Defence secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa has said it is not appropriate to view the north of the country, over which a separatist war was fought, as a predominantly Tamil area. Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, who many credit with defeating Tamil rebels, also told the BBC there were few civilian casualties in the war's closing phase. Human rights groups say tens of thousands …

  The Zionist Jewish entity of Israel, which has been sneaking into Sri Lanka time and again, and expelled time and again, has found a firm foothold in Colombo now. The island’s growing ties with Israel have become cause for serious concern among many, especially within the beleaguered Muslim community, which fears this may spell disaster for them.   This …

  An Egyptian physics student has successfully created a new propulsion device that could accelerate space probes and artificial satellites through quantum physics and chemical reactions instead of the current radioactive-based jets and ordinary rocket engines. Aisha Mustafa, who has entered the active research area of spacecraft propulsion by her newly invented device, told the governmental EGYNews agency that she …

  Canada's banking system has been the subject of international praise from economists grappling with global turmoil, but one 12-year-old girl begs to differ. Victoria Grant of Cambridge, Ont. is earning a reputation as a financial pundit after her tirade against her homeland's borrowing practices went viral on YouTube. Grant is already a veteran of the financial lecture circuit, but …

 “Even though they have been living for twenty years in Colombo, away from home, none can claim that leaving their home town and settling in Colombo have gained any advantage. It has been agony and problems and difficulties one after another. The pain of living in refugee camp worsened when the entire compound was inundated with water when Tsunami hit …