| Land grabbing in our mother land: Protest stage at Vancouver city in Canada |
[Thursday, 28 June 2012, 04:30 PM] [ ] |
 Migrated Tamil people residing in various parts of the world stage protest against the illegal land grabbing programme carried out by the Lankan government in the lands of Tamil people in SriLanka. [More] |
| Work according to court order - President inform Education Ministers |
| [Thursday, 28 June 2012, 04:21 PM] |
 President ordered the Minister of Education and Higher Education to work according to the court order on Z- score issue. [More] |
| President ordered to stop rice export |
| [Thursday, 28 June 2012, 03:35 PM] |
 On the direction of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, the Controller of Import and Export has banned the exportation of paddy/rice Maha production is harvested. [More] |
| 13 districts affected fro drought |
| [Thursday, 28 June 2012, 03:32 PM] |
 The Minister of Disaster Management Mahinda Amaraweera announced 13 districts are been affected from the severe drought condition. [More] |
| Rehabilitation for Tamil political prisoners need to be granted according to their own wish: Mano Ganesan |
| [Thursday, 28 June 2012, 02:48 PM] |
 Organizer of the People Monitoring Committee and the leader of the Democratic National Alliance Mano Ganesan stated rehabilitation for Tamil political prisoners need to be granted according to their own wish and we will monitor the rehabilitation programme. [More] |
| Government is eager to hold elections in the Northern Province: Keheliya Rambukwella |
| [Thursday, 28 June 2012, 02:11 PM] |
 There government is eager to hold elections in the Northern Province but it cannot be conducted yet due to unavoidable circumstances, Media Minister Keheliya Rambukwella stated today (June 28). [More] |
| We are ready to make necessary arrangements on visit of Navi Pillai: Ministry of External Affairs |
| [Thursday, 28 June 2012, 01:58 PM] |
 The Ministry of External Affairs announced they are ready to make necessary arrangements for the arrival of UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillai. [More] |
| India to advise TNA on contesting in the Eastern Provincial council election? |
| [Thursday, 28 June 2012, 01:50 PM] |
 Tamil National Alliance would receive advice of India on contesting in the upcoming eastern provincial council election, sources said. [More] |
| Northern Province would be the second Palestine: Wickramabahu Karunaratne |
| [Thursday, 28 June 2012, 01:30 PM] |
 Nava Samasamajaya party blamed in order to full fill the requirements of India government has take over the lands of Tamil people in the Northern Province. Party also point out Northern Province would be the second Palestine of this world. [More] |
| Dates for provincial council nominations announced |
| [Thursday, 28 June 2012, 01:06 PM] |
 Nominations for the elections of the dissolved Provincial Councils are set to take place between 12th and 19th of July, a source at the department of election said. [More] |
| Mahinda government fails to grant democratic rights for people in the North: Ranil |
| [Thursday, 28 June 2012, 12:37 PM] |
 Opposition leader Ranil Wickramasinghe stated by delaying the election in the Northern Province Mahinda Rajapaksa government fails to grant democratic rights for people in the Northern Province. [More] |
| CID investigate Sridharan MP at 4th floor |
| [Thursday, 28 June 2012, 12:10 PM] |
 Officials from the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) hold special investigation against TNA parliamentarian CID hold investigation against Sridharan MP at 4th floor on comments he made during the recent political interview published in the foreign Tamil website. [More] |
| Hirunika to enter active politics |
| [Thursday, 28 June 2012, 10:19 AM] |
 Hirunika Premachandra, the daughter of late Presidential Advisor Baratha Lakshman Premachandra, said today that she would enter active politics soon. [More] |
| Malaysian People’s Justice Party member attacked during fund-raising for Lankan refugees |
| [Thursday, 28 June 2012, 10:16 AM] [] |
 Two men on a motorcycle attacked a People’s Justice Party(PKR) member during a fund-raising gathering for Sri Lankan refugees in Brickfields, Malaysia today. [More] |
| Eighty students hospitalized due to food poisoning |
| [Thursday, 28 June 2012, 10:11 AM] |
 Eighty students from a school in Hali-ela area were admitted to the Badulla General Hospital this morning after the breakfast they consumed resulted in food poisoning. [More] |
