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In the wake of UN Chief Ban Ki-moon’s move to investigate Sri Lanka for war crimes, a simmering dispute between India and the US over the latter’s decision not to hand over a US citizen wanted in connection with the bloody Mumbai attack in November 2008, has revealed the double standards in the global fight against terrorism. Sri Lankan government spokesman Minister G. L. Peiris recently said that the UN was using one yardstick for the powerful and another for the...
Government has egg on its face
Minister of Livestock Development R. M. C. B. Ratnayake
told the Island yesterday (March 26) that the government’s proposal to
import three million eggs from India for the Sinhala and Hindu New year
next month (April) has...
Sirasa says anti-Akon protestors
barking up the wrong tree
Despite the Tourism Ministry denying its involvement
with the now cancelled Akon concert, following last Monday’s attack on
the MTV/MBC head office at Braybrook Place for being the sponsor of the
event, it has come to light the...
