All Media Reports

Unequal positions

Mar 31, 2010

The Island, by Kuldip Nayar. NO DOUBT, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has come to have a voice at the G8, a forum of leading world powers. The very fact that India is invited to such meetings indicates the importance the country has assumed...

SCOPP functions to be delegated

Jul 25, 2009

Daily Mirror. The Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process (SCOPP) which is in the process of winding up its operations shortly said yesterday its functions would be handed over to several relevant ministries and other organizations...

SCOPP to close down

Jul 25, 2009

Daily News. The Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process (SCOPP) will permanently close down with effect from July 31 and different units under it will be operated through line ministries, its Secretary General Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha said...

Air fares to Jaffna slashed

Jul 22, 2009

Daily News. Two internal airlines flying between Colombo and Jaffna have agreed to reduce their air fares on the request of Ports and Aviation Minister Chamal Rajapaksa since the armed conflict in the North had ended and normalcy returned, a press release by the Ministry stated...

Buddhism, International Law and K.N. Jayatilleke

Jul 22, 2009

Daily News, by H.S.S. Nissanka. “In the strict sense of the word, there is no Buddhist law; there is only an influence exercised by Buddhist ethics or changes that have taken place in customs. No Buddhist authority.... has ever created or promulgated any law”...

Never the twain shall meet?

Jul 22, 2009

The Island, by Nikini Jayatunga. Through a fortuitous twist of fate at the end of May, I had the opportunity to be a witness to an event of considerable global importance; the Special Session of the UN Human Rights Council on Sri Lanka...

Sri Lanka’s lucky number

Jul 22, 2009

The Island, by Kath Noble. The campaign against the Thirteenth Amendment has been moving at top speed for the last couple of weeks. A whole lot of people who ran out of things to shout about when Prabhakaran snuffed it in that muddy swamp have latched onto the issue, trying to make opposition to its implementation seem like a natural extension of the war...

Chronology Of LTTE Terror - Part 47

Jul 22, 2009

Daily News. When the euphoria of victory dies down, and together with it the media hype ceases, when the guns do not rattle and boom anymore and the sky, the land and the sea become calm and serene, when tranquillity reigns through it is natural to live in the present moment and forget the past...

Huge progress in estate schools

Jul 22, 2009

Daily News. President Mahinda Rajapaksa stressed that the estate sector has seen tremendous development in terms of education and that teacher shortages in the estate sector have already been solved by appointing over 3600 educated youth in the area as teachers...

Sri Lanka to get $ 2.5 billion

Jul 22, 2009

Daily News. An International Monetary Fund (IMF) staff mission reached agreement with the Sri Lankan authorities on an economic program that could be supported by a 20-month Stand-By Arrangement for an amount equivalent to SDR 1.65 billion (about US$2.5 billion)...

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