| A mid-sea clash between two groups of fishermen in Trincomalee |
| [Thursday, 28 June 2012, 10:09 AM] |
 A mid-sea clash between two groups of fishermen resulted in one of them going missing early today off Trincomalee seas. [More] |
| Canada hastens smuggling trial |
| [Thursday, 28 June 2012, 10:08 AM] |
 Canadian prosecutors announced they were forgoing a preliminary hearing and proceeding to trial for six men charged with smuggling hundreds of Tamils aboard a rickety ship into Canada. [More] |
| SL Navy should stop harassing Indian fishermen: Chief Minister to Prime Minister |
| [Thursday, 28 June 2012, 10:04 AM] |
 Observing that Indian fishermen hailing from Tamil Nadu have been “traditionally fishing” in contentious Katchatheevu, Chief Minister Jayalalithaa today urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to ask Colombo to stop its navy from harassing them. [More] |
| JVP to contest alone in the election |
| [Thursday, 28 June 2012, 05:54 AM] |
 The JVP was most likely to contest the next provincial council elections alone, its General Secretary Vijitha Herath said. [More] |
| Threats continue against Lankan journalists: Tamil news websites blocked |
| [Thursday, 28 June 2012, 05:52 AM] |
 Media organizations complaint members of the government intelligence unit continuously made various threatsagainst journalists in SriLanka. Some of Tamil websites were also blocked in the country. [More] |
| US aware on oil and biogas production of SriLanka |
| [Thursday, 28 June 2012, 03:32 AM] |
 US Ambassador to SriLanka Patricia Butenis stated US investors are much more interested to invest in the oil and biogas industry in SriLanka. [More] |
| Sri Lanka Muslin Congress politician to contest for Chief Minister candidate for Eastern PC |
| [Thursday, 28 June 2012, 03:20 AM] |
 The National Organizer of the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) and former parliamentarian Shafeek Rajabdeen announced today that he would contest as the Chief Minister candidate for the Eastern Provincial Council at the provincial council election to be held soon. [More] |
| Army attacks Wadamarachchie people |
| [Thursday, 28 June 2012, 03:01 AM] |
 Army attacks people at Wadamarachchie area, area residents said. Police officials of the point perdro police station refused to accept the complaint lodged by the area residents on this alleged attack. However due to the interference of TNA parliamentarian Appathurai Vinayagamoorthi police agreed to accept the complaint this regard. [More] |
| The government is trying to send the displaced persons from IDP camps to open prisons: JVP |
| [Thursday, 28 June 2012, 02:36 AM] |
 Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) says the government needs to ensure that the displaced people in the North are resettled in their original homes. [More] |
| Population plunge in Northern Province: Only 92,228 lives in Mullaitivu |
| [Thursday, 28 June 2012, 02:13 AM] |
 Sri Lanka's population grew only by 0.7 percent over the last ten years to a total of 20,277,597, the Preliminary Report of the 2011 Census of Population and Housing released to the Sri Lankan President Tuesday said. [More] |
Norway has asked Sri Lanka to comply with �well established international rules on diplomatic immunity� after a Colombo Court ruled that the former Norwegian Ambassador and three officials did not have immunity in a huge transaction involving an NGO. [
Members of SriLanka Army continuously warn families of misplaced personals while in the military detention. Group of unidentified personals have threatened to withdraw the case filed at the Vavuniya High Court. [
Military spokesman Ruwan Wanigasuriya said we have rescued the body of LTTE leader from Nandikadal lagoon on May 18, 2009. He is not residing in Eritrea. [
Russia decided to donate 8 helicopters to SriLanka. [
Minister Dinesh Gunawardene met Chief Incumbent of the Malwattu Chapters Tibbatuwawe Sumangala thero today. [
Tamil Genocide attack day commemorated at Queens Burg city in Toronto, Canada. [
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Thousands of Tamil national present at the Mulliwaikal mourning organized by the British Tamil Forum. [
There is little doubt that in 2009 the government of Sri Lanka pulled off one of the nastiest episodes of mass killing since the Rwandan genocide – and got away with it. Tens of thousands of civilians were massacred, with barely a trickle of Syria-like imagery emerging from the battle zone, The Australian reported. [