Sri Lanka is already in the grip of election fever, the Election Commission is yet to notify the parliamentary elections. And many have decided to come forward to contest in the forthcoming General elections. Maybe the post war peace time is the reason.

Lok Sabha Speaker, Ms Meera Kumar called upon the students community to fight against discrimination and other anti social activities.

The small Sri Lankan community in Thailand gathered at the official residence of Prof. J. B. Disanayaka, ambassador to Thailand, Cambodia and Laos to celebrate the 62nd anniversary of the country’s independence.

A new political alliance is gradually taking shape in the North. It is learnt that a handful of TNA dissidents might join the TULF led by V. Anandasangaree to face the forthcoming Parliamentary General Election in Jaffna and Vanni electoral districts.

While Australian authorities have been found wanting in solving many assault cases involving Indians, the Victorian police chief Simon Overland has come up with a strange and ridiculous advice to avert such incidents. Police have been sticking to their version that not all incidents could be dubbed as racial.

Big "B" and Bollywood megastar Amitabh Bachchan today said in Kerala that the country's commercial capital was 'very healthy' and doing 'very well', when he was sought to steer clear of the controversy over Shiv Sena's 'Mumbai for Marathis' campaign.

Food and Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar’s party, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP),has come with a funny logic to avert criticism over rising sugar prices, currently ruling around Rs 40-Rs 45 per kg in the market.

The Sri Lanka High Commission in London informed that a group of around 25 protesters consisting of JVP and UNP supporters had carried out a protest opposite the Sri Lanka High Commission in London in the late afternoon, on 4th February 2010. This protest was against the results of the recently concluded Presidential Election which the protesters alleged were not acceptable to them.