University students stage mass protest against SAITM

Controversy following order by PM

The government has ordered the removal of a mosque from an area it says is sacred to the country’s majority Buddhists. The order comes two days after Buddhist monks led a crowd trying to storm the mosque in the central town of Dambulla. Prime Minister DM Jayaratne says the mosque has simply been ordered to relocate to another part of the area. But the incident has angered senior Muslim politicians. The BBC’s Charles Haviland in Colombo says this statement by the prime minister appears to hav

22 Apr, 2012

Tamils do not want Ealam

Tamils in Sri Lanka do not want a separate state or Ealam, an Indian parliamentary delegation wich visited Sri Lanka last week told reporters in Chennai. The Deccan Herald quoted CPM?Member of Parliament? T.K Rangarajan, who was part of the 15-member Indian Parliamentary delegation, as saying that in their interactions with leaders of all the Tamil political parties, ?nobody demanded any separate Tamil Eelam?. Significantly, even the seniormost Tamil leader R. Sampanthan had stressed the Tamil

23 Apr, 2012

Sanath, 3 others want Ministerial posts

Former cricketer and SLFP parliamentarian Sanath Jayasuriya, Galle district parliamentarian Nishantha Muttuhettigama and two others have written to President Mahinda Rajapaksa seeking Ministerial posts. Muttuhettigama told the Colombo Gazette that the four parliamentarians, which also includes Sarath Weerasekera and Lakshman Wasantha Perera, have told the President that they should be given Ministerial post considering their performance at the last parliamentary elections. The letter was hande

21 Apr, 2012