2 Dead, 18 Hurt, Others Missing in NYC Building Collapse
Two people are dead, 18 are hurt and others are missing after two buildings collapsed following an apparent explosion triggered by a gas leak that rattled upper Manhattan on Wednesday morning.
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Canadian military involvement in Afghanistan formally ends
Understated ceremony held under heavy guard at NATO headquarters in Kabul Canadian troops capped a deadly and dangerous 12-year mission in Afghanistan on Wednesday, hauling down the Canadian flag at NATO headquarters in Kabul during a ceremony that was held under heavy guard.
Trial begins in illegal possession of explosives for supply to LTTE
IG Vanniaperumal deposes before court; In all, there are 24 prosecution witnesses Trial has begun in the case relating to alleged possession of explosive substances illegally by three Sri Lankan Tamils here for supply to the outlawed Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) at the District and Sessions Court.
Police Use Pepper Spray to Control Protesting Crowds as 4,000 Tamils with Red and Yellow Tiger flags Demonstrate Outside the UN in Geneva
Thousands of Tamils demonstrated in Geneva on Monday to protest Sri Lanka’s rejection of calls for an international probe into alleged war crimes at the end of its civil war.
Protest held against UK and US intervention in Sri Lanka affairs
A large group of the Sri Lanka community in London protested against UK and US intervention in their fight against terrorism.
GL discusses commonwealth priorities with Sharma
Minister of External Affairs Professor G.L Peiris, representing President Mahinda Rajapaksa, Chair-in-Office of the Commonwealth, at the Commonwealth Day celebrations in London, including the Multi-Faith Observance at Westminster Abbey, held discussions with Mr. Kamalesh Sharma, Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, at Marlborough House in London today (11th March 2014).
49,488 houses have been constructed in the Northern and Eastern Provinces for the IDPs
Sri Lanka intervening during the 25th Session of the Human Rights Council in an ID with the Special Rapporteur on Right to Food and Special Rapporteur on Right to Adequate Housing on 10thMarch 2014, has said 49,488 houses have been constructed in the Northern and Eastern Provinces for the IDPs under the North East Housing Read More
Malani Fonseka’s Fifty Years in Cinema and Theatre Felicitated at UNESCO
International award winning actress and Monitoring Member of Parliament of the Ministry of Culture and the Arts, the Hon. Malani Fonseka was felicitated at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in commemoration of her fiftieth year in the fields of film and theatre.
‘හර කණ්ඩායම’ ඉදිරිපත් කළ යෝජනාව ශී‍්‍ර ලංකාවේ ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවට පටහැනියි
ඇමෙරිකා එක්සත් ජනපදය, එක්සත් රාජධානිය, මුරුසිය, මොන්ටිනීග්‍රෝව සහ මැසිඩෝනියාව යන ‘හර කණ්ඩායම’ විසින් මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සිලය වෙත ඉදිරිපත් කර ඇති ශ‍්‍රී ලංකාව පිළිබඳ යෝජනාව ශ‍්‍රී ලංකාවේ අභ්‍යන්තර කටයුතුවලට බලහත්කාරයෙන් මැදිහත්වීමක් අපේක්ෂා කරන බවත් එය ශ‍්‍රී ලාංකිකයන්ගේ ස්වෛරීත්වය හා ශ‍්‍රී ලංකාවේ භෞමික අඛණ්ඩත්වයට බිඳදමන අතරම රාජ්‍ය ක‍්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ විධිවිධානයන්ට පටහැනි බවත් ශ‍්‍රී ලංකාවේ එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ ජිනීවා Read More
Ex-LTTE Leader Elilan’s wife Anandhi Sasitharan Should be Thankful to Smart Lawyer MA Sumanthiran for Silencing her in Geneva and Preventing a Major Disaster
by Gamini Gunawardane According to the headline news item of The Island’ of March 8 titled Ms. Anandhi Sasitharan, Member of Northern Provincial Council had alleged that Mr. Sumanthiran MP had silenced her in Geneva. Her allegation is that the MP had ” deprived of the opportunity to address UNRC members at a recent crucial Read More