sri Lankan Premiers and Presidents with Dedication.

The first major assassination of a prominent political leader in Sri Lanka known formerly as Ceylon was in September 1959. The Country was shocked when the serving Prime minister SWRD Bandaranaike was ...

By P.M.Amza (The writer is former Sri Lanka Ambassador to EU, Belgium, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, and former Deputy High Commissioner in Chennai.) For successive Sri Lankan Governments and the people of ...

Veteran actor B Saroja Devi, known for her work in Kannada, Tamil and Telugu cinema, breathed her last at the age of 87 on Monday (July 14) in Bengaluru.. The actor was reportedly suffering from ...

The Ilankai Thamil Arasuk Katchi (ITAK)wants President Anura Kumara Dissanayake to take urgent and decisive action regarding the exhumation of human remains at Chemmani in Jaffna.

“Thamizh Arasuk Katchi” in Trouble : Jaffna MP Sivagnanam Shritharan’s Insidious Campaign Against his own party ITAK.

Will Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu be Convicted on Corruption Charges of Bribery,Fraud and Breach of Trust or Simply be let off the Hook?