Lycamobile – recently one of the Conservative party’s top donors – is threatened with dissolution after failing to file accounts. A company which is one of the Conservative party’s largest donors paid no corporation tax for three years and could be dissolved by Companies House for failing to file accounts. Lycamobile, an international firm that [...]

Claiming that a political solution or devolution of powers to Tamil areas in Sri Lanka remained merely on paper, DMK chief M Karunanidhi on Tuesday made a fresh demand for a separate ‘Eelam’ (homeland) for Lankan Tamils and sought the Union Government’s help on the issue. “Sri Lankan Tamils will not be satisfied with anything [...]

A new inter-ethnic and inter-confessional conflict has broken out In Sri Lanka – a country where a bloody civil war had ended only three years ago. On Friday, a crowd led by Buddhist monks gathered near a mosque building in the town of Dambulla, thus interfering with the Muslims’ Friday prayer. Muslims were forced to [...]

The Sri Lankan delegation to Washington DC in May, in response to an invitation by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to further engage on reconciliation processes and accountability issues will include SL External Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris, Ministry of External Affairs Monitoring MP SajinVaasGunewardane, UPFA MP and SL president son NamalRajapaksa and SL Presidential Secretary [...]

To celebrate 100 days to go to the London 2012 Olympic Games, London’s communities show us how they’ll welcome the world in their own unique ways. Tamil is the first in London Olympic 2012. Find out more at http://www.london2012.com  

A British Parliamentarian has called for a debate in the British parliament on the diplomatic immunity of the defence attaché at Sri Lanka’s high commission in London, Major General Prasanna De Silva. British MP Siobhain McDonagh told the House of Commons on Thursday that if the attaché is allowed to leave without being questioned, that [...]

Key human right organizations have expressed displeasure over the US Ambassador at Large for War Crimes, Stephen J. Rapp’s recent report submitted to the US Congress on Sri Lanka’s current human rights crisis. The State Department’s Office of Global Criminal Justice headed by the US Ambassador at Large for War Crimes, Stephen J. Rapp suggested [...]

I would like to extend my warmest wishes to the British Tamil community on this day of celebrating Chithirai Tiru-naal (Tamil New year). This important occasion provides us with the opportunity to renew the ties that bring us all together in building a prosperous community based on the bonds of family and social responsibility. It [...]

The DMK is likely to withdraw its representative from the all-party parliamentary delegation scheduled to leave for Colombo on April 16 on a six-day tour of Sri Lanka to assess the rehabilitation of the internally displaced Tamils. The delegation will be led by senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj. Sources said DMK chief M Karunanidhi was [...]

Aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has denied abandoning traumatised war survivors in Sri Lanka by closing down a mental health project in the north. Despite “massive needs”, the decision was made because MSF no longer deems it an emergency, the medical charity said. MSF announced on April 5 that it was shutting down a [...]

On behalf of President Obama and the people of the United States, I am delighted to send best wishes to Sri Lankans around the world as you celebrate Tamil and Sinhala New Year, Mrs Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State, the USA said in a statement. This celebration brings people together to renew bonds of friendship and [...]

In Sri Lanka, a leading FSP activist Premakumar Gunaratnam will speak to the media in Sydney, Australia today (Apr. 11) regarding his abduction, said central committee member of the party Pubudu Jayagoda.  Mr. Gunaratnam went missing last week, but was found and immediately deported to Australia.  Speaking to the media in Colombo yesterday, Mr. Jayagoda [...]

In an email interview, Suren Surendiran of Global Tamil Forum, explained why they decided to take legal proceedings against the secretary of state Rt. Hon. William Hague calling on him for a judicial review by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) to declare Major General Prasanna Silva who is the current defence attaché at the [...]

The US State Department Office of Global Criminal Justice (GCJ), formerly the Office of War Crimes Issues (WCI), led by Ambassador-at-Large Stephen Rapp, has submitted a report on Sri Lanka to the U.S Congress. Rapp, who visited Sri Lanka in February this year, has noted in the report efforts taken by the Sri Lankan government [...]

The US says there is no scheduled visit for the TNA with secretary of state Hillary Clinton. According to the US embassy in Colombo, recent media reports incorrectly state that Secretary Clinton has invited the TNA to visit Washington. The Secretary invited Minister GL Peiris to Washington on May 18 and welcomes that visit. While [...]